- 著者
- 竹内 晧
- 出版者
- 日本建築学会
- 雑誌
- 日本建築学会計画系論文集 (ISSN:13404210)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.71, no.606, pp.191-198, 2006-08-30 (Released:2017-02-17)
In Finland many wooden churches were built in the 17^<th> and 18^<th> centuries. They are all comer-timbered buildings. The buildings, which I am interested in, have been built in the block-pillar style. Professor N. E. Wickwerg wrote in his book that the block-pillar style is very valuable from the architectural and artistic point of view. According to Wickberg, block-pillar churches were built only in the Bothnian area, mainly on the west coast of Finland. The corner-timbered building style was suitable for a normal house, but it was not originally suitable for the church with a large interior space. The block-pillar style solved this problem with a highly developed technique. It was constructed by block-pillars connected to beams and also A-shaped roof trusses. With this construction technique, the block-pillar style made long walls and high wooden vaults possible. I think that this technique was epoch-making advancement in the history of the Finnish wooden churches.
- 著者
- 竹内 晧
- 出版者
- 日本建築学会
- 雑誌
- 日本建築学会計画系論文集 (ISSN:13404210)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.72, no.612, pp.145-151, 2007
I wrote a report about the characteristics of Bothnian block-pillar churches in the 17^<th> century in my previous paper. Many of these churches were constructed using a highly developed technique during this time. But in Sweden, the style of churches changed to cruciform churches at the end of the 17^<th> century. This trend came to Finland and many cruciform churches were built with the corner-timbered technique. Although the block-pillar churches became virtually obsolete, the technique was still being applied to cruciform churches as late as the middle of the 18^<th> century. Thus the cruciform churches developed into larger and higher structures. I will try to clarify how the block-pillar technique was applied to cruciform churches. I believe this technique played a very significant role in the history of Finnish wooden churches during the 17^<th> and 18^<th> centuries.