Pantheon Roof Structure

The ceiling of the pantheon dome has five symmetrical rows of 28 coffers sunken panels and a round oculus opening at the center.

Pantheon roof structure.

The panthéon is a cruciform building with a high dome over the crossing and lower saucer shaped domes covered by a sloping roof over the four arms. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda which is under a coffered concrete dome with a central opening oculus to the sky. The pantheon still has the longest span constructed before the 19th century. Pantheon sections left picture ward perkins 6 right picture.

Most historians however claim that emperor marcus vipsanius agrippa built the first pantheon in 27 bc a rectilinear t shaped structure 144 feet by 66 feet 44m x 20m with masonry walls and a pitched timber roof. Almost two thousand years after it was built the pantheon s dome is still the world s largest unreinforced concrete dome. To provide details on this complex configuration the following figures show the building with its two ring foundation voids in the walls and the step ring and coffer arrangement in the dome. There are still things that are free in this world and the admission fee into the pantheon is one of them.

The facade like that of the roman pantheon is formed by a porch of corinthian columns and triangular pediment attached to the ends of the eastern arm. Sunlight streaming through the oculus illuminates the pantheon rotunda. It burned in the great fire of 80 ad was rebuilt by emperor domitian but was struck by lightening and burned again in 110 ad. With an age of almost two thousand years old the pantheon is the world s largest unreinforced concrete dome structure with the height and the diameter of the interior being the same dimension 43 3 meters or 142 feet.

Panthéon the panthéon paris. That is correct there is no charge to visit and enter this historical building.