Tile vault

A tile vault is a vault built setting thin bricks by their edges with quick plaster, following a predefined curve to create a thin and light vault.^[1]

The oldest tiled vaults date back to Islamic architecture.

Not to be confused with pitched-brick vaults.

References

↑ https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/research/natural-materials-and-structures/masonry-vaulting/masonry-vaulting

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