barrel vault

There is no grand lobby with barrel vault ceiling; instead, the viewer is greeted by the sloping walls and gentle asymmetries of a rough-hewn cave, our most archaic form of shelter.

In his work, for example, he was as intrigued by the barrel vault — a form common to Roman architecture — as he was by Japanese concepts of in-between space, known as ma.

Johnson’s heavy-handed barrel vault has been replaced by a delicate glass V-shaped butterfly roof.

Kahn played with natural light in the Fort Worth building, suffused with skylights, reflectors and cycloid barrel vaults.

Masaccio’s painting shows Christ on the cross in front of a chapel with a barrel vault—but of course the chapel does not exist; it is entirely a painted chapel.