Flying Buttresses: Pushing Thrust Outward

The side view of a building with high clerestory windows. A series of slanting stone arches extend from the high wall surface, landing on independent buttress piers outside, with a small pinnacle pressing down on the top of each pier to add weight. Gaps are left between the flying buttresses, allowing sunlight to pass through and cast diagonal shadows on the wall. The structural logic is clearly legible. Avoid: making the buttresses solid pilasters attached to the wall, removing the small pinnacles on top of the piers, making the slope of the buttresses too gentle or too steep, depicting the buttresses as decorative openwork trellises.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟高側窗建築的側面。一排斜撐的石拱從高處的牆面伸出,落在外側獨立的墩柱上,墩柱頂端壓著一座小尖塔增加重量。扶壁之間留出空隙,陽光從縫中穿過在牆上留下斜影。結構邏輯一眼可讀。避免:把扶壁貼在牆上做成實心壁柱、拿掉墩柱頂端的小尖塔、讓扶壁的斜度太緩或太陡、把扶壁畫成裝飾性的鏤空花架。