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Proportional Systems in the Design of the Cathedral of St. George of the Greeks, Cyprus

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2016)

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The cathedral of St. George of the Greeks was built in the 14th–15th c. in Famagusta, Cyprus to accommodate the religious needs of the Greek orthodox community living under a Frankish aristocracy. Its design is a hybrid of western European and Greek orthodox architectural traditions which reflect the political and social circumstances of its creation. This paper examines the degree to which the underlying design methods employed can be extrapolated from the physical remains of the building, the historical sources bearing upon its interpretation and comparisons with related structures. Results are presented of a recent (2016) photogrammetric survey of the building and a new digital reconstruction of the church derived from it. These are used to quantify, assess and illustrate a three dimensional armature of regulatory proportions which it is proposed for reasons of ecclesiastical philosophy and practical execution, were employed to shape the building’s physical form.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the technical and equipment support of De Montfort University in undertaking this research.

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  1. The Digital Building Heritage Group, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

    Douglas Cawthorne & Romylos Irodotou

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Correspondence to Douglas Cawthorne .

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  1. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Marinos Ioannides

  2. Arlington, VA, USA

    Eleanor Fink

  3. School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Antonia Moropoulou

  4. Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin, Germany

    Monika Hagedorn-Saupe

  5. Promoter s.r.l., Peccioli, Italy

    Antonella Fresa

  6. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Gunnar Liestøl

  7. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Vlatka Rajcic

  8. INSA, Strasbourg, France

    Pierre Grussenmeyer

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Cawthorne, D., Irodotou, R. (2016). Proportional Systems in the Design of the Cathedral of St. George of the Greeks, Cyprus. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48496-9_3

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