Comprehensive analysis of architectural heritage (part 2)

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Late period architectural aspect

As mentioned earlier, our legacy has several turning points and, accordingly, several periods. Now let's touch on the time after the departure of the Progenitor Gods. For some time their management role was carried out by direct heirs - the Children of the Gods or Assa, but gradually they became less and less. In all cases, ordinary people already played a key role during this period, representing the majority of the population. The concept of "Antique" architecture continues, it fully adapts to the rulers and subjects, and also acquires greater diversity and uniqueness. The manufacturability of construction does not disappear anywhere, as evidenced by the volumes, quality and complexity of objects of that time. This is no longer the power that the first ancestors possessed, but people did not need more for that period. The world at this time, which is now considered to be the early and middle Middle Ages, is still global and similar precisely to the ancient society.

The flood of the 17th century brings dramatic changes to all areas of life, it has already been discussed earlier. Assy disappears, many ancient knowledge, former opportunities disappear along with a large number of the population. But humanity is being restored in a new quality, alternativeists call it an inter-flood civilization. Everything is once again tied to knowledge and technologies that have changed the vector. In modern times, metal structures began to play an important role, energy was obtained in other ways, technology has also changed. Now all this is called a fantastic "steam-punk", but the reality was something like this. If we do not touch the mechanisms and technical devices, then in the field of construction, there have been no big changes. Actually, objects of this time in large mass exist to this day. The main distinguishing features, in comparison with the architecture of the previous period, are structural elements for obtaining atmospheric electricity and communications. They are expressed by what is now believed to be "decorative" roof details such as spiers, metal cornices, railings and other things. Brick construction is becoming widespread, but its role is still small, large-block technologies are still available and more profitable.

The next flood of the 19th century is not as catastrophic as the previous one, but leaves its mark. The world is once again being restored, in almost the same form. The role of steel structures takes an even greater place; technologies that are not advertised today allow a lot to be done. Brick building occupies a leading position, this area is developing and becoming predominant. The old possibilities are no longer available, but the needs remain. From bricks, and sometimes even wood, buildings are successfully created that have antique motives, but do not completely copy them. Steel structures are more related to engineering structures: towers and bridges, although there were also public buildings that were unique in their kind, but their age was not long.

The climate is making a big difference. The resulting change of seasons and the appearance of winter forces to heat and rebuild old objects, and build new ones taking into account the cold. But more on that later. Against the background of all the changes, it is surprising that the classic concept is preserved in any conditions and with different technologies. People, in spite of everything, continue the ancient tradition. This is quite objective, since this style is filled with images of the macro- and microcosm, somewhat different from house carvings, but carrying real information. This topic requires a separate article, so we will not dwell on it.

Technologies

Continuing a comprehensive analysis of architecture, it is possible to identify different construction technologies in the same periods. Once again, we will distribute them according to the level of consciousness and the type of intelligent beings. To begin with, it should be recalled that labor costs in construction are always proportional to technological equipment. Logically, this can be described as follows: a society of any level can spend only part of its resources on construction, for example, 4 units out of 10, this allows maintaining stability and security. Exceeding and going beyond the limits of their capabilities depletes the state and makes its economy with politics ineffective. But this is exactly what historians offer us, showing the work of millions of slaves on the epic construction sites of antiquity. And yet, at each new technological level, the percentage of resource units remains, but the result of labor increases. Let's draw an analogy with physical strength - the blow of a child at half strength and the same proportionally blow of an adult are significantly different. 4 units out of 10 are not given by chance, since sanity will never force people to implement unbearable projects.

Gods and Children of Gods

Let's start with the top tier of technology. The result of the construction activities of the Gods are the so-called ancient cities with monumental structures made of stone and having the highest artistic and technological performance. The geometric accuracy of buildings is not available to modern construction equipment and is comparable to computer models placed in the real world. The volume of building materials involved, in many facilities, is also beyond the capacity of the current industry. Based on the experience of alternative researchers, a number of technologies are identified: stone casting, cold softening of rocks, the use of force fields, virtual design, electronic geodesy, global earthworks, large-scale mining and transportation of building materials.

The main place is occupied by the construction of stone structures. To begin with, we will describe the proposed construction option, which explains all the unsolvable questions. A 3D virtual model of the building is created. This allows you to create artistic design elements of any complexity, for example, column capitals, with their subsequent copying. It also becomes possible to accurately work out all complex joints of structures, which can not always be foreseen in flat drawings. The precise calculation of geometric distortion, which delights scientists in the Parthenon building, becomes a simple task. Further, on the ground, a force field is formed corresponding to the building. We will not talk about the means. The field is filled with the material of the liquid state, this is the same stone casting. In parallel, the object is divided into blocks, in order to avoid cracks in the monolith, that is, expansion joints are made. This technology can be correctly compared with the printing of modern 3D printers, combined with automated concrete pumps. With this approach to business, the stone is the optimal material that can be given any shape, its quantity is inexhaustible, and the variety of forms obtained is not limited by anything. There is no need to supplement objects with steel and wood, it is easier for the printer to print with one material. The detailed revision may have been done by hand, but the bulk was created in a mechanized and computerized manner.

The technology provides an objective opportunity to replicate the most complex pediments, carved beams, sculptures and other details, without involving the redundant labor of thousands of slaves, who, by the way, still need to be trained. Most of the structures do not need additional finishing, since it was incorporated in them from the very beginning. Scientists are perplexed by the impeccable seams of the masonry, the accuracy of the mating of parts, the ideal surfaces and the prohibitive massiveness of the structures, just because they are looking from the wrong side. By the way, this approach to business allows not resorting to the participation of lifting mechanisms at all.

In ancient cities, the ability of the First Ancestors, and possibly people, is observed to completely level large areas of the earth's surface. These are ideal conditions for urban planning, which are difficult to achieve today. How it was done is unknown, we can only see the result. Some researchers have noticed huge flat areas at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, but this is a separate topic. Here you can also mention geodesy, without which it is impossible to build large objects such as star fortresses or simply marking the quarters of large cities. And geodetic surveys for the construction of aqueducts, requiring the construction of relief profiles for tens of kilometers, will be a serious task for us. Currently, satellite navigation and terrain scanning are used to calculate large objects. It is quite possible that similar means existed before.

People

The knowledge and means that exist in a society of people living apart from the cities of the Gods are given to them to the extent necessary for a safe life and the effective supply of the patron-rulers with the necessary resources. But such an order took place only before the departure of the Gods and Demigods from the active game. It is now difficult to judge about such distant times, since structures of insignificance in scale are not preserved. It can only be assumed that the human world of that period is similar to the cultural Middle Ages characteristic of any nation. During this long period, the technological level was under control and in a stable state. Information was dosed, but the general level of development was higher than the medieval one, from the official point of view.

With the departure of the Gods, their knowledge and capabilities partially go to the human population and are universally applied whenever possible, but much more modestly. The world was in this state, that is, it used ancient knowledge, until the end of the 19th century, with temporary pauses for the next wars and disasters. Technologies of this time can be approximately compared with modern industry, if you remove restrictions from it, increase productivity several times and improve quality. The amount of work that can be observed in stone and wooden castles, fortresses, settlements, cities and technological structures is possible only with the participation of large processing enterprises and developed mining and transport. Energy sources, methods of obtaining and processing resources, installation and finishing differed from modern ones in the direction of optimization, but the very principle of mass industrial production, tied to the operation of a global network of enterprises, is similar to the present one. It is noteworthy that after the exit of the Gods from the active game, people retained the concept of the so-called classical architecture. Perhaps it is the highest achievement in construction, or simply there was an elementary imitation and copying of experience.

For a certain time, wooden architecture prevailed on the territory of Russia - accordingly, there were powerful sawmills and related infrastructure. Erection of wooden fortresses by hand is an infinitely long and laborious process with low efficiency. The technological chain includes the extraction of material, transportation, processing, drying, sawing and other operations that require equipment and premises. No one built from a damp forest with one ax, in the open air, as science explains. And the manufacture of many parts: beams, planks and beams without mechanical sawmills would turn into an endless punishment. In parallel with wooden architecture, white-stone construction takes place. This is a controversial question. It could use polymer concrete technology, since the building blocks are very large and their transportation is not profitable. The option with quarries is also acceptable, since traces of machine processing, that is, sawing, are noticeable on many limestone blocks. By the way, similar things are also observed on some columns and other details of classic buildings. This may also indicate their reconstruction at a later time.

Brick production played an important role. The direction received the greatest splash in the 18-19 centuries, but the construction volumes of such a short period are colossal. The presence of large production facilities is beyond doubt. Otherwise, the whole country had to deal with the manual molding and firing of bricks in manufactory furnaces, in relation to the scale of its use. Of greatest interest is the level of skill of the bricklayers, who were taught no less than the current ones, and possibly more. And the technology of creating brick vaults, in which each stone has a unique geometry with hyperparabolic planes, has no intelligible explanation even among alternative people. The only assumption is cold softening of the finished masonry, followed by laying on the formwork. It is possible that generators giving the Hutchinson effect were used. People have inherited many more amazing technologies from the Gods, but we will talk about them in the following materials.

Humanized archanthropus

Reasonable, to a lesser extent than people, copied and imitated everyone to the best of their ability. Official science in no way hides their structures. The technological level of this stratum of the population was for a long time at the stage of subsistence farming. There are no automated production facilities and precise calculations, so the structures are modest in size and simple in execution, there is no need to talk about artistic taste. Although over time there is more and more rapprochement with people, accordingly, the differences become less. It can be assumed that 1000 years ago there is no longer a clear difference between the former archantropists and people, both in technology and in blood.

Almost all finds attributed to the people of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, to a greater extent, belong to the former archantropians. By himself, a person is not capable of inventing anything, knowledge comes from the outside on an external initiative or in the course of observation. It is their simple and rough log cabins that are found during excavations on our territory. It was here that banal manual labor was used with the appropriate quality and productivity. In this case, it makes no sense to describe any special technologies, they are familiar to us from the school history course about the primitive communal system. We can only make a clarification that some peoples in other areas of our world did not get the opportunity to merge with developed humanity and are still at the initial stage of development, which once again proves the impossibility of learning from nowhere.

Climatic aspect

Ancient antique architecture, spread all over the world, has an interesting property. All of it is designed, from a constructive point of view, for warm, tropical and subtropical climates. This rule applies both to the cities of southern Europe, for example, Rome, and to the north of the continent, for example, St. Petersburg. All structures, especially for public use, are made of stone and have large internal spaces, which does not contribute to heat retention. The stone has a low thermal conductivity and rather even cools, and warm air in spacious rooms rises up, leaving the floor cold. In addition to this, there are other features that speak of the world's warm climate in the past, which will be discussed below.

No heating systems in ancient and more modern antique buildings were originally planned. The idea of a fireplace heating, typical of European culture, does not stand up to criticism, since the effect of spot heating is obtained. The stoves, in turn, heat with their own mass, and even then only a small volume of the room. An experienced architect pre-sets the oven into the project, which does not violate the layout and decoration. This cannot be said about a typical installation of stoves in St. Petersburg, which looks like a sudden and heavy addition in the corner. In general, in ancient and medieval Europe, initially there was no heating, there were braziers, but this is in terms of kitchens. Nowadays, even Italy and Greece heat buildings in winter, although they are located in warm latitudes. The researcher Artyom Voitenkov reveals this topic in more detail. Large and tall windows also do not help to retain heat. And, for example, stained-glass windows, which are widely used in Europe, consist of one plane at all, and do not have a warming air gap.

Also, the presence of the winter season affects the external, that is, open, spaces of buildings. In a cold climate, when everything is covered with snow for half the year, it makes no sense to organize open terraces, colonnades, porticoes and similar things. But all the same St. Petersburg abounds in them. In addition, in almost all monuments of that architecture, in the initial projects, there are no vestibules and sluice spaces that hold back the heat inside. Tambours, like stoves, leave the feeling of being late additions than the original idea of the project. The warm climate is indicated by the small slope angles of the roofs. Many of them have been rebuilt over time, and more recently. It's no secret that snow rolls better off steeper slopes, which are not typical of classical architecture.

You can find many more building solutions that contradict the presence of the cold season. These include: a large number of fountains, sidewalks under eaves (danger of icicles falling), many water channels that freeze in winter, etc. If the climate on the Mediterranean coast still corresponds to the architecture, as well as in the cities of the so-called colonial countries of the southern hemisphere, which have antique buildings, then there are discrepancies with the north of Eurasia. To say that the architects of the 17-19th centuries copied the antique style to the detriment of comfort and rationality is very naive, people have always had common sense. All these facts were presented for one purpose. Even 200 years ago, the change of seasons of the year was not so clearly manifested, there were no negative temperatures, which made it possible to build the same cities all over the world. However, after the last flood that caused climate change, the classical architecture is once again being adapted. Heat-retaining buildings are found throughout the country, especially in Siberia, for example, in Krasnoyarsk.

Chronological aspect

If we consider a sufficiently extended series of events, several thousand years long, there is a general decline in all spheres with periodic rises, but the general movement is directed downward. We will reduce the details of the past, so as not to make this material endless, we will trace only the key points. With each new war and accompanying natural disasters, the number and power of the Gods decreased significantly. There is also information that there was, figuratively speaking, the fall, the temptation of the eclipse of the mind of many. After the complete departure of the Gods and the transfer of control into the hands of their children, technologies and knowledge become more accessible to cultural humanity, the rigid division of living disappears, the policy changes. Despite the fact that the first ancestors disappeared a long time ago, their direct descendants held out at least until about the 16-17th century. This is evidenced by some archaeological finds, in size suitable for 6-meter people, such as weapons, books and even skeletons. Together with the Children of the Gods, technologies, cities and culture were preserved, but not as majestic as they were originally. During this interesting period, now called the inter-Flood, people are actively using ancient knowledge, a new high-tech world is being built, the legacy of which has survived to this day.

One of the turning points was the flood of the 17th century, which destroyed all the most ancient architectural heritage of the ancestors, at least in Europe. The consequences of these events are preserved in the paintings of the Ruinist artists. It is naive to believe that these plots are the inventions of a whole generation; people simply fixed reality. Their work shows how the ordinary population living outside the cities is trying to master the monumental ruins and adapt them to their needs. The cities depicted by the "Ruinists", although they look classical, but their architecture is much more monumental and more diverse than the antiquity we are familiar with. Despite the fact that people possessed the gifted production skills, means and knowledge, their world was also destroyed, the population turned into refugees.

Over the course of the century, the ancient cities diverge to a greater extent for building materials and are rebuilt, the population is being restored, industry and other spheres of life are put in order - a period of inter-flood teniko-mechanical civilization is underway. The legacy of the Gods becomes common property, but the world is partially ruled by their descendants, the balance is maintained. By the 18th century, there are no more Children of the Gods, no backward in development, "under-culture" peoples, only some representatives of the authorities have drops of blood of the ancestors, not very noticeable externally. Architecture takes on a familiar look that bears the names of the classicism, baroque or empire styles. Part of the saved knowledge still allows to quickly and efficiently erect a large number of objects, including those that are difficult for engineering purposes. During this period, metal structures and other innovations that were absent earlier began to be used in construction.

The 19th century flood becomes the penultimate point in terms of technology and the capabilities of humanity as a whole. After these events, the architecture significantly loses ground and becomes simpler. Stone casting technologies are no longer used, the priority of technologies changes direction towards small and piece elements. Cities are everywhere covered with a multi-meter layer of mud and clay, and therefore, construction is being replaced by reconstruction. At the end of the 19th century, modernity and the most complex metal structures and brick construction flourished, but this no longer matters. The First World War is the final touch, erasing ancient culture along with art and technology.

Transformation

After numerous upheavals, as a result of which people were left without high patrons and rulers, architecture naturally changed its directional vector. As already mentioned, initially, in the closed cities of the Gods, conditions suitable for them were provided for people, for example, proportional housing on the upper floors. Now it is difficult to find examples of it, but it can easily be assumed that the favorableness of its size and zoning was at a high level. There was no need to save on materials and forces, so architecture expressed prosperity and wealth. In the future, such structures could pass into the category of palaces, but this is not so important now. Each new change of power increasingly squeezed the comfort and aesthetics of city houses. At the same time, we do not take into account the 20th century here, in which the situation has worsened even more.

Studying the housing of an old, antediluvian building in the cities of Europe, and especially St. Petersburg, one gets the feeling of multi-storey working barracks with beautiful facades. Obviously, the values have changed, not in favor of the person's personality. The beauty of the main streets was still supported by the attractive decoration of one visible wall, but the courtyards, and even more so the premises, are all the ugly realities of the time. Many of these homes were redeveloped in the 20th century, so no conclusions should be drawn about the current deplorable state. But a look at the general view of the development speaks of the desire to accommodate as many people as possible, or rather the working class, on the minimum territory.

Perhaps the locals do not catch these sensations, but people living in more free and cleaner conditions perfectly perceive the mood, if not slave, then hopeless working quarters, the purpose of the population's life was to work in production and nothing more. All this means that you should not admire the "beautiful" streets of old cities, behind their screens is a completely different filling of the realities of the 19th century. From the point of view of ecology and eniology, these places are completely unsuitable for a healthy life and have little in common with the ancient cities of the Gods.

Conclusion

The activity of free researchers is caused, first of all, by dissatisfaction with the official point of view on our heritage in all its spheres. There is no truth anywhere, also in the field of architecture. Evaluation of fields of activity by modern professionals of different profiles allows you to distinguish between truth and fiction. Now the globality of the world of the past, the diversity of its population, the technological level and a complex series of events filled with ups and downs, are becoming more and more obvious. The so-called "antique style", the real name of which is unknown, for thousands of years was the leading one in the world power. It was undergoing changes, but the overall concept was stable. Technologies and building materials changed, as well as the climate and technical equipment, but people always managed to adapt the building canon for any factors. Architecture in any period is proportional to the possibilities, type and level of the population, and also meets current needs, observing rationality and not undermining the economy. The most important thing is to draw conclusions that allow for practical action. Now the value system in general and architecture in particular is moving in a previously unknown direction, since the continuity of tradition and generations has been broken. In this material, only a generalized image of our heritage is given, manifested through the prism of architecture. In the future, this topic should be continued from the practical side.