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  2. Monolithic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Monolithic architecture describes buildings which are carved, cast or excavated from a single piece of material, historically from rock. The most basic form of monolithic architecture is a rock-cut building, such as the monolithic churches of Ethiopia built by the Zagwe dynasty, or the Pancha Rathas in India. These are cut out of solid rock, to ...

  3. Concrete shell - Wikipedia

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    A concrete shell, also commonly called thin shell concrete structure, is a structure composed of a relatively thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses. The shells are most commonly monolithic domes, but may also take the form of hyperbolic paraboloids, ellipsoids, cylindrical sections, or some combination ...

  4. Lift slab construction - Wikipedia

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    Axon and elevation diagram of lift slab construction. Lift slab construction (also called the Youtz-Slick Method) is a method of constructing concrete buildings by casting the floor or roof slab on top of the previous slab and then raising (jacking) the slab up with hydraulic jacks. This method of construction allows for a large portion of the ...

  5. Shell (structure) - Wikipedia

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    Concrete shell structures, often cast as a monolithic dome or stressed ribbon bridge or saddle roof; Lattice shell structures, also called gridshell structures, often in the form of a geodesic dome or a hyperboloid structure; Membrane structures, which include fabric structures and other tensile structures, cable domes, and pneumatic structures.

  6. Monolith (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Monolithic architecture, a style of construction in which a building is carved, cast or excavated from a single piece of material; Monolithic column, column made from one single piece of stone; Monolithic dome, structure cast in one piece over a form, made of concrete or similar structural material

  7. Rock-cut architecture - Wikipedia

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    Monolithic architecture is often rock-cut, as in the Ellora Kailasanathar Temple, but monolithic structures may also be cast of artificial material, such as concrete. The largest monolithic statue in the world, the Gommateshwara statue of Bahubali at Shravanabelagola in the Indian state of Karnataka, was carved in 983 CE from a single block of ...

  8. Binishell - Wikipedia

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    The original Binishell method needs expensive and sophisticated equipment but it remains as one of the fastest and cost-effective ways to construct dome-shaped, monolithic, and reinforced shell structures. [1]

  9. Monolithic dome - Wikipedia

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    A monolithic dome (from Greek mono- and -lithic, meaning "one stone") is a thin-shell structure cast in a one-piece form. The form may be permanent or temporary and may or may not remain part of the finished structure. Monolithic domes are a form of monolithic architecture.