What is oculus?
Oculus is a round opening in the structure of the building, either built into the ceiling or walls. In ancient times, stretching back to the 16th century architecture, or now the Italian pantheon, a temple built by a rag in Rome around 120 to 124 A.D., it was often an open structure that allowed sunlight and rain from above. Modern designs of Oculus in 20
Example of remarkable house 20 th attempt to mimic the example of Oculus in the pantheon is structuresand San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in northern California, USA. The Oculus structure dominates the top of the building as a central, flat and circular design of the outside, which has a fine brick similar to the clear glass formula that overlaps it and is placed at an angle to the sun instead of being parallel to the ground. The Oculus structure was designed by the Swiss architect Mario Botta, who managed the reconstruction of the building in 1995 and used his interest in Roman architecture during the process.
Oculus Architecture had something natural revival in many areas. In New York, New York, buildings in the US, such as the original Merchant bank on the fifth Avenue, a vaulted peak that is surrounded by Oculus portals looking at the city. The building is transformed into residential housing and reflects many other buildings in the city with oculi-shaped windows, including some that have an oval design.
While a modern purpose for many circular windows or ceiling openings is to bring natural light, in the past also served more prosaic functioni. It is assumed that many of them have been built into the temple roofs as a way to direct smoke from the building that was formed during ceremonies. Oculus was also allegedly popular during the Edwardian Architecture period at the beginning of the 20th years in England, when gas lighting still produced smoke before the widespread use of electricity. Such designs included the oeil-de-boeuf window. oeil-de-boeuf was a window with a vertical bull, often covered with glazed lead glass, which was originally used in the French castle in Versailles under the reign of King Louis XIV from 1661 to 1708.