Banding (architecture)
The surface of a component is called banded if it consists of horizontal strips (bands) that differ in material, color and / or depth. The banding can be created by painting, layering stone or rusting .
Types of banding
The surface of a banded member actually or apparently consists of different layers that form horizontal stripes (bands) on the surface of the member. The layer structure can be created by applying different colors, by layering different types of stone or by increasing the joint thickness between the stone layers ( rusting ).
Banding by painting
The simplest type of banding is when the facade is structured by horizontal stripes with different color applications.
Banding by layering
The banding can also be created by rock layers that differ in material, color and / or structure.
Different colored natural stone
The “Pisan Romanesque” ( Protenaissance ) is a standard example of banding by layering different colored natural stone . Following the example of the cathedral in Pisa, the facades of many churches in Tuscany were structured by bands of different colored marble incrustations .
Layers with brick
In brick Gothic there are different types of layering:
- Some particularly sophisticated buildings, especially in the Baltic Sea region, are made of different colored brick, dark glazed alternating with unglazed red, or bricks with two different colored glazes.
- In the brick Gothic of the Netherlands and the Lower Rhine, but also in Denmark, people liked to use the color contrast of brick and natural stone. Since the natural stone is mostly lighter than the brick, the layers of natural stone are referred to in Dutch as “Speklagen”, from which the German translation only differs orthographically, Specklage .
Rustication
The surface of a structural member is called rusticated when the individual stone layers are separated by strong joints.
literature
In general dictionaries, lexicons and encyclopedias and in architecture reference works, the terms banding and banded (in the architectural sense) are not taken into account. The presentation given here relates to the usual use of the terms in art historical literature.
- banded . In: Duden online .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The banding of the facade of the cathedral in Siena z. B. (see illustration) is created by black and white marble stripes that stand out particularly clearly in the campanile , which is much more densely banded than the facades of the church building.
- ↑ Only the online Duden offers for the keyword “banded” as an example “a [green, green-white] banded facade”.