Diamond cuboid

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Palazzo de Jabalquinto, 15th century, Baeza , Spain

The diamond cuboid is a special form of the basement or rustication in architecture . Diamond cuboids are smoothly hewn stone cuboids with a square or rectangular floor plan and a faceted front. The even, smooth hewing creates a pyramid .

Bosses are protruding and usually roughly hewn stones that emphasize individual parts of the building. This can be a base, the corners of the building, gates or windows or the entire facade .

While the bosses usually want to give the impression of largely untreated stone , the bosses of the diamond cuboid are facet-shaped. The face of the stone resembles a pyramid or a hipped roof . The diamond cuboid is also used alternately with raw humped bosses.

The diamond cuboid is a modern further development of the antique rustication and was mainly used in the Renaissance , Baroque and Historicism periods .

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