Crossing

Rules that use the word

The bracket set steps out 30 fen a tier. Build the bracket set (puzuo) of blocks (dou) and arms (gong) crossing at right angles, each tier projecting no more than 30 fen beyond the one below; a set of n projecting tiers is called an (n + 3)-puzuo, from four to eight.

Separate ways for carriages, riders and walkers. Carry the city’s cross traffic through the park on roads sunk below its surface, out of sight; inside it, give carriages, riders and walkers each their own system of drives, rides and paths, crossing one another by bridges and arches so that none need meet.

The Latin cross: nave, aisles, transept, apse. Lay out the church as an Early Christian basilica (a tall nave lit from above, lower aisles on either side, a sanctuary ending in an apse to the east) and cross it with a transept, so that the plan becomes a Latin cross with a tower over the crossing.

The crossing square as module. Let the square of the crossing set the measure of the whole church: the nave and transept arms are multiples of it, each nave bay is a square of the same size, and each aisle bay a square one quarter its area.

The Hippodamian grid. Divide the city into equal rectangular blocks by straight streets crossing at right angles, and assign whole blocks to the public buildings; but let walls follow the ground, not the grid.

The market along the main street. Build long ranges of shops at public expense along both sides of the main east–west street, let them to licensed merchants trade by trade, and ring the bell at the crossing to open and close the city.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Domes, Byzantium and the Early Church, Romanesque and Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque, Gardens and Landscape.

A feature of Persian and Mughal garden, Romanesque architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Cottage orné · Crepidoma · Crocket · Cross-in-square · Crown post · Cruck · Cupola · Curtain wall