Arch

Constructive element of curled form, which saves the space between two pillars or walls. It is composed by pieces so called dovelas, and can adopt curved diverse forms. It is very useful to save relatively big spaces with small pieces. The arch has been used for many centuries. His(her,your) beginnings were in the former Mesopotamia and Egypt, then they were used by Greeks and Romans. To the present day it is a good constructive element though it is not so used like before. It works as a set that transmits the charges, already be proper or from other elements, up to the walls or pillars that they it support. Also there are called this way to the structures constructed nowadays with arched form, though they are of an alone piece, and that, in his supports, work in the same way that the constructed ones with dovelas.