The Aesthetic Geometry of Holy Places: A Case Study of Intrinsic Relations through Traces

Abstract

[EN] The Santos Juanes Church in Valencia, Spain, is one of the most important religious buildings in the city. Based on this church, this work proposes an analysis that can be extrapolated to other historic buildings where, like this one, no detailed documents on constructive measurement reasons exist. Hence the present work outlines the unpublished hypothesis of how the sequential process of traces on both the plan and section might have been based on the different ancient and medieval architectural treatises. All this will allow the existing intrinsic relations between the shape of the building and its current aesthetics to be obtained through a metric and geometric analysis of the church