Why do medieval buildings overhang their lower floors?

these ratings I'm Chad and if you've ever seen

medieval

style architecture, whether in a documentary, a movie, a TV show, whatever, you've probably noticed something very peculiar and distinctive about them, and that's in any floor above the first. floor, usually second floor and can go up continuously. You know that the floor above the ground floor extends a little beyond the line of the wall below, so the walls on the higher

floors

extend and then sometimes go up again and extend again. I'm sure you've seen this before. It is a very distinctive feature and style of

medieval

architecture.

Well, if you've seen it, have you ever wondered why the hell the

buildings

were built like that, well, I'm here to help you with that question because in this video I'll tell you why and I'll also guess what has a correct name, this style in medieval architecture is really found in any building but it is more prominent in medieval architecture it is called getiing now the thing about gelatin is that it applies more to wooden architecture but there is a very comparable design style in stone architecture now. I haven't been able to confirm if it is called jelly when it is made in stone, but it is also made in medieval castles and this has appeared in many of my castle videos because the reason it is made in castles is somewhat different, sometimes the same That's why it's done in wooden

buildings

, so let's get into it. reasons why I'll first cover the log cabins and stuff and then we'll move on to the stone for the castles and castles and stuff like that.

The first obvious reason why Jed eing was made in medieval buildings and stuff was that it offers more space on the upper

floors

. Now this is important when the building footprint was restricted in terms of space. If it was very close to other buildings, it was in a built-up area, but in terms of buildings, there is always space in front of them because the door needs space to open and they usually open onto a street, so if you have restricted space as soon as you build a floor you can extend the second floor a little towards it on the street and this was done very often in medieval cities.

It's interesting to note about medieval cities before transport became widely accessible to large numbers of people, the main way they got around was walking now that you have an area where there are a lot of people packed together. This can let you know that it creates problems with regards to making people habitable because everything they need to live needs to be within walking distance and therefore bringing people closer to the things they need and the things they need. To get closer to people, they crowd people as close as possible, which reduces the walking distance they have to travel to meet the needs of life and that's why medieval cities and things like that are often very, very narrow. because remember if you don't build you have to build which increases the distance to walk between the things you need but yes building has a big advantage and then if you are restricted in the space between everything yes if you go up extending the street and then each floor that goes up above, can get additional space than it was initially allocated or allowed to get away with based on the actual footprint of the building itself, the part where this answer doesn't make much sense is when you know that you know areas where the footprint was not restricted, like in more rural areas, so why you could make your house as big as you wanted, you know about the foundation, so why did you make it small or have the size and then on purpose ?

Choose something larger to climb, another possible reason is that any type of building, when you build it on the ground, needs support, usually with stumps, depending on the type of architecture being built, so the footprint is larger. that you are making more Stubbs than you need, which creates a more complicated process. I guess you try to put the stumps in sometimes and it's not too difficult, but it's not easy either, but either way you save yourself work and effort by getting to the

lower

level. as big as it needs to be and then when you go up to the next floor you get more space on top.

Another way stone buildings were often made in the medieval period is that the

lower

floor didn't actually have a stone frame on the external walls that would later support the main living part, which would be the floor, so the lower level would be a place to store things, also the animals would live there and as I mentioned, the upper floor would be the place where people actually lived, this offered a couple of advantages, one of the main thing is that it was not necessary to place any part of the wood on the ground because the wood is not treated properly and of course in the medieval period. that was simply the war timur when exposed to constant humidity rots after a couple of years quite easily, so when there were wooden buildings built on wooden stumps, they would not last long because of that, so stone foundations were always better and by not having a floor close to the ground you can avoid the need to have to overlook the potholes that support it and therefore avoid the problem of rotting, sometimes there were floors at lower levels Don't get me wrong, but the ones that lasted the longest would be the ones that are actually built on a proper stone foundation, so it would be better for them to have stone floors, in this case on the lower level, now that the stone is More expensive meant that having a larger footprint on the lower level would cost more for a golf course, so it would be as big as you could afford, but lumber is much more plentiful and cheaper as soon as you get to the next floor, you can't use whole wood and not risk any of the rot problems with wood by being close to the On the ground, you can make a floor plan much larger than the one below, so that the wood frames extend from the stone walls underneath and this is again a very common feature in these types of buildings where the first floor of these buildings is not always, but the first floor of these buildings would be made of stone and the second floor and above would be half-timbered.

The other possible reason and explanation for why jetting was developed in this period was a type of architectural advantage that you see when you have a large beam that extends, you know that the ceiling between the two walls is well, well, that wood will want sinking weight gravity is fine, basic physics, so the way you can prevent this sinking is by putting a counterweight on the other end, but if the wood is just leaning against the wall, there is no room to put a counterweight on it, but if you extend that beam right on the wall it's resting on now, there will be weight as it's pushed down in the middle, which could cause it to sink. but then if you put a weight on the far end, that creates a counterforce that can work against its weight, they direct themselves but also the floor you put on top of it and then everything you put on top of it.

Well, furniture and people walking on top of it, this can actually create a more stable structure and floor for the upper levels in general and of course the other possible reason is that it just looks nice, okay, it's really interesting how humans determine what is visually. pleasing to the eye and we didn't really like a certain level of complexity and sophistication as long as it is a balanced and innocent kind of symmetry that will create Beauty for us, so just seeing a flat wall is not that interesting, but having that a slight difference where it's halfway up and then you got the extension and then you have the beam holding it up or even corbels if it's stone like that, it creates a view that's much more visually interesting than before so yeah, they could have done that.

I did it again for the reasons I mentioned and because it looked great and the funny thing is that I loved how it looks since the first time I swore by medieval huts or this style of architecture, I thought it looks brilliant combined with the other styles too, specifically the wooden frames and how it has the whitewash, you know, the door and then the whitewash in the middle, which looks really cool, so why was this jet apparently duplicated in stone architecture, specifically castles, first of all, anyone, if you are familiar with my channel and enjoy watching my castle videos.

You already know the answer to this, so I ask you to be patient while I explain it to those who probably don't know the answer. First of all, it is a defensive feature of the castle. walls now in a castle wall you have the wall and then you have an area that people walk on that is called a wall. Now the people on top of the walls will be there trying to keep the bad guys from getting in because that's the purpose. The forecast is good to keep the bad guys from coming in and also repel them and they don't want to be left there completely exposed, so they developed well.

This part did not develop on the battlements of the medieval period. Credle Ations is the defensive part in At the top of the walls that were developed long before the medieval period, the Romans did not have battlements, and that is where you have a kind of large stone block that provides full cover against arrow fire close to any other type of projectiles and then you have a space. Crennel between these stone blocks where you can lean out and shoot the bad guys, that's why the stone blocks are called Merlin and the spaces between the grains of gold and together they are called battlements are now cool, but there is a problem. with battlements and that's when people get too close because when they're too close, unless you lean out and knock down, you're not going to come out and catch them and often the battlements are too big and bulky for you to lean over. go out and grab your bow and that really provides cover for the people who are right up against the wall.

The answer to this is quite impressive in my opinion when you extend the battlement out of the wall a little so that it protrudes and protrudes like squirting on wooden buildings and things like that, but that won't do any good unless there are some holes through those who can shoot, so this is the battlement and this is the wall, the battlement not only extends so far that there is a gap in the middle. and then they have ripping corbels, which the battlement rests on and between the corbels are holes that you can throw rocks through or you can just shoot straight through them to catch anyone who is right up against the wall, these things are these holes.

Called machicolations, they are one of the most iconic and identifying features of a castle. Now I thank you guys who already knew the answer for following along with the rap because now we're going to get into some areas that I haven't covered before in regards to this design feature of extending the battlements, you know the actual walls of castles because There are historical examples, period examples, you know, castles from the medieval period that had these extended battlements without functional registration. Now it's funny, at first when I have you. I read about what machicolations were when I first saw battlements spread out on the walls.

I thought it was really stupid and I still partly do, and when I saw that video games didn't have proper defensive machicolations, I mentioned them as Being a Bug specifically, I did in my review of Dragon Age Inquisition's Sky Hold. Well now I need to clarify that and to MIT that it was a bit out of context and I say it here because I have since found out that this was also done. In historic castles with sorrel castles of many periods, this extension existed without functional machicolations. Well, first of all, I should add that when the battlements extend without machicolations between the holes, this actually amplifies the original problem because you are just forming the angle.

It's harder for you to take down anyone who gets to the wall, so this can be without my circulation, this can be a big defensive debuff if it's on a wall where attackers won't get as close, no problem, so If there is no problem, why would you still want to do it? Two main reasons. Well, first of all, sometimes the walls were very, very narrow. Well depending on the thickness of the castle wall, now the thickness of the castle wall is a standard and then there are exceptions if you want a good defensible castle. wall, you'll want it to be a minimum of a meter thick and that's on anyone if it's on a keep wall facing an area that's not really threatened, generally you still want it a full meter thick on the external walls real at least. two meters thick and more, there are exceptions, the walls are thinner of course, but if you want the standard and you have the right level of structural strength, I guess, for the castle, you have to ask yourself if at least yes, one meter thick now if there really is a wall, especially if this is the outer wall of a key, it can often only be a meter thick, that wall will be what creates the rampart above it and then if you want a proper battlement, whichIt will be maybe 20 to 30 centimeters thick, that leaves a very small amount of space for you to walk next to one person you could get away with, but as soon as you can with another person, there won't be much room for you to pass each other. yes, so there is a functional reason why they could want to extend the battlement a little bit outside the wall just to create more walking space, so this is one of the reasons why it makes sense to do this architectural style without machicolations defensive, if you add machicolations on top, I think it's because this is interesting, if you're going to extend it well and go to the trouble of having to do the architecture, you should add the columns to support things, in my opinion it's almost exactly the same job adding defensive machicolations as well so I don't know why you wouldn't do it if that was the case, there is another case where you wouldn't do it and that's when it's not spread far enough and therefore there are some cases in historic castles where the battlements extended far enough to like a lot just outside the side of the wall now that the battlements, so yeah, the battlements extend far enough that they don't really need corbels to hold up.

It's because most of it because if it's that big and it's only moving, maybe 1/3 of the way up the wall, most of the weight is still on the wall and it'll be perfectly stable, you don't really need corals to hold it up. and if that's the case, the Battlement doesn't extend far enough to provide machicolations anyway, so you couldn't add them, but the strange thing about this is that with such a small extension of the Battlement and it won't create additional space in the battlement either. wall, then why did he return to the same extreme? Then it was mentioned with the buildings.

It looks good, it looks very good. The other thing is because the true origin of this style. the architecture in castles was a proper military function, right, it has the same kind of look and in the implication, even if they're not real, it still has that and it makes it, I don't know, it makes it look more prestigious, more military in that sense. So one of the data examples of a castle has the battlements and you know the tops of the towers and the walls as a really small expanse. It's Kidwell d castle, so take a look at some of these shots here again, the upper battlements, there's an extension there. that really serves no functional purpose at all, the ICAT, the only reason is that it wouldn't provide additional space for the wall of any significant level, so the only conclusion I can come to as to why it is placed there is that it looks ok and I really like it, honestly, it makes a visual difference there, just a flat wall and a bit boring, but just having that little border at the top makes it look a lot better, it's interesting the real origin of that, you know , these upper battlements have You know, a small extension that protrudes slightly from the wall below was a military and defensive feature, but then it became an iconic visual style of this architecture, so when people wanted

their

buildings to look like Castillo, they just copied that style but they didn't really do it. all the time they just want it to look like that and that became more common the closer you get to even today, you can take a look at all these castle type houses that are made to look like castles, but they're not.

They are not true defensive fortified castles. This is one of the most common features you will see on towers and walls. Those battlements and battlements are always there. There is a border line below them where they spread slightly. Sometimes more. Sometimes less. But there is a slight extension. of them sitting a little off the wall below and it's all for that iconic look. Just remember that if you want a castle to be properly fortified and able to defend itself to the best of its ability, you don't want to do the visual aspect. you want to make proper circulation or as I like to say magic snack