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DOI: 10.15507/VMU.025.201501.110 

THE ARCHITECTURE OF AN ANCIENT CENTRIC DWELLING IN CAUCASUS-PAMIR MEGAREGION ASCRADLE OF CRYSTALLIZATION OF CREATIVE IDEAS FOR DOME ON SQUARE

Besolov Vladimir Butusovich
(director of North Caucasian Academic Centre of the International Academy of Architecture (94, Alagirskaya Str., Alagir, Russia), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Besolov Aristarkh Vladimirovich
( post-graduate student of Caucasus Studies, the history of the ancient world and the Middle Ages of North Ossetia State University named after K. L. Hetagurov (46, Vatutin Str., Vladikavkaz, Russia), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Over the course of history the architectural morphotype of the ancient centric dwelling has been continuously transformed and developed, for the Indo-European masters paid special attention to the improvement of the Domeconcept, i.e. planned composition, spatial and tectonic structure and shape. Initial place of emergence and development of the creative ideas for the dome on a square occurred in architecture of the ancient centric dwelling and subsequently held its brilliant transformation into central dome structures of memorial and religious architecture in Early Medieval Christian Eastern countries and historical Byzantium. Undoubtly, for many centuries there was a crystallization of the artistic and creative concept of the domeon on a square, arisen in ancient times. Evidences of this are the architectural creations of the centric composition, the structures and forms, built of local building materials, constituents inseparable unity, organic whole with the Caucasus-Pamir mountain mega region landscape. There is no doubt that the architectural morphotype of the ancient centric dwelling with-pyramidal-ledged ceiling andlight-fluehole over an open hearth was the original basis and creative impulse in the process of forming the composition and structure of the internal space and external forms architectonic in memorial and religious structures in the early Middle Ages with Central dome, i.e. in Christian regions and the Muslim East, including the architecture of the Early and High Middle Ages in countries as Aghvan, Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Alanya – all in the Caucasus, as well as Azerbaijan, Middle and Central Asia.

Keywords: architectural morphotype, ethnic and linguistic community, Indo-Europeans, centric dwelling, domeon on a square, Caucasus region, Pamir region, central dome temple, shrine.

For citation: Besolov V. B., Besolov A. V. Arkhitektura drevneyshego tsentricheskogo zhilishcha KavkazoPamirskogo megaregiona kak lono kristallizatsii tvorcheskoy idei “kupol na kvadrate” [The architecture of an ancient centric dwelling in Caucasus-Pamir megaregion as a cradle of crystallization of creative ideas for dome on square]. Vestnik Mordovskogo Universiteta – Mordovia University Bulletin. 2015, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 110–127. DOI: 10.15507/VMU.025.201501.110

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