Hagia Sophia — four lives (3D)

About this app

Church 537, new dome 562, mosque from 1453, museum from 1934, mosque again from 2020: timeline with minarets and buttresses by date, furnishings for each use. Section with load path through pendentives and semi-domes, collapse of 558, view up into the floating dome with light through the ring of windows; surroundings from OpenStreetMap.

Subject: World heritage & building history

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