ABSTRACT
The building was built between 1689 and 1692 as the baroque summer palace of the Austrian Emperor Leopold. It has been subjected to several rehabilitation projects and adapted to different uses such as a hunting lodge, a royal court, a warehouse and a site for imperial coronation festivals. This chapter deals with the structural analysis of a heritage neo-gothic arcade located in Stromovka Park in Prague. This building has been of great importance to Czech citizens since the late 17th century. However, it has endured more than sixty years of negligence, natural disasters, and close range tunneling construction. Graphic Statics was performed using pseudo-3D thrust analysis which states that vaults behave structurally as a combination of many small arches in both directions that transfer the entire load to the diagonal ribs and then to the supports. The chapter aims to assess the stability and structural behavior of the arcade and furthermore to establish the causes of the observed damage pattern.
