ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a geometric, constructive and structural analysis, of the Encarnacion church dome in Montefrio, Granada. It's a hemispherical dome, built of stone in the 18th century; the result of the confluence of three trends at that time: Bourbon centralism, illustrated academicism and architectural neoclassicism. Geometric modelling of the dome was carried out in three successive phases with ever greater precision: studying old documents and bibliography of the traces, measuring in situ with measuring tape and manual laser, and three-dimensional architectural digitalization with a laser station. The chapter presents the geometric modelling of the dome, taken from three-dimensional scanning applied to architectural research. It describes the petrographic analysis of the material, and the stereotomy of the masonry, formulating hypothesis about the construction process. The chapter provides an analysis of the mechanical behaviour of the dome, including detailed graphical diagrams, and aims to determine their degree of safety after applying the Fundamental Theorems of Limit Analysis.
