SETTING OUT - Ancient Building Technology - page 17

CHAPTER TWO

SETTING OUT

A. Preliminary Surveying (Setting out and Surveying)
B. Principles of Setting Out
1. Built Monuments
2. Rock Cut Monuments
C. Geometry of Ancient Building Design
1. Round Building
2. Rectangular Buildings
3. Centralised Polygonal Buildings
4. Curvilinear (Oval) Buildings
D. Setting Out Concerns
1. Orientation
(a) Astronomical Orientation
(b) True Geographical Orientation
(i) Solar Observation
(ii) Siderial Observation

2. Line
(a) Path
(b) Length
3. Angle
4. Level
E. Setting Out—Data Provided
1. Building Design and Setting Out
2. Setting out and Building Construction
(a) Egyptian Building
(b) Classical Greek Ashlar Building

A. Preliminary Surveying (Setting out and Surveying)

Setting out, the marking out on the ground of the lines (points) necessary to
ensure that a building is accurately constructed according to the projected design,
is obviously a very basic measure in any building programme. Yet it is surprising
how little investigation and discussion this crucial operation has received in the
literature of ancient building. Certainly it is impossible to deal with the question

A little
inves-
tigated
basic
measure