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Coffered Slab

A coffered ceiling is a ceiling with sunken panels, either square, rectangular, or octagonal, that provides decoration. The panels are called coffers or caissons. Coffered ceilings provide both decoration and structural strength through the framework of the coffers. Examples of ancient coffered ceilings include those in churches and buildings in Rome, Florence, and France dating from the 15th to 16th centuries.

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Coffered Slab

A coffered ceiling is a ceiling with sunken panels, either square, rectangular, or octagonal, that provides decoration. The panels are called coffers or caissons. Coffered ceilings provide both decoration and structural strength through the framework of the coffers. Examples of ancient coffered ceilings include those in churches and buildings in Rome, Florence, and France dating from the 15th to 16th centuries.

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COFFER CEILINGS

A coffer (or coffering) in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels were used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also called caissons ('boxes"), or lacunaria ("spaces, openings"), so that a coffered ceiling can be called a lacunar ceiling: the strength of the structure is in the framework of the [Link] example of ancient time are given below-

Gilded coffering on a barrel vault of the apsis in Nazar, Portugal

Giuliano da Sangallo's flat caisson ceiling, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Late 16th century coffered ceiling of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome

Coffering on the Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome

Coffered ceiling with 39 painted panels in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy

15th-century flat coffered ceiling, Duomo of Pisa

Inside Pisa's Duomo

Painted coffering in octagons and squares at Fontainebleau

Neoclassical coffered dome of James Wyatt's Pantheon, London

Council chamber ceiling, Halifax Town Hall, 1863

Commerce Court, Toronto

Coffered and glazed dome, Halifax Town Hall, 1863

Waffle slab is a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.

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