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Not a construction engineer but an architectural historian. Reading between the lines of descriptions of these wells, I'd say they started as a narrow shaft (tr
by theoh 11y ago
Not a construction engineer but an architectural historian.
Reading between the lines of descriptions of these wells, I'd say they started as a narrow shaft (traditional "well" shape) which was progressively excavated and widened to create the setback steps. I am 90% sure they didn't dig a huge cuboid hole down to the water table, build the structure inside and then backfill.
- roel_v 11y agoYeah some of them look like this (the conical ones), but the huge ones in the pictures with the many stories seem to be 'square' temple-like. I'd imagine that building those pillars with 'decks' between each layers isn't something you can gradually add. Intriguing.