Notre-Dame of Paris: official time-lapse construction sequence 

That's not as easy, their is no plan of the "forest" (the wooden part) because to be honest it was an organized mess: 2000 trees were used for that. To rebuilt it that was would be too expensive and and wouldn't be possible with today's security laws. Plus, the roof was made with some toxic materials that are banned today. Then we don't have the same tools/talents today.

@@SuperLn1991 It will be rebuild as it was, largely following the old *charpente* web - it has been confirmed by French Ministry of Culture. There are distinguished carpentry schools in France that know how to design and build it, in fact there is such a school at Notre-Dame de Paris itself. There are oak plantations that were planted 150 years ago specifically meant to be used for Cathedral restoration. Lead roof cover might be replaced with a more inert metal design, which in itself will be a testament to a modern metallurgy and yet respectful to the existing Gothic structure.

@@SuperLn1991 Hello, The roof was built with 2,000 trees?!? That’s a lot and, it would wipe out entire forest of France. I hope that they would find something at lumber company or substitute different materials. Thanks for sharing.

@@rbsmith3365 There is more forest now in france than 200 years before..so it s not a problem.

@@vaevictis3612 that is just amazing.

Most things in Europe are. My family is 900 years old. I think most people don’t realize how much history Europe has.

Hello there!

@Carolus Martellus it was an accidental fire

@@francoise4678... it was not.

@@edeliteedelite1961 it was , but some people prefer to believe in different conspiracy theories ( in france too )

Those "people" sipping wine on a canal cruise boat that had a Perfect view of Notre Dame for the Entirety of the Event just happen to be in that very spot by mere coincidence!?! Doubt It . And just for that 1 fact alone means, The Fire Was PLANNED! "OH but thats just a conspiracy"

@@jdsmith5060 Because it is just a conspiracy. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

@@leaderunith4l324 "people" refers to aka Big Mike. Who just happen to be there. There where pics and video of IT after it happened but good luck finding those now.

Kinda like the "Invisible Jet liner that hit the Pentagon

@@jdsmith5060 invisible but not that invisible considering it was caught on camera.

My heart sank as well when I saw the fire. It was so sad and tragic.

Last time I went to Paris, I went to mass there

@@soniazint496 I am so glad you did, Sonia. It shows what a devoted catholic you are. May God, the Almighty bless you, my daughter!

It hurt to watch it burn...its been a few years since I've been to Europe and I know cathedrals burn often...but...its still terrible to see...

Those "people" sipping wine on a canal cruise boat that had a Perfect view of Notre Dame for the Entirety of the Event just happen to be in that very spot by mere coincidence!?! Doubt It . And just for that 1 fact alone means, The Fire Was PLANNED! "OH but thats just a conspiracy"

I wish they ll take their time, no hurry we can wait. Good work requires time.

@@franciscouderq1100 Nowadays the requirement is 'do good work but on time and on budget".

You're damn right

@@franciscouderq1100 I’m sure they’ll want to finish by 2024 for the Paris Olympics

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amazing song

Why do you have to point out you're not religious?

@@bitterlemonboy why does one have to point out anything ? shut up and let people express themselves

it's because of the reinforcement, it didn't got destroy because of some luck that's all

@@spaencerable the reinforcement works began long after the fire, for a long time her destiny was in danger, and she held on.

Awesome! Looks like we've similar interests: www.myleszhang.org/2020/06/08/new-york-city-in-one-drawing/

@@MylesZhang you're an amazing artist with similar ways of work like I do. Also, this capture of the cathedral is pretty much flawless. I really like how you showed how the design of the building changed overtime during its construction. Excellent work. What I'm doing is capturing the building in big pen contours and pencil stone laying, applying shadowcontrast with pencil and then draw all the pen lines over again. The result look like it's coming out of the paper because I captured every detail of the building. Almost as good as a moneybill. I also had plans to go to Paris to help them rebuilding it as a carpenter/jack of all trades. The crisis ruined it for me. Being homeless at that time ruined it for me. So the only thing left for me to do is to do what I also did as a kid: draw it, stone by stone.

@@Ominous89 Wow. Your commitment to the cathedral is inspiring! I hope your work will be documented and that I can see it when you are done. My main regret with past art projects is that I put hundreds of hours into them but did not use the best paper and pens, and so now many of them have not aged well. :-(

@@MylesZhang it will be documented when I'm done. In some way you won't give it away before the real thing is done. It took so much effort and time to put this together. Notre Dame is not just a cathedral. My drawings of it are not just drawings. It's a very delicate piece of work and art. So I'm very carefull with it. I hesitate to put it on the internet just like that. But I will find a way. The motivation for all this is not only the drawings of the cathedrals as a kid. Later on I started to design my own cathedral inspired by the Notre Dame. I made a picture of that. I adjusted that picture with layers on a cellphone. The end result of that was a blackened picture of the building, with its middle spire in flames enlighting other parts of the building. In other words, a picture of a déjà vu of the real fire. Made 5 years before the real fire. When you see that picture in the document, you will know it's me.

@@MylesZhang I also have this problem, with black ink becoming yellow spots on the drawings. In combination with pencil linings. Once I noticed that I started to draw a new one without touching the paper. Sweat and fat from your skin on white paper become yellow stains. That's the main problem with me. So you need to find ways to keep your skin off the paper at all times. Looks like it works for me.

Esta muy bien realizado el v

Vidio así se ve el tiempo de arte que tardó en realizarse tan bella catedral

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens 🤣🤣🤣

It really boggles the mind that in the 12th century, such incredible architecture could happen without the building advantages we have today. Construction was slow but not hard to understand why.

indeed, and the masons who put the roof on fire and summoned the money 24hs later.

The Notre Dame Cathedral has survived many things over 800 years and will survive 800 more. Just like how Big Ben's chimes will ring once again someday.

Indeed it is, can't wait to see the roofing of the spire!

Cela est l investissement pour les génération futurs...... Même si parfois les générations du futur ne savent pas apprécier les efforts des anciens.......

The Dark Ages were already centuries passed by then and they were about to enter the late medieval era. The only thing primitive about the medieval kingdoms of the high medieval age was the bureaucracy.

the Dark ages is a myth, people in the middle ages were not as backwards as you think

@@MZONE991 The myth about the Dark Ages being a myth is also a myth, Europe was under a period of almost constant warfare and under a breakdown of government and other Roman services. Whatever contrarian that thought it was a good idea to rename Dark Ages should be in prison.

@@kafon6368 warfare does not equal being in dark ages the 20th century witnessed the most bloody wars in human history yet we made lots of advancements same goes for the middle ages, even though there were wars, there was many advancements

@@MZONE991 I did not think they were backwards. They didn't have the advancements we have, like machines and computers, yet they built something that rivals anything we build today. That was my point.

Thank you, David. I enjoyed your photographs of Triplicane, too. Finding the right timbers and stone are a real challenge. The original limestone quarries near Paris used to build the cathedral are all used up. Because all the best quarries were gone, Viollet-le-Duc's stone from the 19th-century restoration was, in fact, lower quality and is more decayed now than the centuries old medieval stone from the original construction.

@@MylesZhang ...Great video! I really hated that rococo spire that Violet Le Duc constructed. It was kind of out place IMO... Do you know what is planned?

The current plan is to rebuild the cathedral and spire as they appeared before the fire. Viollet-le-Duc modeled the Paris spire after the 15th-century Late Gothic spire of Amiens Cathedral. His spire might not be "original" to the cathedral, but the goal of this film is to question what in the cathedral truly is original. Each generation has added or taken from this space, and so the cathedral is never finished. It does not come down to us in some ancient and static form. Instead, it is a living work of art and synthesis of styles and features from each generation that inhabited it.

Actually you can see workers , artisans, super qualified craftsmen and women, masters in their respective field using medieval techniques to restoring this cathedral. It s all in the open in front of the building. Mind blowing concentration of knowhow and hard work. Thanks to the Compagnons du Devoir who kept throughout centuries till today this immense and rich professional cultural heritage.

@@MylesZhang there's plenty of limestone in Texas, USA.

Ce shéma de façade à 2 tours se trouvait déjà à Laon : on retrouve ce type "francien":( = d'Ile de France) à Senlis, Saint-Denis, Noyon, Mantes -la-Jolie, Chartres, puis Reims, etc mais elle apparaît aussi, dès le 12 ème s. en Normandie, à Caen : St Etienne et Ste-Marie aux Dames (façades de type "harmonique"). Avant 1200, la cathédrale de Laon offre déjà la séquence des différents niveaux : 3 portails, Grande Rose, galerie d'arcatures (qui devient galerie des Rois à Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Reims), puis niveau terminal des 2 tours de façade. Il n'existe en revanche aucune preuve historique d'une transmission de connaissances entre loges des tailleurs de pierre médiévaux et loges maçonniques des 17-18 ème s.

@@Lardenoy My French is quite poor, but your comment looks fascinating! Can anyone translate this? Thanks!

not sure there are plans

no they use data from my societe, we had taken the measurements just before the fire.

Thank you, Brother Christopher. We don't know much about the clerestory's original appearance in the nave and choir. No records survive, and rebuilding the clerestory from 1220 to 1225 erased all traces of the upper levels. So reconstruction is speculative. Some nineteenth-century architects speculated that Notre-Dame originally had no flying buttresses, and that they were only added when the clerestory was rebuilt. Some claim that the upright buttresses were originally smaller and that they were only expanded and reinforced in the 1200s to support the added weight of the flying buttresses. But because the upright buttresses in the nave are uninterrupted and show no signs of having been modified, then we can assume that they were original to the 1100s. Therefore the upright buttresses are so large and so massive that they must have been built in anticipation they would later carry the weight of the main vaults via the flying buttresses. In addition, the original width and height of the nave are so large that the stone vaults would have fallen without the support of flying buttresses. The question of whether or not the original Notre-Dame contained flying buttresses might seem trivial. But the dating is central to the story and origins of Gothic. Notre-Dame was central to the spread of the Gothic style, and the flying buttresses are one of the key features of the Gothic. So to date the flying buttresses to the original work in the 1100s instead of the 1220s reconstruction is, in some ways, to push back the narrative. Stephen Murray, who advised this film, discusses your question at length in his 1998 article "Notre-Dame of Paris and the Anticipation of Gothic." www.jstor.org/stable/3051231 He describes no fewer than SIX proposals people have had over time for Notre-Dame's original look. For my construction sequence, I relied mainly on Dany Sandron and the late Andrew Tallon's illustrated book "Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History." They speculate that the original transept facades and rose windows from before the 1245-1265 rebuilding resembled Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey.

@@MylesZhang Thank you so much! I am going to check out that link about the various hypotheses regarding the form of the original flying buttresses. I'm sure I am familiar with some of them, such as Violet-le-Duc's, but I suspect I'll find some surprises. The transept facade reconstructions make perfect sense to me, and seem very appropriate to the period. While I'm sure they're not exact reproductions, the original facades undoubtedly resembled them. Thanks again for your wonderful animation. I really enjoyed it, and it has my curiosity piqued.

Thank you. Notre-Dame is a testament to its builders' faith and commitment to a building cause so much larger than themselves. Their names are largely forgotten, but their work continues to inspire. I only hoped to share my warmth for this cathedral with others. So I'm delighted you were inspired.

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Yes. Scaffolding is already being removed. The exteriors will be ready for the olympics, the cathedral will reopen in december

Thank you. I agree. The rebuilding should use the techniques and technologies of our own era. A modern reconstruction can still be respectful of history, much like the Louvre pyramid reflects on antique forms through modern materials. Unfortunately, the rebuilding is a political and politicized act that is influenced by the public pressure to "rebuild the cathedral as it was before."

@Real Aiglon while in France the current panels are ugly, that does not mean that it is the same worldwide. My biggest concern is that the weight of the previous roofing system, of timber framing and lead sheathing will prove too heavy for the current conditions of the walls. As after the roof is finished, the temporary supports of the flying buttressed will be removed. Additionally, even the original construction included internal.structure to create the vaults. Finally,, a Lead is a known poison that begins to deteriorate into the adjacent area upon contact with environment, rain, air pollution Etc. Also, Will President Macron take the full financial responsibility should he be wrong?

@Real Aiglon with modern technology it is possible to achieve all the necessary parameters while still giving the appearance of the original. EG: thermal roof panels can provide an insulation factor that the original did not have, thereby lowering the heating costs as the vaulting would become a thermal mass without permitting heat loss through the stonework. Photovoltaic panels would permit a lowering of electrical costs especially for those days that require the interior lighting to be used. While the building will never be at Net Zero, there is no non political reason for not incorporating what can be achieved. The only people that would be affected partially, would be the timber framers. And while everyone can appreciate their skills, the other factors must take precedence where possible.