WALL Student: Ana Mirabent USBID:

DEFINITION Solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects a space in the open air. Wall

TYPES OF WALLS Supports the weight of floors and roofs LOAD BEARING WALL Only supports its own weight NON-BEARING WALL

LOAD BEARING WALL Proportional to the forces it has to resist is can go Uniform along the whole length THICKNESS According to buttressing STRENGHT The number of openings that can be used determines PLACEMENT depends of The type of support

NON-BEARING WALL CHARACTERISTICS Only appears in a construction where the loads are carried by other members, and usually have skeletal structures It rests or hangs upon members of the frame Can be built with traditional materials, light walls of glass, plastic, metal alloys, wood products, etc Offers greatly expanded opportunities for creative expression.

Brick wallStone wallWood wall Plastic wallMetal wallGlass wall

OTHER TYPES OF WALLS Boundary walls include privacy walls, boundary-marking walls on property, and town walls. Separation walls designed to formally separate one population from another. provide a barrier to the movement of earth, stone or water. Retaining walls

Portable walls OTHER TYPES OF WALLS used to take a large open space and effectively divide it into smaller rooms. Shared walls separate apartment or hotel rooms from each other. Physiological wall A wall can also refer to something that the human mind is blocking or hiding from memory but this is debatable.

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