THE WALL IN ARCHITECTURE

SERGIO GILJESÚS CISNEROS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

- INTROUCTION- DEFINITION - WALL IN ARCHITECURE- WALL IN URBAN PLANNING- TYPES OF WALLS

- BEARING- CHARACTERISTICS

- NON BEARING- CHARACTERISTICS- MATERIALs

- WALL CONSTRUCTION METHODS- STAGGERED STUDS- DOUBLE STUDS-SINGLE STUDS

- CONCLUSION

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INTRODUCTION

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What do we know about walls?

DEFINITION

A wall is an upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.

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WALL IN ARCHITECTUREIn architecture the walls can comply the function of linking, as well as separate spaces.

The arrangement of the wall can be used to create a journey into a place such as in a museum, from input to output through all modules.

A wall can divide terrains that are open spaces, to limit a structure of another adjacent one.

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Walls in Urban PlanningSince the beginning of the civilization, cities instinctively created walls to protect the city from external attacks and to delimit the space where the city would develop.

They were then used for a purpose most studied in the case of the Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China, which emerged from a political conflict and were used to end territorial disputes and separate population.

Walls of Troy. Turkey (XII B.C.)Great Wall of China (V B.C.- XVI)

TYPES OF WALL

Bearing Wall

The bearing wall, is a type of wall that bears a load resting upon it by conducting its weight to a foundation structure.

Depending on the type of building and the number of stories, load-bearing walls are gauged to the appropriate thickness to carry the weight above them.

Characteristics

It’s thickned proportionally to the forces it has to resist.

It’s thickness can be reduced at the top, beacuse the loads’ stress accumulate towards the base of the wall.

They must be thickened proportionally to the widith of the opening, if any.

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TYPES OF WALLS

NON-BEARING WALLS

Walls that are only intended to support themselves and the weight of the cladding or sheathings attached. Non load bearing walls provide no structural support and may be interior or exterior walls.

-Only appear where loads are carried by other members, as in heavy timber and other skeletal structures.

- Since it only supports its weight it becomes a curtain screen; and admits treatment in any durable, weather-resisting material, examples of this is the glass curtain wall

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Materials These can be built with very different materials. Being the most used: Wood, brick, plasterboard, wood and its derivatives.

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WALL CONSTRUCTION METHODSSTAGGERED STUDS

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WALL CONSTRUCTION METHODSDOUBLE STUDS

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WALL CONSTRUCTION METHODSSINGLE STUDS

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CONCLUSIONS

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REFERENCES

-Wall Reading https://lie.asignaturas.usb.ve/pluginfile.php/3201/mod_resource/content/0/wall.pdf

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall