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THE WALL

THE WALL. Student: Ana Mirabent USBID: 08-10750. Wall. 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.

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THE WALL

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  1. THE WALL Student: Ana Mirabent USBID: 08-10750

  2. Wall 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.

  3. TYPES OF WALLS LOAD BEARING WALL Supportsthe weight of floors and roofs NON-BEARING WALL Only supports its own weight

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

  5. 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.

  6. Brick wall Stone wall Wood wall Plastic wall Metal wall Glass wall

  7. 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. Retaining walls provide a barrier to the movement of earth, stone or water.

  8. OTHER TYPES OF WALLS Portable 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.

  9. BIBLIOGRAPHY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall https://lie.asignaturas.usb.ve/pluginfile.php/6644/mod_resource/content/1/wall.pdf

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