STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURE

Structural Design for Architecture

Fig. 5.23 The four basic plan types for loadbearing-wall

structures. Only the loadbearing walls are shown,

(a) Spine-wall.

(b) Cross-wall.

(c) Cellular.

(d) Core-type.

diagrammatically in Fig. 5.23. All building

plans must, however, contain some walls

which conform to one of these basic plan-

forms. Typical element dimensions for this

type of building are given in Table 5.1.

Where a one-way-spanning floor system is

used it is best supported on a parallel arrange-

ment of loadbearing walls; the cross-wall and

spine-wall arrangements are therefore particu-

larly suitable for this type of construction. The

spacing between the walls depends mainly on

Fig. 5.24 Typical wall arrangements in actual buildings in

which numerous non-structural partition walls are required

for space-planning purposes.

(a) Spine-wall arrangement.

166 (b) Cross-wall arrangement.

Principal loadbearing walls (a)

Principal (b)

loadbearing

walls

(c)

(d)

(a)

(b)