Designing and constructing load-bearing building elements
Columns, walls and floors make up the skeleton of nearly every building.
This third volume in the series SCALE, Support Materialise, takes an
in-depth look at these load-bearing structures, covering the development
and realization of appropriate constructions from idea and design
intention all the way to constructional implementation. Following the
traditional building methods of massive, cross-wall, and skeleton
construction, it points the way toward a material-appropriate
constructional approach to these defining structural elements - columns,
walls, and floors. Special attention is given to how constructional and
technical considerations can be harmonized with spatial and formal
commitments. The load-bearing elements are organized, described, and
explored in detail from a material as well as a formal and
constructional perspective. Their practical implementation is
illustrated by a series of international examples.