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Structure in Architecture 1

This document summarizes different types of architectural structures: - Post and beam structures use roof and floor beams resting on wall posts. Cantilevers project from a single support. Tensile structures carry only tension loads. Arches and domes efficiently carry vertical loads. Trusses use triangular units for long spans without interior supports. The types include glulam, steel, timber, and composite materials. Architectural structures can integrate sculpture and engineering through forms like arches, domes, and tensile membranes.

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Structure in Architecture 1

This document summarizes different types of architectural structures: - Post and beam structures use roof and floor beams resting on wall posts. Cantilevers project from a single support. Tensile structures carry only tension loads. Arches and domes efficiently carry vertical loads. Trusses use triangular units for long spans without interior supports. The types include glulam, steel, timber, and composite materials. Architectural structures can integrate sculpture and engineering through forms like arches, domes, and tensile membranes.

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Structure in Architecture

Professional and Technical Studies DESN22064

What the engineer sees as a


structure, the architect sees
as a sculpture. Actually, of
course, it is both.
-Sir Ove Arup

Content
Types of Architectural Structure
- Post and Beam
- Cantilever
- Tensile
- Arch and Dome
- Trusses

Building System

Types of Building
Structure

Post and Beam

A type of building frame in which


roof and floor beams rest directly
over wall posts.

Natural round columns, and glulam beams

Sawn and dressed hardwood post and beams

Glue laminated posts, beams, and wall and flooring panels


Architectural Structures

Composite steel and timber posts with timber beams, floors and screens
Architectural Structures

Portal frames
Portal frames can be used in timber based commercial and industrial building
construction with clear spans of 15 to 30 metres. They provide large clear spans and
good height clearance for use in a range of applications.

Cantilever
A projecting structure, such as
a beam, that is supported at
one end and carries a load at
the other end or along its
length.

Tensile

A tensile structure is a
construction of elements carrying
only tension and no compression
or bending.
Tensile membrane structures are
most often used as roofs as they
can economically and attractively
span large distances
Tension roofs or canopies are
those in which every part of the
structure is loaded only in
tension, with no requirement to
resist compression or bending
forces. Vandenberg; page 6

Membrane
Cable Net
Paraboloid

Arch and Domes


The arch is one of the oldest

structural forms for spanning any


distance. It is essentially a two
dimensional structural system with
all of its strength in the plane of
the arch.
- Dome structures extend the
principal of the arch by introducing
a third dimension. The dome is a
very efficient structural system for
carrying vertical loads and can
result in the most slender of
timber structural systems.

Arch and Domes

Arch and Domes

Arch and Domes

Arch and Domes

Hand nailed green hardwood arches, framed as curved boxed trusses

Curved glue laminated arches

Arches

Bolted sawn hardwood arches

Arches

Bedford Square, London

Geodesic Dome

A geodesic dome is a spherelike structure composed of a


complex network of triangles.
The triangles create a selfbracing framework that gives
structural strength while using
a minimum of material.

Glulam softwood compression and steel tension dome elements

Monolithic Dome

A Monolithic Dome is a onepiece structure made with


concrete and rebar (ridged
steel rods).
Monolithic Domes use half as
much concrete and steel as
traditional buildings.
The curved shape of the dome
makes it resistant to wind and
storm damage.

Monolithic Dome

Trusses
- Truss is a structure comprising one or
more triangular units constructed with
straight slender members whose ends
are connected at joints referred to as
nodes.
- The long span capabilities of trusses
can offer designers the flexibility of floor
layouts without interior supports. Most
trusses are pre-fabricated to standard
designs using pressed metal nail plates,
providing versatility in design, economy,
fast delivery, and ease of erection.

Truss grid

Glue laminated truss grid

Tapering plywood box beam rafters, sawn timber primary trusses on hardwood posts

Heavy glulam trusses and roof

Post, beams and trusses

Glulam columns, roof frame and trussed wind posts

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