[Pulkitm]

Walls

Walls are a symbol of strong building and transfer the load of the roof to the ground. A wall is a usually 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 or delineates a space in the open air. There are three principal types of structural walls: building walls, exterior boundary walls, and retaining walls.

[Ar.satish lohar]

The wall, or the deewar in construction, is an integral part of the house. Serving to partition spaces, the wall also has a secondary function to support the building, and as a sound insulator. As a decorative element many uses can be found for the wall: as a space for art or murals, for electric outlets or a ‘wayfinder’ of sorts, guiding the user through the building. One may think it is impossible or impractical to build a house without walls, even if it were technically possible. -

Le Corbusier, in his Five Points of Architecture, famously pointed out that the open plan was one of the key features of modern architecture. The open plan was a gift of the modern age, when structures could be erected using beams and columns rather than the thick walls of the 17th and 18th centuries. Wide windows, vistas into the natural environment, and ease and freedom of movement were some of the advantages that Le Corbusier thought of – and experimented with – for example most famously in his villa Poissy near Paris.

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