forces from all the immovable elements of a building (weight of building materials, walls, floors, built-ins ect)

forces from all the “movable” elements of a building (people, equipment, furniture)

capacity to resist being pushed together

capacity to resist being pulled apart

a method of construction that utilizes large, widely-spaced wood to provide structural support to the building

composite order

• • Unlike Doric, supports an entablature with no decoration 

  • Used to create wooden temple with pitched roof 

• • Combines ionic volutes with Corinthian acanthus leaves 

  • A roman innovation 

Types of construction and structural systems 

• frame

• masonry

• trabeated

• arcuated

• all of the above

frame =

masonry =

types of pyramid

• step, straight, bent

• straight, bent, horizontal

• bent, horizontal, asymmetrical

• symmetrical, asymmetrical, straight