Structural Elements
- Refer to: Category: Architectural elements
- Arch – a structure that spans a space and supports a load.
- Atrium (architecture) –
- Beam (structure) –
- Buttress – an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.
- Cantilever – a beam anchored at only one end.
- Column – or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is an structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.
- Dome – a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- Facade – one exterior side of a building, especially the front.
- Pier (architecture) –
- Post and lintel – or in contemporary usage Post and beam, is a simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, wikt:pillar|pillars, or wikt:post|posts.
- Span (architecture) –
- Truss – a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes.
- Vault (architecture) –
- Wall – (from Old English weall) is a vertical structure, usually solid, that defines and sometimes protects an area.
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