CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
I mean, there are only so many ways to build a building. All of them are 90% identical...they all have a floor, a roof, and walls. All the other differences are decorative.
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There are a lot of functional jobs for architecture besides floors, walls, and roofs.
IOW, that buttress ain't just decorative.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Pretty sure the job of a buttress is to support the roof. Which makes it functionally a part of the wall, yes? (Chimneys, on the other hand...)There are a lot of functional jobs for architecture besides floors, walls, and roofs.
IOW, that buttress ain't just decorative.
That logic kind of fails, in that there's buildings without walls...
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
...no walls at all? Just a roof hovering over a floor?
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Pillars are not walls, sir.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
This is where engineers and architects usually start fighting about "how wide does a pillar need to be before it's considered a wall."
(I expected you to mention domes, tbh. The categorization of an igloo is a classic engineering school question.)
Looks like walls would be the usual anymore.
"a structure with a roof and walls, such as a house, school, store, or factory." from Oxford Languages
while dictionary.com just needs it to be enclosed...
'a relatively permanent enclosed construction over a plot of land, having a roof and usually windows and often more than one level, used for any of a wide variety of activities, as living, entertaining, or manufacturing."
[The OED on the other hand wants me to go look up house, "That which is built; a structure, edifice: now a structure of the nature of a house built where it is to stand." ]
Thunderfoot
Hero
A gazebo has no walls, but does have a floor and a roof and buttresses. (whether or not arrows are sticking out of them).
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