Cellular construction

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Cellular construction
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The plan view of a house
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This house is constructed from a number of rooms
(cells)
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A three cell structure
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Cellular Construction

• The structure consists of walls each joined to
  its neighbour.
• The external walls form the boundaries of the
  building and the internal walls divide the
  building into cells (rooms) making the building
  Cellular.

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Structural Stability

• The strength of cellular structures is achieved
  by the large number of short walls which are
  joined together at right angles.
• This type of structure is usually used in low
  rise domestic dwellings.

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Materials to construct walls

• The walls are usually constructed from
• Brick
• Block
• Mass Concrete
• or occasionally Stone.

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Load bearing walls

• The total load of the roof and intermediate
  floors are transferred to the foundations by the
  external walls.
• The internal walls may also carry some of the
  load.

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Solid wall construction

• Load bearing walls are an easily erected form of
  structure. They are built up gradually block by
  block.
• Occasionally concrete is used as the walling
  medium, formwork has to be erected to create a
  mould for the liquid concrete.