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Final Column Distribution

Opening context:
Columns at the Corners, Efficient Structure, Ceiling Height Variety

Conflict

How should the spacing of the secondary columns which stiffen the walls, vary with ceiling height, number of stories and the size of rooms?

Resolution

Make column stiffeners furthest apart on the ground floor and closer and closer together as you go higher in the building. the exact column spacings for a particular building will depend on heights and loads and wall thicknesses.

Mark in these extra stiffening columns as dots between the corner columns on the drawings you have made for different floors. Adjust them so they are evenly spaces between each pair of corner columns; but on any one floor, make sure that they are closer together along the walls of small rooms and further apart along the walls of large rooms.

Closing context:
Ceiling Height Variety, Wall Membranes, Box Columns