Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Identify the basic structural properties for building
• Evaluate the structural requirements in building structures
• Discuss the structural arrangement of the components of a
• building
• Explain how structural efficiency is affected with regards to
• structural forms and shapes
• Explain the meaning of compressive structures in architecture
• Define tensile structures in architecture
• Explain how the roof and lateral loads are born by walls in
• load bearing structures.
• Identify structures that are considered as temporary
• structures