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Load path and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.

constrained_by — Above a few hundred metres the governing load is lateral, not vertical: the wing setbacks were tuned in the wind tunnel to break up organised vortex shedding rather than for appearance.governs — The arch exists to route load as compression along a curve and to convert what would be bending in a beam into thrust at the springing.governs — The frame is defined by taking the load path out of the wall entirely and running it down a cage of columns, which is what releases the wall for other uses.governs — A stone lintel spans by bending, and stone is weak in tension, so the load path sets the span ceiling of post-and-lintel construction directly.Load pathLoad pathBurj KhalifaBurj KhalifaThe voussoir archThe voussoir archMegalithic post-and-lintel constructionMegalithic post-and-linte…The steel skeleton frameThe steel skeleton frame
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  1. Burj Khalifa · constrained_by · Load path

    Above a few hundred metres the governing load is lateral, not vertical: the wing setbacks were tuned in the wind tunnel to break up organised vortex shedding rather than for appearance.

  2. Load path · governs · The voussoir arch

    The arch exists to route load as compression along a curve and to convert what would be bending in a beam into thrust at the springing.

  3. Load path · governs · The steel skeleton frame

    The frame is defined by taking the load path out of the wall entirely and running it down a cage of columns, which is what releases the wall for other uses.

  4. Load path · governs · Megalithic post-and-lintel construction

    A stone lintel spans by bending, and stone is weak in tension, so the load path sets the span ceiling of post-and-lintel construction directly.