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PLANAR ELEMENTS

A compelling way to use the vertical wall plane is as a supporting element in the
bearing-wall structural system. When arranged in a parallel series to support
an overhead floor or roof plane, bearing walls define linear slots of space with
strong directional qualities. These spaces can be related to one another only by
interrupting the bearing walls to create perpendicular zones of space.
Peyrissac Residence, Cherchell, North Africa, 1942, Le Corbusier

Country House in Brick, Project, 1923, Mies van der Rohe

In the project to the right, freestanding brick bearing walls,
together with L-shaped and T-shaped configurations of
planes, create an interlocking series of spaces.
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