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                                                                      		Any All other form{s} of massive arrangement of materials
                                                                      		for the support of vertical pressure are to be considered under
                                                                      		the general head of Pier supports.
                                                                      		All provisions made to enable a wall to bear any kind of
x.  Except when the scale of the building would render the            		lateral pressure are to be considered under the general
mass of necessary for a safe pier support, inconvenient               		head of Buttress supports
in internal arrangements.                                             		When the obtaining of seclusion or protection from
                                                                      		extr weather is a function of the wall as well as that
                                                                      		of vertical support, the simplest and best form will necessarily
                                                                      		be that of pillar or pier support with veils between the
                                                                      		pillars  (x)  When resistance of violence is added to
                                                                      		these functions the necessarily increased thickness of the
                                                                      		wall may render the roof entirely subordinate;  the wall
                                                                      		being much more than adequate to the weight it has to bear:
                                                                      		Or the roof may be altogether absent:
                                                                      		Our work therefore, in considering the walls of buildings
                                                                      		will be first, an analysis of the general idea of pier
                                                                      		or pillar support.
                                                                      		Secondly an analysis of the mode of unison of pier or
                                                                      		pillar support with wall veils
                                                                      		Thirdly, a consideration {of the forms} of walls whose mass
                                                                      		renders their function of vertical support subordinate.
                                                                      		Fourthly, the analysis of the general idea of Buttress
                                                                      		support

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