DESIGN, STRUCTURAL AND BUILDING PHYSICAL PROBLEMS FOR BUILT-UP GARRET SPACES

Abstract

In the past decades, the volume of built-up garret spaces has significantly increased throughout Europe, hence also in this country, primarily, to increase housing stock, but also to utilize garrets for other functions. Garret-space building-up raised significant architectural, structural, building physical problems not always reckoned with by designers and constructors. An attempt is made to recapitulate all design, structural and building physical principles likely to help to develop correct solutions of building-up. Various methods of building-up, correct solutions for layer systems under roofings will be listed, completed with other scopes of importance for roof and wall structures, illumination, thermal engineering and the like, here only superficially treated, illustrated in diagrams (Fig. 1-11).