none, a mass structure is pretty much just like your house! its built to hold up weight.
Yes. I don't see why not. It would also depend on the size and structure of the shop and what is willing to be spent in order to refurbish or modify the structure.
The bathrooms in the average 4 bedroom house have varies according to who designed and built the house. Generally one would want at least 2 bath rooms but some only have one or one and a half if the home is older.
Stupid loads would affect a structure!
To provide an accurate description of your house when it was built, I would need specific details about its architectural style, layout, materials, and any distinctive features. Generally, houses reflect the design trends of their time, which could include elements like a certain type of siding, roofing materials, and window styles. Additionally, the landscaping and surrounding environment would also play a role in its original appearance. If you have any specific information or historical context, I can help create a more vivid picture.
Houses can only be made to resist earthquakes. They can only be designed and constructed to permit a minimum amount of damage when a quake hits. A big enough quake will destroy about any structure. It may be possible to build an "earthquake proof" house by making it extremely small and building it out of moderately thick reinforced concrete, welded plate steel or something like that which is both strong and rigid. If an appropriately designed structure was sitting on an appropriate pad (but separate from it), a huge quake would only succeed in moving the house around because it would be too small and strong to "break" under the stress. If such a structure was built, a quake would probably, at most, shear off (or tear off flexible) water, gas and waste water lines while making a mess out of the inside.A structure like the one described would probably be minimally functional and no fun to live in. It may be possible to engineer a "floating" rigid structure out of other materials, but anything on this order would cost a mint. You might always build the whole thing out of rubber and dump the rigid idea. That way when the shaking stops, everything returns to its normal shape. Everything on the inside would be a mess, though. Those (the completely rigid and "unbreakable" structure or the completely "flexible" one) are the two ideas that will withstand a quake. Combining the two will involve trade-offs that will almost certainly defeat the project. Think about this problem and you may come up with other ideas. They are also are made of steel, fiber glass, and woodcarboardstealyour mom's apronshoe laces in stress points
none, a mass structure is pretty much just like your house! its built to hold up weight.
Skyscrapers are built at the location where they will always be. The structure is so large that it would be impossible to move once built. The materials would be transported to the construction site and the skyscraper would be built there.
Your House is considered a "Structure". So damage to the structure would mean damage to your home.
This would be the Lake Atatürk Dam, which was built by Turkey.
To provide an accurate answer, I would need to know which specific structure you are referring to. Please provide the name or details of the structure in question.
If you live in an area prone to Earthquakes with the risk of large earthquakes and are looking for a solution to securing your houses structure, you can not do this in a "do-it-yourself" fashion. Depending on when the house was built, it likely is already built to not collapse in an earthquake if it is newer, otherwise, you would need a contractor and a lot of money to make the necessary improvements to your houses foundation and structure.
Depending on the size of your room.It doesn't matter how much it would cost because the way houses are constructed. If you live in a one story house the floors are cement or if you have wooden floors they couldn't be removed. The structure of the house is built up from the floors so they are part of the house. The house is framed onto the foundation that makes the floors.
There can be no earthquake proof building. To build such a structure would be prohibitively expensive.In the recent Christchurch earthquake, the peak ground acceleration was over 2 g. To design for this is not economically feasible.And as the question suggests, the survival of a building/structure is a property of both the structure itself, and the ground on which it stands.
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a medieval merchant would either live in a seperate house in the same village/town or have his house built into his shop :)
In the past I have found that finding problems with a house you just purchased later on is difficult to pursue. The problem with this issue is that I am not sure what you are referring to and the plumbing may not have been out of code when the house was built. You would have better luck going after the inspector. It is your house now. Have it properly re-plumbed.
Well if you believe in God and the whole creation of the world. Than it would be Adam and Eve's house.