Skeleton Frame

            A skeleton frame is the interior framework of a building that can be made of wood or steel.  Often houses skeleton frames are made of wood and the frames of tall buildings like sky scrapers are made of steel.  Walls are later built around the skeleton frame to create the structure. “The walls attach to the frame, forming an exterior skin” (Sporre 92).  Learning about the skeleton frame in architecture makes me imagine that every building is much like the human body.  The structure needs the skeleton frame or bones to support the entire building or body!  The walls are the skin of the structure as Sporre described, and design elements are essential to the success of structure just as organs are essential the body. 

                                                  

                                            

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Sporre, Dennis J. Reality Through the Arts. 8th ed. N.p: Pearson, n.d www.coursemart. 2013. Web 6 Feb. 2013