Structural Principle

The constructional strategies and framing systems that organize how a whole building carries its load, rather than a single load-bearing piece: post and lintel construction, the load-bearing wall, the balloon frame, the cantilever, the space frame, the geodesic dome and the tensile structure. Belongs here: any named approach to structural organization that a building's whole frame or shell follows. Does not belong here: the individual structural elements, such as the column or the truss, that a principle like post and lintel construction or the space frame is built from, grouped under structural element.