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CH 4.2 Composition and Function of Building A building is composed of many elements. For example, take the house in Fig. 4.1, which includes foundations, walls or columns, floors, roofs, staircases, doors, windows, balconies, etc. They can be classified into two parts: enclosing structures and load-bearing structures. Fig. 4. 1 Composition of a dwelling building dwelling (housing that someone is living in) Enclosing Structures Enclosing ( the act of enclosing something inside something else) The function of a building is achieved by means of enclosing structures that make the buildi