Wall



A wall is a Masonry rising from the floor to a height, generally taller than people. Wall is used to divide rooms, to protect an area of a house or to hold a roof. The walls have been used since mesopotamian times; In this culture, the walls were made of fragile mud bricks, so they were thicker. To cover the walls, inhabitants of Mesopotamia used tiles that gave color to them.



In Egipt the adobe and stones where the construction materials. The stone for the walls was used in tombs and temples, while bricks were used in homes, even in the royal palaces, forts, of the enclosures walls to the temples and cities. A very important fact of the egipcyan culture is that the walls were covered with hieroglyphics and carvings painted in brilliant colors. The walls of ancient Greece and ancient Rome were made of bricks and cement, with the diference that on the inside the Greek house, the walls were whitewashed, and in the Roman houses the walls were covered with fresh paintings. In the Medieval age most of the important cities were surrounded with big walls to protect their population, and were covered with mosaics. Now, in the Modern age the walls can be made of almost any construction material, depending on function of the structure and can be cover with anything.

There are many different types of walls, these are the 4 most common: Standard wall (to divide a room), Structural wall (for the outsides of a structure), Masonry wall (for houses and buildings) and Retaining wall (for dams or reservoirs).