Properties+and+Shapes

The shape of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as colour, content, and material composition.

The most basic and employed shapes of construction are:

- Square - Cube - Parallelepipeds (Beams and columns usually come in these shapes) - Circles (Staircases) - Cylinders - Spheres - Arches (structural systems of trusses) - Triangles - Pyramids