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return wall

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return wall [ri′tərn ‚wȯl]
(building construction)
An interior wall of about the same height as the outside wall of a building; distinct from a partition or a low wall.

return wall
A short wall usually perpendicular to, and at the end of, a freestanding wall to increase its structural stability.


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These photographs all about "Canada" return Wall to the territory from which he first launched his career, and so in the process end up occupying a synchronous time zone in his generational remembrance of things past.
A report by a mamber of the Bristol- based Planning Inspectorate states: "The proposed unit would be set back from the highway, against the return wall of a house.
Adjacent to the main facade is a vertical cylindrical facade, and a return wall connects this to the main facade.
 
 
 
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