Multi storey building

Claim 1

A multi-story building structure comprising horizontally spaced vertical structural members extending upwardly from the ground level, each said member comprising a plurality of interconnected sub-length vertical sections, and a number of vertically stacked housing units each in the form of a rigid box, said units forming at least the stories above the ground floor of the structure, the length of each said section being substantially equal to the height of each said box, each said section at each level of the structure being connected at its opposite ends to each said box at each said level near two vertically spaced corners thereof, each said box thereby being connected to said sections at each said level near each of its eight corners, whereby the weight of each said box is solely supported by said verticaL members so that said boxes constitute the sole means transferring horizontal loads between said vertical members, a plate bracket at the respective upper and lower ends of each said section, means interconnecting respective ones of said upper and lower brackets of vertically adjacent sections for each said member, and an outwardly extending horizontal plate member on each said box near the upper corners thereof respectively connected to said upper brackets of respective ones of said vertically adjacent sections.