Patent ID: 7836646

Claim:
A wall construction for a building structure having a roof and a foundation for defining an internal space of the building structure, the wall construction comprising: an outer wall sharing its own dead load and built on the foundation of the structure, wherein the outer wall has a Distributed and Unbonded Prestress bricklaying construction in which bricks and metal plates are stacked, the bricks and the metal plates have bolt holes therein, fasteners extend through the bolt holes in the bricks and the bolt holes of the metal plates, and the fasteners are tightened so that vertically adjacent bricks are integrally connected with each other under prestress of the fasteners, each of the metal plates being interposed between upper and lower vertically adjacent bricks to be in contact with an upper face of the lower brick and a lower face of the upper brick under the prestress; an inner wall sharing its own dead load and constructed to support a vertical load of the roof, wherein the inner wall defines the internal space in conjunction with the roof and the foundation; and a shear reinforcement member made of a metal plate extending along the inner and outer walls, wherein the shear reinforcement member connects the outer wall and the inner wall with each other and transmits a shearing force of the inner wall to the outer wall, wherein the shear reinforcement member has an inner end portion fixed to the inner wall, and an outer end portion positioned on at least one brick or between vertically adjacent courses of the bricks and fixed to an upper surface of the at least one brick by a tightening force of the fastener, for transmitting a seismic force acting on the roof and the inner wall to the outer wall by means of the shear reinforcement member.