As with any type of vault, its structural resistance depends on its geometry. With the partitioning technique, one can build from simple surfaces such as barrel vaults, handkerchief vaults and spherical or elliptical domes, such as those of Guastavino, to more complex ruled and revolution surfaces or those that can be armed, such as those made, for example, by Gaudí and Dieste. Furthermore, they can be made from a single layer of brick or, more frequently, from several.

In any case, the construction process is always identical: After marking the guidelines and generators of the surface to be built on the support walls and, following these references, without using formwork of any kind, successive rows of light and very thin bricks (rasillas) are created that are glued along their edges until the surface is closed in the geometric center of the area to be covered. In the first layer, it is essential to use plaster as a binder, since it sets quickly, but in the following layers (or "folding"), mortars "Mortar (construction)") that are more resistant to stress and humidity such as mortar or, modernly, cement, are always used, placing the bricks so that the joints of each layer have a different angle than those of the joints of the adjacent layers to achieve a more resistant set.

In Extremadura (mainly the province of Badajoz and the south of Cáceres) and the bordering Portuguese region of Alentejo, they are usually single-layer groin vaults, with simple or solid hollow bricks of little thickness and two elliptical arches (actually they would be two toroids) that intersect in the center of the covered room forming edges from the corners.[15]​[16]​[17]​ In the Valencian Community, double-shell domes are typical, the outer one to support a roof and the inner one for decorative purposes, leaving an air chamber that can be visited between the two. In Catalonia, lowered barrel vaults are common and, in modernist buildings, paraboloid shapes are common.[7]​.

Until very recently, it was very common in almost all of Spain to form the structure of the stairs with partitioned vaults, almost always with several layers and in the shape of an inverted catenary, since since the use of formwork was not needed, it was more economical than making the reinforced concrete staircase.

As with any type of vault, its structural resistance depends on its geometry. With the partitioning technique, one can build from simple surfaces such as barrel vaults, handkerchief vaults and spherical or elliptical domes, such as those of Guastavino, to more complex ruled and revolution surfaces or those that can be armed, such as those made, for example, by Gaudí and Dieste. Furthermore, they can be made from a single layer of brick or, more frequently, from several.

In any case, the construction process is always identical: After marking the guidelines and generators of the surface to be built on the support walls and, following these references, without using formwork of any kind, successive rows of light and very thin bricks (rasillas) are created that are glued along their edges until the surface is closed in the geometric center of the area to be covered. In the first layer, it is essential to use plaster as a binder, since it sets quickly, but in the following layers (or "folding"), mortars "Mortar (construction)") that are more resistant to stress and humidity such as mortar or, modernly, cement, are always used, placing the bricks so that the joints of each layer have a different angle than those of the joints of the adjacent layers to achieve a more resistant set.

In Extremadura (mainly the province of Badajoz and the south of Cáceres) and the bordering Portuguese region of Alentejo, they are usually single-layer groin vaults, with simple or solid hollow bricks of little thickness and two elliptical arches (actually they would be two toroids) that intersect in the center of the covered room forming edges from the corners.[15]​[16]​[17]​ In the Valencian Community, double-shell domes are typical, the outer one to support a roof and the inner one for decorative purposes, leaving an air chamber that can be visited between the two. In Catalonia, lowered barrel vaults are common and, in modernist buildings, paraboloid shapes are common.[7]​.

Until very recently, it was very common in almost all of Spain to form the structure of the stairs with partitioned vaults, almost always with several layers and in the shape of an inverted catenary, since since the use of formwork was not needed, it was more economical than making the reinforced concrete staircase.