Moving or Strengthening of Attic Wall

[ranzor]

Hello,
I'm wondering if there's a constructor or someone who knows about load-bearing walls here on byggahus? We need to redo the floor plan on the upper floor of our 1930s house, which means a load-bearing kneewall needs to be removed.

Original drawing, this is how the house was built in the 30s


This is how it looks today, a wall on the lower floor has been removed, and a beam has been installed with posts on each side, as well as the opening in a wall has been widened. On the upper floor, half of the kneewall has been removed, but no alteration that we can see.


This is how we want to rebuild, the white "wall" is the kneewall where it stands today that we want to remove, either through a glulam beam or if it can be solved by making the new wall between the rooms the load-bearing wall instead, essentially like moving the kneewall inward?

The kneewall is currently made with tongue and groove wood walls, approximately 120x20 timber, the wall is about 4 meters long, and there are 2 studs in the wall that are 165cm from the outer wall and then 70cm apart. On top of these, there's a beam about 150x50 which is embedded in the outer wall and the opposite wall. At the outer wall and towards the opposite wall, there's a doorway in the kneewall, so the actual plank wall is about 2.5 meters in the middle.


Does anyone have tips on the best solution, should a glulam beam replace the kneewall, or could it be shifted and let the new inner wall become a load-bearing wall?