Not sure what category this falls under but I’m curious. My bad if my flair is way off.
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It depends on scale, I believe. Buildings like tall skyscrapers have specific mechanisms to be able to endure or say through earthquakes, high winds, or other natural disasters, some of which involve flexible parts or fun physics.
If you’re talking about when a normal house creaks or pops, that’s just from heat/cold causing the frame to expand or contract. Heat causes material of any kind to expand or contract, but it’s usually not noticeable. On the scale of a house, this can become an inch or a few centimeters which is enough to build up stress that, when released, result in the sounds we hear.
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