Tensegrity structures and their application to architecture

Tensegrity structures and their application to architecture

Edición digital del libro en papel impreso en el año 2010. Tensegrity structures are really intriguing: bars floating in the air, without any contact to a solid support, attached only by wires to other bars… that are also floating in the air! The aim of this work is to serve as an introduction to such an atypical kind of structure. It tries to explain everything about the controversial origins and polemic fatherhood; tensegrities from various fields, other than Architecture, structural principles, characteristics, advantages and weakness; precedent and current works and patents; and finally, some new proposals, proving that it is possible to find some applications to architectural and engineering purposes. In conclusion, this work tries to be a guide and reference to a new world of structural possibilities that is blooming and finding its path.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • Abstract
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Background and History
  • Chapter 3. Precedents and Key Studies
  • Chapter 4. Definitions and Basic Principles
  • Chapter 5. Typologies, classification and assemblies
  • Chapter 6. Applications
  • Chapter 7. Proposals by the author
  • Chapter 8. Discussion and conclusions
  • Appendix A. Motro's correspondence from Snelson
  • Appendix B. Original Tensegrity Patents
  • Appendix C. Other Tensegrity Patents
  • Appendix D. Personal correspondence
  • Appendix E. Deflection of the expanded octahedron
  • Appendix F. Tensegrity Models
  • Appendix G. Renders
  • Appendix H. Plans
  • Appendix I. Extended Bibliography
  • Bibliography
  • List of illustrations

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