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• Barcelona Tensegrity Tower
  Read here about a tower constructed according to tensegrity principles. The following photos were taken by the students and uploaded to Flickr.
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• Kreze, Luka
  [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Atelier Architecture
  ...h minimal material use – Urban Trees is able to span six-meters vertically to suspend a canopy of reflective elements while only weighing 15kg. Research [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Rhode-Barbarigos, Landolf
  [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• 12 Strut Chair by Rasmussen
  ...asmussen and Katharina Stoll led the design effort. The chair was deployed to the 2011 Trans Pecos Festival of Love and Music in Marfa, Texas as part of .... The tendons were string. The seat was composed of three more tubes added to one open 'window' or face of the tensegrity.
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• Sterk, Tristan D'estree
  ...f building envelopes that actively adjust and shape themselves in relation to the natural environment, its seasons and weather. With this they offer grea [[Category:Portal to robotics]]
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• Howard, T. C
  Read here about an architect and designer who was a critical contributor to early work on tensegrity. [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Tensegrity Pavilion AA School 2010
  Read here about a proposed pavilion constructed according to tensegrity principles, by architecture students as part of their architectu ...ry schemes; packing of the smallest possible geometry, parametric response to the environment, and form finding. These schemes are the basis of the main
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• Deployable Structures
  ...st common is that the configuration changes from a packaged, compact state to a deployed, large state. Usually, these structures are used for easy storag [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Alexy, Christian
  Link to thesis is on this page: http://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/volltexte/2005/419/index [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Bragdon, Claude
  ...can architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City. His books on democracy, fourth dimensio ...y ornamentation for the built environment. The ornaments could be attached to existing structures like skin on bone. Fuller, on the contrary, sought new
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• Bartosik, Michal Maciej
  ...he role of gravity in his structural training: the law of gravity dictated to build up through a system of strata, stacking one element onto the other. T ...r western perception of social spaces however codified, can too be reduced to this gravitational paradox between structural conventions.
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• Otto, Frei
  Read here about a person significant to tensegrity research. ...ional methods of calculating structural stresses. His designs are regarded to have been heavily influenced by Australian architect Barry Patten, and his
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• ADAM Collapsible Truss System
  ...e base, which swivels each bay in turn upon spherical hinges and causes it to spring into a rigid box, as shown by Figure 3-18. Each box is then stiffene [[Category:Portal To Architecture]]
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• Frame
  ...arch and utitilization matures, the word is used more frequently, to refer to parts of tensegrity structures in relation with other parts. ...A" to another subsystem "B" that, in being framed by "A", depends upon "A" to cohere and function. The dual nature of the word "frame" is preserved wheth
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• Jakob Tensegrity Torus
  Jakob AG, a Swiss rope-system manufacturer, decided to construct a large Tensegrity Torus in 2006. Architect Filippo Broggini was [[Category:Portal to Art & Design]]
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• Floor
  ...Because floors meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict building codes. ..., to avoid any deformation of the surface as people walk from floor's edge to its center.
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• Musil, Josef
  [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Needle Tower
  ...[Snelson, Kenneth|Kenneth Snelson's]] most well known works, partially due to its location on the Washington DC Mall. ...less steel cable. It measures 60 x 20 x 20 feet, 18.2 x 6 x 6m. It belongs to the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
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• Skylon
  ...r whether these supported its gravity-defying architecture, or anchored it to the ground. Dramatic by day, Skylon was even more radical, and exciting at ...thing became a stressed structure. This reduced the number of wires needed to anchor the Skylon and halved the amount of oscillation in the structure."
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• Tensegrity Goes Blob by Trier University
  ...sculpture, based on a proposed pavilion design, both constructed according to tensegrity principles, by architecture students as part of their architectu ...e. A tensegrity sphere is extended with a series of tensegrity twist units to form a freeform geometry in the topology of a Klein bottle.
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• Geodesic Dome
  ...ing a dome as a tensegrity, the usual difficulties of mapping tensegrities to related polyhedral forms set in. ...nsegrity dome' or sphere is by its nature as soft as a marshmallow; no way to avoid that as long as one stays with discontinuity. Most important: it's no
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• Tensegrity Tower by Ondrej Otypka
  ...nd a filling transparent elastic membrane. Such a structure is better able to resist the effects of wind. [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Cuthbert, Robby
  [[Category:Portal to Art & Design]]
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• Hanaor, Ariel
  Below, a link to "the concept of structural depth as applied to certain bar-tendon assemblies". ...d. Hanaor proposes the term "bar-tendon" as a more accurate term referring to the classic tensegrity construction. Furthermore, Hanaor agrees with [[Snel
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• Tomassian, Raffi
  ...higher up. That climber upper will require more skill and daring to use. To be executed in stainless steel or bronze tubing with stainless steel cable. ==Stairway to Heaven==
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• Pavilion
  ...ation or display in their intended use. Pavilions often feature a verandah to provide protection from the sun for spectators, such structures are often d ...etry and rigorous non-linear analysis to optimise the size of all elements to achieve efficient use of materials.
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• Della Sala, Francesco
  Returning to Naples, in 1951 he designed, together with Carlo Cocchia and Giulio De Luca ...the "Tensegrity Tetrahedron." Image from Section 2.4 of A Practical Guide to Tensegrity Design, Burkhardt. Link: http://bobwb.tripod.com/synergetics/pho
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• Tensegrity Goes Blob Photo Gallery
  This page contains photographs related to the Tensegrity Goes Blob project undertaken by the Architecture students of To read more about the project, read the [[Tensegrity Goes Blob by Trier Unive
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• Arch
  =Method to transform a tower to an arch= ...hat preserves the equilibrium equations. We then characterize the manifold to which classical tensegrity systems belong, which gives insight into the for
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• Suspended Bridge by Paradiso
  ...es, known with the name of “veloroutes8” that is expected to connect Cadiz to Athens. This bicycle route would connect all European countries among each “Canale Cavour” is the name assigned to the historical landscape. “Canale Cavour” is a masterpiece of cultural
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• 6 Strut Suspended Chair by ETS
  [[Category:Portal to Art & Design]]
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• Achkov, Konstantin
  ...ey require intelligent decisions that attracted me to follow the challenge to find my solutions in the construction of this type of furniture. Chair and table rotated to two different heights:
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• Augmented Reality
  Read here about augmented reality applications relevant to tensegrity research. ...niversity. The lab developed a new method, incorporating AR/MR technology, to help with constructing tensegrity structures. During the 2013 demonstration
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• Tree
  Read here about tensegrity concepts as they relate to the tree. A tree is considered here to be any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which su
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• Prairie House by Orambra
  ...consumes only 26,156,578 btu and emits only 3,246 Lb of CO2. This compares to the average house in Illinois that measures 2051 square feet and consumes 6 We use sensor data to transform standardized assemblies into highly contextual ones via responsiv
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• Nexorade
  Read here about nexorades, a type of structure that, due to its interwoven nature, shares many features with tensegrity structures. ...us Roelofs was a leading researcher in these structures, tracing them back to a drawing in Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks.
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• Underwood Pavilion Photo Gallery
  To read about the design and creation of this pavilion, see [[Underwood Pavili [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Tension Pavilion 2016 Photo Gallery
  [[Category:Portal to Architecture.]]
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• Torus
  ...bagel, or hemorrhoid cushion. the round, ring-like form formal name given to the "doughnut" form, being a circumference [[file:Tension Pavilion Grasshopper Model.jpg|thumb|500px|none|A torus, bent to support fabric, is formed by 24 3-strut tensegrity prisms. Vision at the Lo
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• MOOM Pavillion
  ...nsegrity system. The 131 bars are various lengths and do not touch, opting to create a synthesis of skin and structure via a system of sewn-on sheaths th ...mbrane screens off 80% of the UV radiation, but allows 50% of the daylight to pass through, the softly filtered light creates a fascinating spatial impre
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• Blur Building by Diller & Scofidio
  ...one|The building was clad in steam, avoiding the need to attached cladding to the tensile web.]] [[Category:Portal to Architecture]]
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• Tension Pavilion 2016
  ...week. It has been designed to be suitable for external use and is designed to resist 75mph winds. ...r guy ropes. Pioneering research into the system by Fuller and Snelson led to a series of sculptural experiments, but pure tensegrity has rarely been uti
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• Tension
  ...week. It has been designed to be suitable for external use and is designed to resist 75mph winds. ...r guy ropes. Pioneering research into the system by Fuller and Snelson led to a series of sculptural experiments, but pure tensegrity has rarely been uti
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• Lightness
  ...inson wrote about lightness [1], below are excerpts of that essay relevant to tensegrity. ...als on a sunny day has inspired architects of past and current generations to incorporate water into their designs. Reflecting pools can add lightness an
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• Tensegrity
  ...s. The idea has been applied to a broad range of phenomena from philosophy to cellular mechanics. ...is dedicated to explaining tensegrity, this page mostly consists of links to other pages with more details.
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• Tensegrita (Italian)
  ...tline: The main mechanism of vertebral manipulation in current practice is to take a segmented approach. Recent experience in manual medicine and movemen [[Category:Portal to Languages]]
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• Dynamics
  ...escribes the motion of objects without consideration of the causes leading to the motion. ..., being structures that can change their morphology, or shape, in response to control signals.
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• Burning Man
  ...m members such as Isotopia and Sputnik compare the noise of foil and mylar to "living in an electrical storm the whole time with the way the mylar made c ...to the knit or woven fiber network. Google "DIY sail makers" to learn how to tape the corners correctly for the load and grommet. The sail making articl
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• Lorance, Loretta
  ...2004. Her goal was to trace Fuller's activities and reveal how he decided to design and promote the Dymaxion House. Professor Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Ci ...ognition Award] in her name. It is granted to a member who has contributed to the growth and success of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Assoc
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