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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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