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2001 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Tensegrity Systems

verfasst von : René Motro, Nicolas Vassart

Erschienen in: Deployable Structures

Verlag: Springer Vienna

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During an exhibition devoted to construction, held in Moscow in 1921, Johanssen presented a sculpture made with three struts and eight cables. This system had no rigidity, and its mechanisms could be activated with one of the cables. It was a kind of “ proto-form ”. In 1948, Kenneth Snelson worked with Richard Buckminster Fuller, in Black Mountain College. Fuller wanted to realize his idea of “ islands of compression inside a sea of tension ”. In response, Snelson made three models (see Motro, 1996).

Metadaten
Titel
Tensegrity Systems
verfasst von
René Motro
Nicolas Vassart
Copyright-Jahr
2001
Verlag
Springer Vienna
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2584-7_10