Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression, is a structural principle based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other and the prestressed tensioned members (usually cables or tendons) delineate the system spatially.
''From the first moment I saw this structure in the class of architecture I fell in love for it, I thought with myself ,I need to build something with it. I Invited some friends and after some fast sketches we did this prototype of a stool.
The beggining was like a puzzle, but after that we solved it we got a really beautiful and solid structure , based in the tension of the metal string around the pipes, nothing else to keep the structure.''
The beggining was like a puzzle, but after that we solved it we got a really beautiful and solid structure , based in the tension of the metal string around the pipes, nothing else to keep the structure.''
The idea was adopted into architecture in the 1960s when Maciej Gintowt and Maciej Krasiński, architects of Spodek, a venue in Katowice, Poland, designed it as one of the first major structures to employ the principle of tensegrity.
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With participation of:
Joao Pellanda
