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	Tensile structure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An early large-scale use of a membrane-covered tensile structure is the truss-roofed exhibition pavilions for the Nizhny Novgorod Fair of 1896 by Vladimir Shukhov, and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, constructed in 1958.
		The roof tensile structures by Frei Otto of the Olympiapark, Munich
		Elizabeth Cooper English: “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”, a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tensile_architecture (1184 words)

	Fabric Architecture - System Structures - architectural, engineering and design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tensile fabric structures are an environmentally sensitive medium and an inexpensive way to create an organic form.
		The lack of widespread knowledge of this medium and the lack of recognition of this type of construction in building codes requires that the manufacturer provide a high degree of technical validation in order to fulfil their obligation to assure public safety and adherence to building codes.
		True tensile fabric structures are those in which every part of the fabric is in tension.
	home.clara.net /architecture/cpd.htm (1566 words)

	Red Sky Shelters : Red Sky Shelters : How the Tensile Yome Works
		Although Tensile Architecture is a fancy modern name for it, this is probably the oldest and simplest method human beings have devised to provide shelter.
		It was the first structure to introduce the organic and free flowing shapes of tensile architecture.
		Tensile structures are one of the most promising trends in contemporary architecture.
	redskyshelters.com /index.php?page=tensilehistory (2273 words)

	ACS Production Inc - The world of Textile Architecture!
		Compared to classic architecture, textile architecture involves the use of a smaller amount of material, an undisputable advantage for large projects.
		Tensile architecture is based on a tensioned membrane system, often using cables and wires, offering unlimited design possibilities.
		Textile architecture is respectful of the environment and allows a non-negligible economy of raw material.
	www.acsus.net /acswhatyoushouldknow.htm (347 words)

	Fabricon - Tensile Structures
		Translucent by day and luminescent at night, tensile architecture provides sustainable, cost effective, and artistic design solutions that interact with the environment.
		Large span tensile structures are a true collaborative effort between the architect, engineer, and the fabric contractor.
		Cables are often an integral part of tensile structures and are pre stressed to the appropriate loads to tension the fabric and prevent it from creeping.
	www.fabricon.com /pages/tensile_structures.htm (366 words)

	Wilsonart Laminate - The Statement: Homes on the Range
		The College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo dedicates itself to producing students who will easily slip into the practical world where buildings have to be built well, but within a set timeframe, code and budget.
		According to the November, 2002 Design Intelligence report (www.DI.net) which ranks the country’s best architecture programs as ranked by the principals of 150 top U.S architecture firms, Cal Poly students were ranked #2 in the nation next to Harvard.
		The University granted the architecture department nine acres of land previously used by the agricultural department in 1963.
	www.wilsonart.com /design/statement/printarticle.asp?articleID=68 (552 words)

	Metropolis By Design: Light Sensitive
		Tensile structures are expressive not only of the nature of the fabric, but also of the forces at work on it.
		Constructed of a polyester mesh in the shape of two elegant hyperbolic paraboloids (one of the basic building shapes of tensile architecture), the pavilion's membrane both diffuses sunlight into a fine, stippled pattern and allows air to vent.
		Goldsmith and Kiss are particularly aware both of the role architecture can play in sensitizing people to their environment and of the potential for new materials to enrich the life of buildings by creating a tissue of connectiveness rather than isolation.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0598/ma98bd.htm (1936 words)

	Fabric & Tensile Construction 02 - Topics - ArchitectureWeek Online Library
		As architectural researchers explore ways to exploit digital technologies in design and construction, their computers are shifting roles.
		Digital technology is helping to breed a new generations of architectural forms, some of which appear to be born of science fiction.
		In selecting four projects for its 2003 awards program, the Architectural Precast Association sought to demonstrate the imaginative application of these properties and to highlight the benefits of collaboration between architect and fabricator.
	www.architectureweek.com /topics/fabric-02.html (633 words)

	Untitled Document
		A special feature of Tensile membranes is that their form is completely integrated with their structure: the shape of the building is determined by the physical characteristics that maintain its strength, and that strength is achieved almost exclusively with tension forces.
		In other words, a tensile structures is a building that is made from materials under tension.
		The main requirements of tensile fabrics are strength, non - combustibility, long life, low heat absorption, resistance to dirt and easy cleaning, and ease of handling.
	web.njit.edu /~gcs3/TensileStructures.htm (444 words)

	Tensile Fabric Structures - fabric architecture - Fabric structures
		Specialising in the design, manufacture and installation bespoke tensile fabric structures for interior and exterior applications.
		Fabric Architecture specialises in both bespoke design and build structures as well as pre-designed and engineered "off the shelf" signature structures.
		The staff bring over 25 years experience in the field of fabric architecture, from concept to visualization, design, engineering, manufacture and installation.
	www.fabricarchitecture.co.uk (150 words)

	Fluotop textile architecture. Tensile structures for industrial building, awning and textile cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tensile structures for amphitheater roof, station roof, swimming pool roof and lightweight structure for stadium roof.
		Tensile structures for textile architecture : tensioned fabric and lightweight structure for modular industrial building and logistic platform.
		Tensile structure for facade awning, lightweight structures, inflatable structure.
	www.ferrari-textiles.com /fluotop/index_gb.asp (293 words)

	Tensile structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tensile structure with Fluotop, the most effective tensioned fabric for the tensile structure.
		The most effective tensile structure for the textile architecture.
		Textile architecture - lightweight structures - tensile structures -
	www.ferrari-textiles.com /fluotop/gb/tensile_structure.htm (40 words)

	Fabric Architecture by TricoShade: FAQ
		Fabric architecture is a relatively new architectural form that has been gaining in popularity over the last 30 - 40 years.
		Also called tensile membrane architecture, tension membrane architecture or fabric membrane structure architecture, it refers to structures that are composed mainly of steel frames with fabric tent-like roofs made of material (such as the polyethylene shadecloth netting used by TricoShade) that is held under tension.
		This form of architecture is well suited for sheltering large public areas, such as stadiums, arenas, outdoor shelters, and airport terminals.
	www.tricoshade.com /fabricarchitecture.htm (760 words)

	Fabric canopies for tensile structures - fabric architecture
		Fabric, being flexible and normally woven, is a ‘live’ medium that stretches across the diagonal to a greater extent than in the direction of the weave, one can most easily see this with a piece of netting.
		Silicon glass has a much higher tensile strength than polyester; however, being glass is brittle.
		To over come this, the fibres are made to a very small diameter but are still subject to damage from repeated flexing.
	www.fabricarchitecture.co.uk /db_fabrics.htm (617 words)

	Vrije Universiteit Brussel :: burgerlijk ingenieur-architect :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tomorrow's architecture will again be minimal architecture, an architecture of the self-forming and self-optimization processes suggested by human beings.
		Tensile Architecture is a facinating way of building.
		Tensile Architecture is a field where 'Architectural Engineering' has its full meaning.
	www.vub.ac.be /ARCH/uitgaven/tensinet.html (594 words)

	Building design Tensile Fabric Structures tensile fabric structure steel canopies
		The company’s in depth knowledge of the creative potential of fabric architecture and unrivalled capabilities in the design, manufacture and installation of tensile fabric structures, stems from over twenty years of experience in the field.
		Tensile fabric structures are a dramatic and exciting method of construction, allowing curvature, translucency and the ability to spectacularly light both internal and external spaces.
		The visual delicacy created by fabric architecture has led to the conception that tensioned structures are temporary building types.
	www.buildingdesign.co.uk /facil-group5/architen-landrell/index.htm (786 words)

	Architen Landrell : Tensile Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Expressing the natural qualities of architectural membranes brings curvature, translucency and clear spans to external and internal space.
		Modern architectural fabrics are capable of unprecedented spans, enabling building volumes where the sensation is of lightness rather than massive engineering.
		exhibition structures, tensile sails, fabric sculptures, fabric screens, fabric ceilings, fabric architecture, fabric structures, fabric engineering, tension structures, tensile structures, architen landrell, fabric canopies, teflon fabric, teflon structures, pvc membrane, tensile membrane, tent structures, membrane structures, tensile design, brise-soleil
	www.architen.com /profile/architen-landrell-architecture.html (429 words)

	College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
		Berger, known for his open air, light-flooded "tensile" structures, is a professor of architecture at the City College of New York and principal in Light Structure Design/Horst Berger.
		Berger sees architecture as the raising of technology to an art form to create the spaces which house human activity.
		"Tensile architecture achieves this with one integrated structural surface accomplishing all the things which, in conventional buildings, require the combination of many additive elements," he said.
	www.engr.utexas.edu /news/articles/20000330238/index.cfm (445 words)

	Sandbag Shelter Prototypes, various locations, 2002-2004
		While these load-bearing or compression forms refer to the ancient mudbrick architecture of the Middle East, the use of barbed wire as a tensile element alludes to the portable tensile structures of nomadic cultures.
		In 1991 he founded the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (Cal-Earth), a non-profit research and educational organization that covers everything from construction on the moon and on Mars to housing design and development for the world’s homeless for the United Nations.
		It employs vernacular forms, integrating load-bearing and tensile structures, but provides a remarkable degree of strength and durability for this type of construction, which is traditionally weak and fragile, through a composite system of sandbags and barbed wire.
	www.akdn.org /agency/akaa/ninthcycle/page_03txt.htm (887 words)

	DEsignkites - the total kite experience - DEsigns
		Tensegrity is the name for a synergy between a co-existing pairs of fundamental physical laws; of push and pull, and compression and tension, or repulsion and attraction.
		Since the 1960s, tensile structures have been championed by designers and engineers such as Frei Otto, the duo of Nicholas Goldsmith and Todd Dalland at FTL Design and Engineering Studio, Horst Berger, and David Geiger.
		The lightweight tensile shapes are the inspiration for some new single line kite models.
	www.designkites.com /designs/index.php?id=21 (241 words)

	Beyond ADA - April 2006 Industry Spotliight
		Another application of tensile principles in architectural history has been the suspension bridge.
		Thus, while tension-based architecture has been used since ancient times, until about 50 years ago, almost every permanent structure in the world was based on compression loading, or the act of pushing together.
		Considered to be a form of sustainable architecture, tension structures saw a renewed interest in the 1950s, in large part due to the pioneering work of German architect Frei Otto.
	www.caddetails.com /spotlight/jul06/article.htm (805 words)

	A Technology for Designing Tensegrity Domes and Spheres
		The technology is based on the tensegrity approach to space frame design which strictly segregates compressive and tensile forces among the members of the frame.
		This is due to their maximization of the tensile components of the structure which allows them to take full advantage of the progress has been made in deriving larger tensile strengths from materials.[See Davis70 pp.
		2-3 for data on metals, and Jang94 for the huge tensile strengths obtained from fibers of various materials.] The resulting light weight allows tensegrity structures to encompass very large areas with minimal support at their perimeters, obviating the "heavy anchorage devices"[Motro87, p.
	members.tripod.com /bobwb/prospect/prospect.htm (5417 words)

	Light Structures - Structures of Light: The Art and Engineering of Tensile Architecture Illustrated by the Work of ...
		His work was instrumental in bringing tensile technology and design into the real world of architecture on a very large scale.
		His main objectives were: to create large span spaces with less effort and more grace, to enrich architectural spaces, make architecture more widely affordable and bring buildings more in tune with the environment.
		As a member of C.W.Fentress J.H.Bradburn and Associates, the Denver architectural firm in charge of the final design of the terminal building, John had played an important role during the design and construction of the project and we had made this trip together many times before.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~26128.aspx (338 words)

	tensARC - profile - design and engineering of tensile structures
		Keith studied architecture at the University Of Dundee, graduating in 1996 with an honours degree.
		During his time at Dundee he developed close links with the departments lightweight structure unit, developing both his design skills and structural understanding in the field of lightweight structures and temporary architecture, through projects including a temporary theatre and a demountable hotel.
		Paul has experience in developing and testing structural solutions in reinforced concrete, steel, timber, timber composites, aluminium, grp, carbon fibre and tensile fabric membranes.
	www.tensarc.co.uk /html-2/profile.html (667 words)

	Fabric & Tensile Construction 01 - Topics - ArchitectureWeek Online Library
		The 10.8-million-square-foot convention complex, which opened in April 2006, has a mile-long canopy that wows visitors with its whimsical flair, transforming a glass and steel structure into a fabric that billows and then touches down like tornados to the floor.
		This year the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) marked its first quarter century of involvement in promoting the use of computers to enhance design creativity in architecture, planning, and building science.
		Although precast concrete is an outstanding architectural material, its heavy weight can limit where and how it's used.
	www.architectureweek.com /topics/fabric-01.html (522 words)

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