10/15/2015
This week I have been looking at different ways to understand my current tensegrity structures.  I have made a larger icosahedron model to hopefully be better able to experiment with different cladding systems.  As a sidenote this new model is made using fishing line so as to make the compression members appear to be floating.  I am looking at the works and writings of Norman Foster and Peter Eisenman this week.  These two primarily because they are very much so interested in the envelope as much if not more so than the structure which Frei and Fuller seem to be more interested in.  I am going to look at several cladding systems using soap bubbles and more simple and complex methods.  I also got the idea to look into different loading systems that appear not to be in use until they are activated.  The inspiration for this idea came from the hangglider which has several wires that are only in use at certain moments in flight, takeoff, and landing as well as ground handling.  Is it possible to make a structure perform this way in part?  How can form be derived from both external conditions as well as internal variances while adhering to tensegrity of structure?  Can tensegrity adapt to changes in the external environment while maintaining and creating internal conditions?
Can tensegrity responds to both internal and external situations that affect form?

 

Soap bubble experiment