Future Visions
Interactive Tensegrity Pavilion – IASS 2015 -Innovative Structures Exhibition
Exhibition in Muziekgebouw, AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, 2015
The Interactive Tensegrity Pavilion is based on an invented tensegrity configuration that assumes a bounding ellipsoidal geometry than can enclose functional space. The tensegrity structure serves as the skeleton of the pavilion, while a flexible skin surface, attached on the rigid members of the structure, further confines its space. The structure interacts with conditions in its environment resulting in a subtle deformation of its figure. A basic feature of the geometric configuration of the pavilion skeleton is a long compression member that permits the suspension of the entire structure from two points.
Geometric processes and algorithms have been developed to precisely determine the geometry of both the skeleton structure and flexible skin. In addition for part fabrication, parametric processes based on the developed algorithms, have been applied .An efficient deployment and collapse method that facilitates the transportation and the rapid erection of the pavilion structure is also described in the paper.
Katherine A. Liapi 