Application of the tensegrity principles on tensile textile constructions

Abstract

This study tries to contribute in a particular way to the application of the tensegrity in architectural spaces, in this case sports spaces through a new proposal that generates an external ring in tensegrity with a central dome, free of any interior support, by formfinding a continuous membrane pattern with discontinuous struts in double layer that find their equilibrium through the tension of the membrane. In the following examples one can observe that traditional tensegrity tendons are replaced by membranes, which is the main contribution of this work that finds geometry and its constructive method of the different prototypes with the help of software like AutoCAD and WinTess (a software development by Ramón Sastre), which verifies the structural equilibrium.