Monday, January 19, 2009

Structural Grids & Space Frames.

I began to look around on the web for various Space frames and other forms of complex surfaces. This Site has a good collection of various grids patterns as well as other diagrams showing different spaceframes. However there are no details showing connections. This next Site shows a few different details showing a standard node type of connection, however its in French, but still has some useful information as well.

Some various Manufactures as well as production teams have some good information on various structural systems. Design to Production is a good site with a varity of projects in different mediums. Novum Structures is another good web page that has high quality images that show a varity of connections. Mero has some useful information on structural calculations as well as project case studys. The Eden Project is a set of Biomes that are based on a hexagonal (hex-tri-hex) system with inflated ermoplastic EFTE

Most of the sytems that I looked at were based on a single type of connection that was flexible enough to use it for all various connections in the sytem. This is my next challange is to come up with a flexible system.

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