Tensegrity: da gioco per la mente a nuova tecnologia costruttiva

This study demonstrates that a design based on particular tensegrity structures can be a viable alternative for the architectural challenge of innovative design. Tensegrity structures are very lightweight, demountable, safe, suitable for temporary constructions like those of great durability, achievable with newest materials in terms of efficiency of performance and sustainability, and therefore also the cheapest in relation to the achieved results and the aesthetic quality that we can get by them. Here are presented two architectural designs whose structural concept is based on two famous tensegrity shapes: the Fuller's tensegrity mast of 1959 and the T4, the basic shape of the spatial tensegrity structures consisting in 4 bars and 12 cables.