Saving for a rainy day

These links are chock full of good stuff, but no time to process them today and harvest their data for the TensegrityWiki... So at least they are captured here:


Great set of links, most I have seen, some I have not:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/discover/tensegrity/

Wilkinson Eyre Architects document their interesting bridge project, here: http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/projects/tensegrity-bridge.aspx?category=advanced-geometry

Proposed for the National Building Museum in Washington DC, this bridge will connect high level galleries on either side of the museum’s main internal space which lends itself well to large and distinctive sculptural forms. Developed in collaboration with Cecil Balmond of Arup, it is conceived both as a temporary link structure and as an exhibit in itself, interactively demonstrating structural behaviour in real time. The bridge is to be constructed from a network of glass tubes acting as compressive elements and joined together by cables in a ‘tensegrity’ structure. The underlying geometry is based on a series of tetrahedral cells, replicated numerous times to accumulate a visual mass capable of asserting itself within the extraordinary scale of the museum’s courts while remaining essentially light.

I bought one of Bruce Hamilton's kits from here: http://www.tensiondesigns.com/kits.html; he deserves a people page and careful study of his work at "Tension Designs".