A hyperbolic rhomboid mounted on sunken piers in a lake, Jan-Frederik Flor and Ernesto Viquez
Alas designed 10-story fabric-clad tower exhibition hall. The work was to fulfill an assigment by Carlos Azofeifa.
The tower forms a cylinder, hyperbolic rhomboid on a cant, with the top sliced at a diagonal. The base of the wood latticework rests on concrete piers anchored below the waterline.
Its fabric cladding is a held in place by a tensegrity network of cables that create the necessary high and low points on which the textile membrane is attached. This “skin” is translucent to permit illumination of the interior by natural light during the day, and the possibility of illumination by a changing color display via projectors from within at night.
Many thanks to Bruce Wright for finding this, he always has an eye out for tensegrity. He also mentioned tensegrity in his article about Parsons Brinkerhoff and FTL Design Engineering Studios' work on the Rosa Parks Transit Center in the heart of downtown Detroit, and Scott Braley's Georgia Dome. Someday, let's hash out the differences between tensegrity, fabric structures and tension structures.
Links:
Fabric Architecture article by Bruce Wright, http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0710_sk_vertical.html
Universidad de Costa Rica, http://www.ucr.ac.cr/
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