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This is version 2.0 of Spaceship Tensegrity. Most of the changes have to do with the base to hold it all up, and it allow for the strings to be quickly and easily adjusted.
Also, after various feedback about the use of the legs as a core part, The pilot has been swapped to "Where are my Pants" Guy. 'Cos you gotta embrace these things right :D
I might take it further, but for now, I'm calling it done.
From Wikipedia:
Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension, and arranged in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other while the prestressed tensioned members (usually cables or tendons) delineate the system spatially.
Originally known as the Tank Street Bridge, the Kurilpa Bridge is a A$63 million pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The bridge connects Kurilpa Point in South Brisbane to Tank Street in the Brisbane central business district. In 2011, the bridge was judged World Transport Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival.
Baulderstone built the bridge and the company’s design team included Cox Rayner Architects and Arup Engineers.
A sod-turning ceremony was held at Kurilpa Park, South Brisbane on the 12th of December 2007. The bridge was opened on the 4th of October 2009 by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.
Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest hybrid tensegrity bridge. Only the horizontal spars conform to tensegrity principles. The Kurilpa Bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity producing a synergy between balanced tension and compression components to create a light structure which is incredibly strong.
The bridge is 470 metres (1,540 ft) long with a main span of 128 metres (420 ft) and features two large viewing and relaxation platforms, two rest areas, and a continuous all-weather canopy for the entire length of the bridge. A canopy is supported by a secondary tensegrity structure. It is estimated that 560 tonnes (620 short tons) of structural steel including 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) of helical strand cable are incorporated into the bridge.
The bridge is lit with a sophisticated LED lighting system which can be programmed to produce an array of different lighting effects. Depending on lighting configurations, 75%-100% of the power required is provided by solar energy. All electrical work was done by Stowe Australia.
A public competition was held to decide on a new name for the bridge. On the 23rd of November 2008, it was announced that the winning entry was Kurilpa Bridge, submitted by Shane Spargo of Nundah, Queensland. The name reflects the Australian Aboriginal word for the South Brisbane and West End area, and means "place for water rats".
Source: Courier Mail, Queensland Government, Brisbane Times, Brisbane Development, World Architecture News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Tensegrity Structure, Meijer Botanical Garden
This has nothing to do with anything that I'm working on at the moment, but I found it in the archives while looking for something else. Plenty more where this came from!
When I first saw the Tensegrity phenomenon (like everyone I imagine) I wanted to make my version!
I tried something based on the sculpture of JKBrickworks but in a theme that I particularly like as you already know! It made me think of the boss level of the Arkham City game against Ras Al Ghul!
Building Instructions available on Rebrickable :
rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-40913/BricksFeeder/tensegrity-la...
The main complaint that I have seen about tensegrity builds is that the chains are functional but do not seem to fit into the build. After my first tensegrity project failed, I called in some help from my Dad, because while I am more focused on design, my Dad has a background in engineering so was better able to know how it could work. While this build was not quite impossible like my last one, I decided to do something that very few people have done with tensegrity - a completely asymmetrical build at the top. I somehow managed to build the top section with an almost perfect centre of mass and so my mining colony was born. This is perhaps the hardest technical build that I have ever done and my first build in microscale, so I would really appreciate your feedback.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB, California on Monday June 16, 2025.
It's been a while since I've captured a SpaceX launch. This one is over Bombay Beach.
I made this shot look like the rocket took off from Sean Guerrero's ReInCarNation art in the background to the right.
Shot with a Canon EOR and Canon RF 15-35mm lens at 10 sec f/6.3 ISO 200.
The art installation in the foreground is the Temple of Floating Compression by Glass House Arts.
The Temple of Floating Compression went to Burning Man 2023!
Previously it was at Arizona's regional burn Saguaro Man, and served as the temple for San Diego's Regional Burn, YOUtopia.
The main structure is now permanently installed in Bombay Beach, on the shores of the Salton Sea. Instead of the central tensegrity icosahedron, it features a swing! Lighting by Kevin Key Photography.
#spacex #bombaybeach #saltonsea #art
Tensegrity is a structural principle based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the 'floating' compressed members (struts) do not touch each other and the tension members (tendons) describe the system spatially.
The compression members in this structure are made from galvanized steel tube, and the tension members from stainless steel bar.
Hey all! Saw this #tensegrity build doing the rounds on LEGO social media at the moment. Thought I would give it a crack and add my own spin to it. Credit to @jasonallemann for the original build that kicked this all off. -Greg
As Lord Vader showed off his “Force” sculpture to Director Krennic, the squad leaders exchanged looks - they knew it was just physics.
Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman, or Spidermen Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Ben Reilly, here come to save the day, in a tensegrity way !
I haven't built LEGO for more than 3 years now. With the coronavirus stay at home policy, I started to build again. Recently my colleague challenged me of building the Tensegrity Sculpture
As soon as I saw the first images on Tensegrity applied to Legos, my thoughts immediately went to an island suspended in the sky. So I built this rocky mix suspended in the clouds. To decorate everything a bit and to give an almost divine semblance, I decided to use the golden cone as if to represent a sort of temple, surrounded by some cascade of water.
Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman, or Spidermen Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Ben Reilly, here come to save the day, in a tensegrity way !
I haven't built LEGO for more than 3 years now. With the coronavirus stay at home policy, I started to build again. Recently my colleague challenged me of building the Tensegrity Sculpture
Kenneth Snelson (June 29, 1927–December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. Much of his art is about the tension between rigid pipes and flexible cables or Tensegrity.
Besides sculptures in the Netherlands, Japan, and Germany Snelson's works can be seen all over the United States. His Needle Tower outside of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C seems impressive and worth viewing.
A former student of Buckminster Fuller, Snelson has also has left us some architectural highlights. He designed the antenna/spire of One World Trade Center, the tower’s 'crown' that allowed the building to reach a symbolic height of 1,776 feet.
Free Ride Home is located at the Storm King Art Center.
2008 - Reclaim Magenta
Creation for the "Reclaim Magenta Campaign" against T-Mobile who copyrighted the colour for all digital media display.
The main complaint that I have seen about tensegrity builds is that the chains are functional but do not seem to fit into the build. After my first tensegrity project failed, I called in some help from my Dad, because while I am more focused on design, my Dad has a background in engineering so was better able to know how it could work. While this build was not quite impossible like my last one, I decided to do something that very few people have done with tensegrity - a completely asymmetrical build at the top. I somehow managed to build the top section with an almost perfect centre of mass and so my mining colony was born. This is perhaps the hardest technical build that I have ever done and my first build in microscale, so I would really appreciate your feedback.
On a small planet beyond the Outer Rim, a lone sentinel keeps watch...
I've been wanting to do some sort of base for my mini-shuttle for several years. After numerous tries, I started with this simple bunker, and it grew from there. Of course, a landing platform was necessary, and I decided to attempt it as a tensegrity construct. I needed to raise the main structure up high enough to allow for the tensegrity structures, which led to my first go at doing rock work with LEGO. It was a fun bit of experimentation outside of my usual mecha wheelhouse, and my shuttle now has a home.
This was embodied using only LEGO parts.
It is a artwork that depicts a "Blue Whale(white-beard whale)" that freely swims break through the clouds.
Kinetic Art structure that uses the center of gravity.
You can see the detailed movements in the links and comments below.
LEGO IDEAS : "FLYING WHALE" - Description
YOUTUBE : "FLYING WHALE" - Video
MOC built for: Color it Blacktron Contest 6 - Category 3: Base
This is a small hovering base deployed on a planet and listening to any useful information. It is equipped with many sensors and antennae on long arms (to avoid interference). Base is anchored to the ground and crew can use the winch to get supplies from the ground, like the power rods that just arrived.
LEGO Tensegrity structures are quite popular now, so here comes one more. The base is wiggling and floating above the rock almost unnaturally and it is quite fun.
The contest pages (flickr and blog) are here: www.flickr.com/groups/blacktron/discuss/72157714018296927...
LEGO Tensegrity model by Camille Jongy and me.
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Designed to swoop down from space to a planetary surface, hover and disgorge a squad of space marines into the heart of battle; the IFHV is equipped with dual cannons to secure the landing site during decent and support the troops when on the ground.
When I was a teenager I built plastic models of tanks, and I’ve always retained a soft spot them so decided to build a sci-fi armoured vehicle out of LEGO. I came up with the idea of a sort of Higgins-boat-in-space which would “hover” from the ramp at the front (long before the whole tensegrity thing…) via a mechanism concealed in the base that allows the angle to be tweaked to prevent it drooping. Quite pleased with that as well as the camouflage scheme and the landscape on the diorama.
After seeing JK Brickworks' tensegrity sculpture I wanted something like that on my desk so made my own version.
my tensegrity sculpture featuring a surfer precariously riding the waves, held up by only three chains!
Designed to swoop down from space to a planetary surface, hover and disgorge a squad of space marines into the heart of battle; the IFHV is equipped with dual cannons to secure the landing site during decent and support the troops when on the ground.
When I was a teenager I built plastic models of tanks, and I’ve always retained a soft spot them so decided to build a sci-fi armoured vehicle out of LEGO. I came up with the idea of a sort of Higgins-boat-in-space which would “hover” from the ramp at the front (long before the whole tensegrity thing…) via a mechanism concealed in the base that allows the angle to be tweaked to prevent it drooping. Quite pleased with that as well as the camouflage scheme and the landscape on the diorama.
Cyril found that although his Tensegrity buggy did handle a little more top-heavily in the moon gravity, it more than made up for it with storage space for his tools...
('Grity like it's 2019 - who cares if it's totally played out lol)
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This was embodied using only LEGO parts.
It is a artwork that depicts a "Blue Whale(white-beard whale)" that freely swims break through the clouds.
Kinetic Art structure that uses the center of gravity.
You can see the detailed movements in the links and comments below.
LEGO IDEAS : "FLYING WHALE" - Description
YOUTUBE : "FLYING WHALE" - Video
Gravity Kills
Runner on thin net
Media carver
Touch it ! Bend it !
Quite moisture...
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For some reason reminds of the qualities of tensegrity - cocoon structures...
Some reflections, while contemplating on it - on my blog : www.livejournal.com/users/allilinin/41844.html
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Taken from the bridge looking back towards the city end.
The Kurilpa Bridge is a (A$)$63 million pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The bridge connects Kurilpa Point in South Brisbane to Tank Street in the Brisbane central business district.
In 2011, the bridge was judged World Transport Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. Baulderstone Queensland Pty Ltd constructed the bridge and the company’s design team included Cox Rayner Architects and Arup Engineers.
A sod turning ceremony was held at Kurilpa Park, South Brisbane on 12 December 2007. The bridge was opened on 4 October 2009 by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.
Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest hybrid tensegrity bridge. Only the horizontal spars conform to tensegrity principles. The Kurilpa Bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity producing a synergy between balanced tension and compression components to create a light structure which is incredibly strong.
The bridge is 470m long with a main span of 128m and features two large viewing and relaxation platforms, two rest areas, and a continuous all-weather canopy for the entire length of the bridge. A canopy is supported by a secondary tensegrity structure. It is estimated that 550 tons of structural steel including 6.8 km of helical strand cable are incorporated into the bridge. 75-100% of power is solar.
Kurilpa is the Aboriginal name for West End and South Brisbane and means 'water rats'.
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Designed to swoop down from space to a planetary surface, hover and disgorge a squad of space marines into the heart of battle; the IFHV is equipped with dual cannons to secure the landing site during decent and support the troops when on the ground.
When I was a teenager I built plastic models of tanks, and I’ve always retained a soft spot them so decided to build a sci-fi armoured vehicle out of LEGO. I came up with the idea of a sort of Higgins-boat-in-space which would “hover” from the ramp at the front (long before the whole tensegrity thing…) via a mechanism concealed in the base that allows the angle to be tweaked to prevent it drooping. Quite pleased with that as well as the camouflage scheme and the landscape on the diorama.
From Wikipedia:
Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension, and arranged in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other while the prestressed tensioned members (usually cables or tendons) delineate the system spatially.
Short of stone? Bereft of boulders? Missing masonry? Adobe AWOL? Lacking lime or low on lumber?
Not a problem with the NEW Tensegrity Tower! Carefully crafted by hand picked* wizards, using the latest majick technology. This tower uses a fraction of the building materials of a normal keep but your lookout is still floated high in the air for a great vantage point!
Send your manservant to our workshops today and get a price quotation parchment.
*Generally whoever has the tallest, pointiest hat.
Short of stone? Bereft of boulders? Missing masonry? Adobe AWOL? Lacking lime or low on lumber?
Not a problem with the NEW Tensegrity Tower! Carefully crafted by hand picked* wizards, using the latest majick technology. This tower uses a fraction of the building materials of a normal keep but your lookout is still floated high in the air for a great vantage point!
Send your manservant to our workshops today and get a price quotation parchment.
*Generally whoever has the tallest, pointiest hat.