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Tensegrity moving installation -From the Jazz Fest 2005 promo
Wearable installation - Cine-MAtic Cocoons
or the so called Throbbing LO - a tensegrity structure floating around the human body Two friends the mime artists: LILI and SASHO:)
the Tensegrity structure appeared for a first time at the Unclothed in Cleveland in 2004
Brisbane. Architect: Cox Rayner. Structure: ARUP
Largest Tensegrity Bridge in the world. Tensegriy term originally coined by Buckmister Fuller
Illuminated installation studying the protons that make up light, through the use of tensegrity shapes. Work by Jan Flook.
Wyndham Cultural Centre.
Werribee.
Victoria.
On Tuesday afternoon, I took a self-guided tour of the Aria Fine Art Collection, which spans the Aria property itself and several neighboring sites/buildings in CityCenter. I had difficulty finding Stop 7 on the tour (I ended up finding it later in the day), so I proceeded to Stop 8 on the tour: this enormous sculpture located in Harmon Circle, near the entrance to the Vdara. The work is titled ''Big Edge'' and was created by artist Nancy Rubins. I ended up taking several shots of the sculpture from different angles; this one faces west toward the adjacent parking garage.
A few details on the work according to the Aria Fine Art Collection mobile app:
Big Edge
Nancy Rubins
(American, b. 1952)
2009
Stainless steel and aluminum
Big Edge is a visually stunning, large-scale sculpture cantilevering 75 feet in length and 57 feet in width. Finessed into a gravity-defying form that is both delicately balanced and precisely engineered, Big Edge is supported by a steel armature and built of aluminum rowboats, canoes, and other small vessels. These boats are connected with thousands of pounds of stainless steel wire cable forming a web-like structure, where compression and tension create what Buckminster Fuller referred to as tensegrity, making the whole stronger than the parts. Each boat was precisely placed according to Rubins' direction based on its color, shape, and structural contribution to the whole.
Rubins is a sculptor known for seemingly precarious works created from salvaged, industrial consumer goods, including monumental sculptures consisting of airplane parts, electrical appliances, mattresses, and cakes, as well as boats. Her work has been represented in major exhibitions in the United States and Europe.
Just a little bamboo tensegrity tower- for step-by-step instructions see ropesandpoles.blogspot.com/2006/03/step-by-step-tensegrit...
A couple of months ago, there was a bit of a craze going around for gravity-defying Tensegrity models. So this is Tenseigrity Heights, a top secret research facility, part of Micropolis University, where the boffins are looking into anti-gravity and other such magic. Of course, being such an iconic building, it's the worst-kept secret in the city, but the staff are blissfully unaware. Ref: D1642-056
Dialoghi di Trani 2013
gruppo di lavoro, architetti:
Francesca Barone
Giuseppe Fallacara
Anna Mangione
Fiore Resta
Raffaella Sanseverino
Marco Stigliano
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SFMOMA LOOKS AT BUCKMINSTER FULLER’S LEGACY IN THE BAY AREA
...From March 31 through July 29, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, the first exhibition to consider Fuller's local design legacy. The presentation will feature some 65 works, including prints, drawings, photographs, documentary video, books, models, and ephemera representing some of Fuller's most iconic projects alongside those by Bay Area designers inspired by his philosophy.
"Late in his life Fuller selected 13 designs for which he obtained U.S. patents and featured them in a portfolio called Inventions: Twelve Around One, to be marketed to art collectors," notes SFMOMA Acting Department Head/Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, who organized the presentation. "In learning more about Fuller, I've come to realize that the works in the portfolio shouldn't be considered designs. I prefer to view them as opportunities to rethink a more comprehensive and efficient way of living. In hindsight, it's probably fortunate that none of these projects were commercially successful, as it could have distracted from Fuller's idealism. This exhibition attempts to situate him as visionary and to present his revolutionary world view."
The Utopian Impulse opens by introducing Fuller, primarily with prints from the Inventions: Twelve Around One portfolio (1981), as well as several key works on loan from the R. Buckminster Fuller Archive at Stanford University. The gallery includes projects dating from the late 1920s through the mid-1970s paired with his most well-known ideas from the portfolio, such as the 4D House (1928), a hexagonal autonomous dwelling meant to be optimally resource efficient and mass producible from factory-made kits that could be easily shipped anywhere and quickly assembled on site. Extending this optimization to transportation, Fuller's ultra-light three-wheeled Dymaxion Car (1933) featured unprecedented fuel efficiency and an aerodynamic, teardrop shape, which was determined in collaboration with boat designer Sterling Burgess....
The exhibition also presents several of Fuller's big-picture ideas, including his World Game project, which he initiated in 1965. Conceived as a data-visualization system meant to facilitate global approaches in solving the world's problems, Fuller intended the piece to "make the world work, for 100 percent of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
The other half of the presentation looks at Bay Area endeavors inspired by Fuller's thinking, particularly those that employ his approach of commingling technology, ecology, and social responsibility to improve living systems. For instance, in the early 1970s Fuller's conceptions of simple, mobile dwellings emerged in the philosophies of several East Bay companies that were developing outdoor gear to coincide with the back-to-the-earth movement. Many tent designers had learned about Fuller's concept of "tensegrity," a made-up word intended to mean tension plus integrity. The North Face released the first "tensegrity" tent in 1976, called the Oval Intention, which is now credited with changing contemporary tent design....
Source: www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/903...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Status @ International Computational Design Workshop
Instructors @ Arturo De La Fuente + Cristhian Castro + Andreína Graterol
Tejidos y células de nuestra naturaleza que se transmiten a una digitalización mediante algoritmos y simulaciones para su proliferación y funcionamiento como prótesis humanas.
Lima - Perú
Year 2020
Final Review:
Test · New cell:
Website event:
www.digitalfutures.world/workshops-americas-blog/fuente
More info in portfolio:
A couple of months ago, there was a bit of a craze going around for gravity-defying Tensegrity models. So this is Tenseigrity Heights, a top secret research facility, part of Micropolis University, where the boffins are looking into anti-gravity and other such magic. Of course, being such an iconic building, it's the worst-kept secret in the city, but the staff are blissfully unaware. Ref: D1642-058
A tension integrity (tensegrity) sculpture.
Not my design in the slightest. My colour scheme and embellishments only.
Original Design by JK Brickworks.
Piece number 5
50 Swarovski crystals, Aquamarine, hematite, amethyst, vintage German [light blue drop beads], miyuki and matsuno beads.
1 3/4 inches high.
This thingy was not easy to make !!
A view of In Tension, filled with fresh snow following the late 2010 blizzard in New York. In Tension will be on view in YUM's sculpture garden through Spring 2011.
Created for the 2010 Sukkah City competition, this sukkah will was displayed in the Great Hall throughout the Sukkot holiday.
The sukkah is conceived as a simple kit-of-parts easily transported by a single person. Using the principles of tensegrity allows for a light weight structure that offers adequate space for rest, feast and contemplation. The net that wraps the structure creates a soft veil, transparent enough to be inclusive, but dense enough to create a sense of being. One enters the sukkah by lifting one corner of the net. At the top, the net dips down to become the carrier of branches and leafs offering shade and a natural touch. The seemingly magic organization of forces in space gives the sukkah a cosmic atmosphere.