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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.
The Kurilpa Bridge is a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane.
Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest tensegrity bridge. Tensegrity or tensional integrity is a property of structures with an integrity based on a balance between tension and compression components (how cool is that?)
We took a drive to the city just now and had a lot of fun taking pictures of this awesome bridge. Thanks for viewing :)
Seeing everyone posting tensegrity structures made me decide to post a double-decker version. It’s all genuine Lego and is a nice simple 10 minute build if you’ve got the parts.
Concept for Structural and Construction System
Tilted up half-circles: compression arches
Red strings: tension cables
A4 (297 x 210 mm Paper)
Based on Villarceau Circles on Torus
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.
It has been awesome seeing all the tensegrity Lego builds and had to try one of my own. There are many different tensegrity structures and the more I learn about the more I want to try to build in Lego. Keep building, folks!
Status @ International Computational Design Workshop
Location @ Moon
Instructors @ Arturo De La Fuente + Cristhian Castro + Andreína Graterol
Perú-Chile Team @ Kevin Abanto & Cristóbal Jimenez
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Lima - Perú
Year 2020
Final Review available in Youtube + Vimeo & Flickr:
flic.kr/p/2jqC6rK (downloadable)
Test New Cell Youtube + Vimeo & Flickr:
flic.kr/p/2jnijJ3 (downloadable)
Event:
www.digitalfutures.world/workshops-americas-blog/fuente
More info in portfolio:
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.
Inspired by the movie scene from ”Inception”, to keep the upper part floating is really not as easy as it looks, the height and weight of each building and the position of those chains.....all needed to take into consideration. And it became even harder when I tried to make each building looks a bit different from the others.
I couldn’t resist trying to see whether it would be possible to create a tensegrity structure using a pair of Lego magnets to hold up the top section. As you can see the magnets are not actually touching and there is a gap between the top and bottom sections so this structure truly does have the top section ‘flying’ on the magnetic field force and tension in the three strings. This would have worked better with the small old magnets without the plastic cover but this certainly demonstrates this is possible. Feel free to create a more beautiful version using this. Added another image showing some additional weight on the top platform www.flickr.com/gp/uklegoman/181699
The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that gave the illusion of 'floating' above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, "It had no visible means of support"
Construction
The Skylon at the Festival of Britain
The Skylon was the "Vertical Feature" that was an abiding symbol of the Festival of Britain. It was designed by Hidalgo Moya, Philip Powell and Felix Samuely, and fabricated by Painter Brothers of Hereford, England, on London's South Bank between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge. The Skylon consisted of a steel latticework frame, pointed at both ends and supported on cables slung between three steel beams. The partially constructed Skylon was rigged vertically, then grew taller in situ.[2] The architects' design was made structurally feasible by the engineer Felix Samuely who, at the time, was a lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury. The base was nearly 15 metres (50 feet) from the ground, with the top nearly 90 metres (300 feet) high. The frame was clad in aluminium louvres lit from within at night.
View of the Skylon at night
Questions were asked in Parliament regarding the danger to visitors from lightning-strikes to the Skylon, and the papers reported that it was duly roped off at one point, in anticipation of a forecast thunderstorm.[3]
Name
The name was suggested by Mrs A. G. S. Fidler, wife of the chief architect of the Crawley Development Corporation.[4] Moya wrote, "We were unimpressed at first but soon came to accept that, by combining the suggestions of Pylon, Sky and Nylon (a fascinating new material in 1951), it was wonderfully descriptive name which has lasted forty years, considerably longer than the structure itself."[5]
Incidents
A few days before the King and Queen visited the exhibition in May 1951, Skylon was climbed at midnight by Philip Gurdon, a student at Birkbeck College, who attached a University of London Air Squadron scarf near the top. Police constable Frederick Hicks was sent up to retrieve the scarf the following morning.
Wikipedia
Still a little bit of a work in progress. Getting the lines properly positioned, able to support that much weight, keep it all balanced, all while keeping the illusion that it is floating, is no small task.
So, for now, this build remains a work in progress - but spasceship Tensegrity is taking off.
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
Toronto Light Festival 2019 - Gooderham & Worts Ltd. Distillery District National Historic Site of Canada
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Based on Buckminster Fuller 'tensegrity', and built at Technical University of Eindhoven, Holland
www.lightart-collection.com/light-collection/lumenus-timo...
P2090188 Anx2 Q90 1200wh
SOLD: April 2019
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is a verb,
not a noun,
proper or improper."
1005.52: The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
1005.53: All the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity. Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous--tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
"Our school systems are all nonsynergetic. We take the whole child and fractionate the scope of his or her comprehending coordination by putting the children in elementary schools—to become preoccupied with elements or isolated facts only. Thereafter we force them to choose some specialization, forcing them to forget the whole. ... We may well ask how it happened that the entire scheme of advanced education is devoted exclusively to ever narrower specialization. We find that the historical beginnings of schools and tutoring were established, and economically supported by illiterate and vastly ambitious warlords who required a wide variety of brain slaves with which to logistically and ballistically overwhelm those who opposed their expansion of physical conquest. They also simultaneously DIVIDED and CONQUERED any and all "bright ones" who might otherwise rise within their realms to threaten their supremacy. The warlord vitiated their threat by making them all specialists and reserving to himself exclusively the right to think about and act comprehensively. The warlord made all those about him differentiators and reserved the function of integration to himself."
~ Richard Buckminster Fuller
just around the corner from the shot below is yet another bridge crossing the Brisbane River....the Kurilpa bridge however, is just for pedestrians. This bridge is lit up by a various array of colours as well, but it's a more permanent light show highlighting the miriad of cables and beams that crisscross the structure.
The bridge is the subject of much debate and divided opinion as to whether it is a visual monstrosity or an architectural stunner!!
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
A @lego #tensegrity landing pad I’ve had sitting around since earlier in the year when this was a fad... the #starfighter has also been in existence for a while but never photographed.
#lego #legotensegrity #spaceship #afol #legomoc #legofans #legospace
[WIP] 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!
However, since I don't currently have LEGO with containment ... I don't know if it works for now! The central parts should be more stronger to works maybe.
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
Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest tensegrity bridge.
The Kurilpa Bridge (originally known as the Tank Street 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.
Status @ International Computational Design Workshop
Location @ Moon
Instructors @ Arturo De La Fuente + Cristhian Castro + Andreína Graterol
Perú-Chile Team @ Kevin Abanto & Cristóbal Jimenez
El superVIRUS, origen de la próxima desaparición de la humanidad y la dominación del universo. Neil Armstrong nos ocultó los principios que tenía la NASA y el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, por el año 1969. A través de un salto temporal en el tiempo, mediante la transmisión que falsamente vivían todos, ubica el primer germen que se desarrollaría desde la base en la Tierra en los próximos 50 años. Mediante su evolución en la Luna, el 2% de su proporción fue lanzado a la Tierra, específicamente en la ciudad de Wuhan, dando origen al COVID-19.
Lima - Perú
Year 2020
Final Review:
Test · New cell:
Website event:
www.digitalfutures.world/workshops-americas-blog/fuente
More info in portfolio:
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
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
It has been awesome seeing all the tensegrity Lego builds and had to try one of my own. There are many different tensegrity structures and the more I learn about the more I want to try to build in Lego. Keep building, folks!
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!
Thanks for my friend Greg who made this render ! :D
Building Instructions available on Rebrickable :
rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-40913/BricksFeeder/tensegrity-la...
Attempted to build a tensegrity, like everyone else... Not as easy as it seems. I'll need another shot as I did not achieve the wow effect I was expecting. The structure does not seem to float so much...
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.