Frame and Form

After the anniversary, round up. Today we present you, as summary, this year most interesting and special articles . We invite you to celebrate the best structural design with a selection of posts published during 2009, classifying them according to number of views,votes and personal criteria from team Frame and Form.

Most popular

1 Paper Structures. Shigeru Ban. The work of this renowned Japanese architect drew our eyes by his treatment of form, materials and structure as an indivisible whole. The short analysis of his work and philosophy from a structural point of view was the article most demanded by our readers over this year.

2 Biomimicry: where nature and design converge. Powerful tool for conceptual design, biomimetics has increasingly supporters and onlookers from all creative fields, here we provide our bit with an article that highlighted the concept and its applications in structures.

3 Tensegrity, compression islands in a sea of tensions. A tensegrity system is one that is in a self-balanced state and consists of a set of discontinuous compression components into one continuous of traction components. Complex structural typology that 50 years after its golden age still fascinates us.

Most rated

1 Bird Observatory over the Ebro river. The detailed post on this simple but bold structural wood work has been the best rated and most voted by the readers.

2 Man On Wire - The man who challenged the void. The feat of the great Petit and the structural aspects of his adventure opened our eyes to enjoy even more this excellent Academy-awarded documentary.

3 Krúsrak Bridge. Wood at the highest level. This Dutch bridge with its attractive wooden structure won our readers attention with its structural design and its valuable contribution to the use of sustainable materials in the structures at the highest level.

Team picks

Bike: Structure on wheels. Re-discover structures in everyday objects has become one of the personal satisfaction of Sergio Carratalá, the chief editor of this publication.

Bridge of the week: Lake Austin footbridge. Since Juan Tirado joined the ranks of this project he had very clear what bridge would cover to launch what became a section in its own, ‘The Bridge of the Week '.

Huesos Varios Exhibition - Miguel Fisac. This year our collaborator Jorge Parra updated ‘our Library’ with cultural content in all formats: books, webs, museums, exhibitions, etc. The excellent exhibition on the work of architect Miguel Fisac attracted the interest of Jorge who chose ‘Fisac's bone-structures’ and their exploration of cast concrete to approach us a good example of expressive structural elements.