Team

Founder / Editor:
   Sergio Carratalá

Collaborators:
   Juan Tirado
   Jorge Parra
   Ricardo Ferraz

About

Frame and Form (estructura y forma) was born with the modest desire to promote and disseminate structural design culture. The content of this blog is based on small articles where synthesized information is provided about accomplishments , events, history, contests and curiosities of marked structural works like bridges or buildings. These capsules of information intended [...]

Follow us on:



Concepts Sphere
5 October, 2009

Kurilpa Bridge

Juan Tirado. maloregularbuenomuy buenoexcelente (6 Votes, average: 3.33 a 5)
 Loading ... Loading ...

Yesterday was inaugurated “Kurilpa Bridge” and Brisbane, without doubt a special bridge for many reasons.

First, surprisingly, this design is the result of a design contest and play. This is a joint proposal Baulderstone Pty Ltd (construction company), Cox Rayner Architects and Arup Engineers.

    category: Bridge of the week | bridges

5 comments

29 December, 2008

Tensegrity, compression islands in a sea of tensions

Sergio Carratalá. maloregularbuenomuy buenoexcelente (1 Votes, average: 5.00 a 5)
 Loading ... Loading ...

tensegrity, basic principle named after Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) mid-twentieth century that applies to structures that are equipped with tensional integrity (Tensegrity = tensional + integrity). A Tensegrity system is one that is in a steady state self-balanced and consists of a set of discontinuous compression components within [...]

    category: advanced geometry | inspiration

2 comments