Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

TENSILE ARCHITECTURE AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACH

Authors 

Dora Francese

Keywords: 

Frei Otto, tensile structures, gridshells, conception of tensile structures, construction system

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Introduction: Temporary Architecture and tensile membrane structure
«In architecture, permanence is mainly associated with the endurance of material and durability of construction. Temporary architecture, on the contrary, has a predetermined and brief life span. […]
Investigating the permanent and temporary qualities of architecture, Bernard Tschumi states that architecture is not meant to be permanent; it cannot be related to a limited time. Tschumi re-examines the Vitruvian trilogy of “venustas, firmitas and utilitas”, describes “firmitas” as a “structural ability” and discovers that three qualities have remained obsessively in thoughts for centuries. He asks if these architectural constants did not exist, how would architecture be? Moreover, he underlines the fact that the permanence of architecture can be a bad mental habit and is a result of intellectual laziness that has been observed throughout the history. Jean Nouvel, on the other hand, like Peter Zumthor, asserts that architecture is related to light constructions that are “not heavy”, “changeable”, “permanent”, “dematerialized” and “not matter bounded”. There are several forms of designing temporary architecture such as exposition, exhibition and pavilion. […] The architects of the temporary structures experience new ways of architecture, all the while questioning what the future of architecture might be and how their experimentation can be represented. […]

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SMC Special Issue N.03 2019

SMC MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE N. THREE/2019

WHOLE BOOK

001_COVER AND INDEX

009_ Introduzione
Paola De Joanna

PART I
TENSILE MEMBRANE TODAY

017_Membranes: a challenge for Environmental Sustainability
Luca Buoninconti

027_Architectural Membranes for improving the functional performance of buildings
Paulo Mendonça, Racquel Macieira

039_Educational Objectives from an Architectural Studio on Nature & Space Structures
Nikos P. Tsinikas, Dimitris Antoniou, George Dimopoulos, Dimitris Kontaxakis, Ioanna Symeonidou

049_A first step into Nonlinear Statics
Enrico Babilio, Luca Buoninconti

PART II
SUSTAINABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

059_Tensile architecture and sustainable approach
Dora Francese

079_Frei Otto and Tensile Structures
Sergio Pone

087_The healing colture
Michele Castaldo

091_In search of lightness. Past, present and future of membrane space structures
Giuseppe Vaccaro

PART III
APPLICATION ON A CASE STUDY EXPERIENCE

109_PROJECTS

116_LIST OF AUTHORS

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