Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

IN SEARCH OF LIGHTNESS. Past, present, and future of membrane space structures

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Giuseppe Vaccaro

Keywords: 

environment, place analysis, infrastuctures, context observation, territory relations

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Introduzione
In ancient times the main cause for high weight of sustaining systems was due to bad structural performance and modest ratio values between the strength and weight of the used materials. Withstanding stones and bricks only to compression, they were used for construction schemes that were based on stabilizing the effect of gravity.
For this reason, domes, vaults, and arches were built with greater thickness to ensure that the curve of pressures generated by the weight of the structure would be less affected by accidental loads. With the introduction of new geometric mathematical knowledge, of new building materials such as steel, reinforced concrete, and membranes and of a more “sustainable” thought (in terms of material-realization and environmental impacts), the relationship between “load-bearing weight and weight that is carried” is considerably reduced, thus allowing to associate new and more efficient constructions schemes and structural typologies. The tensile structures, for example, whose discovery of the structural system has very ancient origins, are able to return an excellent compromise between weight and resistance by favoring also the possibility of covering large lights with limited anchoring points that are only structurally opposed to the monumentality of classic structures. […]

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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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