Building systems with non-regular polyhedral nodes

Details Building systems with non-regular polyhedral nodes Building systems with non-regular polyhedral nodes

1992-06-24

1996-04-09

Friedman, Carl D.

Static structures (e.g., buildings)

Openwork; e.g., truss, trellis, grille, screen, frame, or...

Three-dimensional space-defining

523112, 526531, 52DIG10, E04B 118

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055050352

ABSTRACT:
A family of space frame systems composed of a plurality of nodes coupled by struts and derived from a family of non-regular polyhedra by joining the center of these polyhedra to their faces, edges and vertices. The space frames permit periodic, non-periodic, random and irregular building configurations. The building system can be combined with panels, tensile and membranes systems, or can be converted into plate systems or nodeless space frame systems. The spaces and configurations defined by the building system include single-layered, double-layered, multi-layered configurations, non-layered and multi-directional configurations, polyhedral packings and space-fillings, infinite polyhedra, and various 3-dimensional projections of n-dimensional polytopes for architectural environments. The n-dimensional polytopes include the infinite classes of hyper-cubes and hyper-cubic lattices, and a variety of 4-dimensional polytopes.
Applications include architecture on earth and in space, environmental and sculptural structures, platforms, roofs and playground structures, honeycombs, toys, games and educational kits.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3970301 (1976-07-01), Lehmann
patent: 4723382 (1988-02-01), Lalvani
patent: 5007220 (1991-04-01), Lalvani

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