TENSEGRITY STRUCTURES AND DESIGN SCIENCE

摘要

The ancient art of weaving related to the reciprocal frame joint of Leonardo reveals the starting point to understand design science structures. This point can be extended toward tensegrity, reciprocal frames, polyhedra and geodesic spheres, obtaining in this way the visual pattern called DST (Design Science Tetrahedron). There are many weave patterns, the most familiar ones are based on the biaxial and triaxial weaving. If we apply the helical reciprocal frame joint to platonic and archimedean solids we get weave-like polyhedra modules. In this way three-dimensional weaving becomes an extension of conventional flat weaving.