Skin and bones: Circumduction movement in joint structures.

摘要

This thesis proposes an alternative to traditional pre-engineered building construction. Its aim is to provide a sustainable pre-engineered system in which site, program and form are flexible and may respond to the developing requirements of the environment, the community and the building. It draws from anatomy to investigate how anatomical joint structures might inform building structures.; Pursuit of this question has involved; (1) organic and anatomical studies of various parts of the human body. (2) application of these observations to a structural system and an envelope system that permit flexibility in form, scale, program and site. (3) integration of sustainability aspects into the framework of the system. (4) research of leading-edge sustainable materials and applications. (5) development of an on-site erection construction program. (6) application of the building system on a site in Manitoba, Canada, for a grandstand and arena program.