Resumen de Aplicación de los principios del tensegrity a las constucciones textiles atirantadas.

Diana Maritza Peña Villamil

• The purpose of this document is to study the application of Tensegrity principles on tensile textile constructions. This work studies the basic concept of Tensegrity unit, its classification according a previous researcher (Anthony Pugh) and the author’s contribution, focused on new generations of forms. Through the geometry and computer software, another typology and a constructive simple method is developed, bearing in mind, some aspects as important as system pretension to find its balance