Tensegrity: Skylon Variant

Inspired by the Skylon tower built for the Festival of Britain in 1951. This is also a structure featured by Bob Burkhardt which though similar I have some variance to this design by redefining the geometry with the mast connected midway.








This structure helps to illustrate one of the key advantages of my construction techniques for the compression struts. The concept of composite construction would facilitate a midway connection of the tendons to the vertical strut.

For more information on composite construction please see my earlier post here:
http://spatialgeometrix.blogspot.com/2010/09/tensegrity-concept-models.html