Inverting its direction on structural spanning elements for beams, bridges, and buildings
Here Is How It WorksThe Benefits
Supporting loads on beams in bending is inefficient
Use axial tension instead to manage those forces
Generate dynamic load balancing response
Redirect gravity from pulling down to “lifting up”
Fabricate lighter, stronger beams
This new archetype transforms how bridges are constructed enabling faster, cheaper, and lower-carbon deployable bridges.
Live and dead loads are flipped to serve as their own load balancing prestress
Case study in failure
We rely on 7 bridge archetypes, all developed prior to 1900
They are expensive to build and have large carbon footprints
~75% of their structural mass is devoted to supporting just dead loads
Medium and long span bridges usually take years to construct
Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapse will take 3-4 years to rebuild and cost nearly $2 billion, with substantial negative economic impacts
“State of the art” in deployable bridges is WWII era Bailey Bridge
Inspired Architecture
Apply how the human body is structured to buildings of the future:
Integrate equal parts tension members (ligaments, tendons) with compression members (bones) creating new architecture
Total building frame redirects and balances gravity loads
Structural members are optimized for efficiency and economy
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