Main entry:

Pearce, Peter, 1936-

Title & Author:

Structure in nature is a strategy for design / Peter Pearce.

Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, ©1978.

Description:

xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-245).
Introduction : Systems for diversity ; Structure in nature ; Form as a diagram of forces ; An integrative morphology -- I. Structure in nature and design : 1. Geometry as structure : The platonic solids, triangulation and geometric stability ; Triangulation and closest packing ; Partitioning and tessellations, networks and dual networks ; Filling the voids: the Kelvin figure ; Many-celled soap bubble arrays ; Simple bubble arrays, the law of closest packing and triangulation ; Closest packed unequal spheres, polyhedra and polyhedral domains ; The soap bubble array as archetype -- 2. Closest packing in nature : Hexagons, hierarchies, and scale independence ; A catalog of forms -- 3. Some principles of built structures : Triangulation of built forms ; The loaded frames ; Space frames ; Local instability in planar and domical space frames -- 4. Ordering principles and geometry : Tessellations of the plane ; Polyhedra and their duals ; Compound, quasiregular, and stellated polyhedra ; Convex polyhedra composed of regular polygons -- 5. Symmetry and space filling : Symmetry classes ; Lattices and unit cells ; Space filling polyhedra ; Regular and semiregular polyhedra as multiple space fillers ; Space filling systems derived from the rhombic dodecahedron ; Connected networks ; The intelligibility of three-dimensional space -- II. A theory of spatial order : 6. Toward a morphological system : Morphological units: mathematics concretely embodied ; Spheres as morphological units ; Polyhedra as morphological units ; Morphological networks ; Abstraction and built form: the morphological node and branches -- 7. Principles of order and the universal node system : Classifying the finite polyhedra with the integrative morphological system ; Classifying space filling systems with the integrative morphological system ; Triangulated structures derived from the universal network -- 8. Saddle polyhedra, the universal network; the cube revisited : Minimal surfaces, mean curvature ; Saddle surfaces and the interstitial domains ; Saddle polyhedra and connected networks ; Describing the universal network with saddle polyhedra ; Regular and semiregular saddle polyhedra ; Saddle polyhedra: an inventory of possibilities ; Diverse networks share common point lattices ; The universal network as interactive process -- 9. Continuous surfaces and labyrinths : Continuous surfaces from space filling saddle polyhedra ; Labyrinths derived from plane faced polyhedra.
III. A theory of structure : 10. Continuous surfaces as triangulated networks : Structural characteristics of triangulated networks ; Periodic triangulated networks derived from continuous surfaces -- 11. Infinite spatial networks from equilateral triangles : Periodic systems of equilateral triangles -- 12. Closest packed cells and the triangulation of space : Triangulated structures derived from closest packed cellular systems ; Triangulated labyrinth derived from pentagonal dodecahedra and hexakaidecahedra ; Triangulated packings of rhombic triacontahedra and starred dodecahedra ; Alternative modes of a comprehensive system ; Dodecahedral/hexakaidecahedral packings and the universal node system ; Triangulated structures derived from truncations of the dodecahedral/hexakaidecahedral packing ; Periodic structures composed of distorted icosahedra ; Other icosahedron-related structures ; Triangulation of the Kelvin minimal tetrakaidecahedron ; Diversity and order prevailing in the triangulation of space -- IIII. The reduction to practice : 13. Minimum inventory / maximum diversity building systems : The min-a-max building system ; The universal node building system ; Reasonable expectations -- 14. Saddle polyhedra and continuous surfaces as environmental structures : Saddle surfaces and planar space structures ; Continuous surfaces and their triangulated networks as building forms ; Curved space continuous surfaces as recreational environments ; The realm of possibility.
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Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0262160641
9780262160643

Subject:

Architectural design.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Form (Aesthetics)
Design architectural.
Nature (Esthétique)
Forme (Esthétique)
Banquettes.
format.
forms (benches)
forms (documents)
forms (type composition equipment)
form (general concept)
Natur
Tragwerk
Nature (esthétique)
Forme (esthétique)
Architectural design Implications of structure of natural objects
architectuur
architecture
theorie
theory
esthetische waarde
aesthetic value
Architecture (General)
Architectuur (algemeen)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 38229
Call No.: PO2454; ID:88-B9093
Status: Available