• CharlesMangione@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I tend to agree. It’s DIY tensegrity, and not really offensive as such. I wouldn’t buy it, but there’s $55 worth of material and labor and creativity here.

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        Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension.

        The bottles are in compression, while the tensors are providing… You guessed it, tension.

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          Tensegrity usually means integrity from primarily tension, like cables used as the main struts for something. This just looks like it’s bottles as a structural element with rods preventing them from coming apart

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        I don’t know that I would go so far as a describing it as tensetrity, but the majority of the load on the shelves is held through the I/J hooks in between the bottles. The bottles are there more for stability.

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          Those are just pulling the shelves together and putting more pressure on the bottles.

          This shelf is designed with “sit in a chair and fly by lifting the chair” logic.

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            I think we’re in agreement in both those regards.

            I meant stability in the sense that it’s preventing shelf rotation. It does the job I guess, but I don’t see this being a particularly long-lived piece of furniture.