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Shelter Systems Tensegrity Tents at MOMA 2012

Four old tensegrity models and one 1975 tensegrity tent to show the evolution from Fuller to Tony Pugh to me to the North Face to you.

1) The model below shows an example of a tensegrity model design that Fuller developed. It has tendons outside the poles.

O 1 Tensgrity

2) The “basket weave tensegrity” model below is a form that I learned to make from Tony Pugh who was hired by Fuller at the design department at Southern Illinois University that he headed and I was a student in 1972-1974. It has tendons outside the poles like the one above.

O 2 Tensgrity

3) The model below shows my breakthrough to a new family of tensegrity with tendons on the inside of the poles. I used this concept to make tents for about 2 years.

O 3 Tensgrity

4) Below is an old model with bent brass “poles” that I “repaired” by adding new rubber bands (the old ones rotted) (this is the structure that i used in the oval) and shows my second tensegrity brakethrough where “multiple external flexed poles are slid-ably joined to an inner flexible net”.

O 4 Tensgrity

5) The rubber bands on the above model are replaced with fabric on the tensegrity tent below.

Momo First Oval

From here the NF made a production model below shown at SF MOMA 2012

Momo Me 1

Below is a model I made using coat hangers bent nails and cloth shown at MOMA 2012

Momo Modle

Some text from the MOMA show.

Momo Drawing

Momo Nf Me