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During an exhibition devoted to construction, held in Moscow in 1921, Johanssen presented a sculpture made with three struts and eight cables. This system had no rigidity, and its mechanisms could be activated with one of the cables. It was a kind of “ proto-form ”. In 1948, Kenneth Snelson worked with Richard Buckminster Fuller, in Black Mountain College. Fuller wanted to realize his idea of “ islands of compression inside a sea of tension ”. In response, Snelson made three models (see Motro, 1996).
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Motro, R., Vassart, N. (2001). Tensegrity Systems. In: Pellegrino, S. (eds) Deployable Structures. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 412. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2584-7_10
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