¶ Prestressed Concrete Sequence (3)
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Prestressed Concrete Sequence:
“This principle of tensional blueprints-- prestressed concrete is an example-- is manifesting itself as the direction which building will take. In order to make the resources of the Earth adequate to the needs of all people, we must increase the performance per pound of those resources in a very big way, thus giving man environmental controls. This must be done to accommodate all the new shifting patterns of man around the face of the Earth. We will have to employ nature’s much more economical grand logistical strategies. Emulating nature, man must distribute mathematical information as basic pattern, which does not weigh anything at all. The highly technical components of very fine high-tension steels and aluminums and fine alloys can then be centrally processed and distributed. Those will be used primarily for tensional functions, and will be rigidified by the local compressional pneumatics and hydraulics… This is the most comprehensive statement that I could make regarding the most recent discovery of nature’s forever permitted structural strategies.”
¶ Citations
- CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes., 1965. P. 88.
