The historical meaning is a synonym for a gable roof particularly a dual pitched roof on a tower also called a pack saddle roof.
Saddle roof tensile structure.
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Tensile membrane structures have a signature visual character and give designers architects and engineers the ability to experiment with form and create new exciting solutions to conventional design problems.
A tensile structure is a construction of elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending.
The term tensile should not be confused with tensegrity which is a structural form with both tension and compression elements.
A twisted hyperbolic paraboloid shape also called anticlastic structure or saddle roof is one of the most common of all tensile membrane structures e g sun shade sail fabric structure due to its aesthetically pleasing look.
Most tensile structures are supported by some form of compression or bending elements such as masts compression rings or beams.
A tensile membrane structure is most often used as a roof as they ca.
Sometimes referred to as a hypar the saddle roof may also be formed as a tensegrity structure.
Mathematically a saddle shape contains at least one saddle point.
Some of the many natural applications for tensile architecture include.
Tensile cable supported domes mast or flying mast supported arch supported radial conical designs folded plate and saddle roof structures.