tensegrity
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tensegrity (countable and uncountable, plural tensegrities)
(architecture, physics) tensional integrity (of a structure)
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To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.
In structural engineering, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( EPFL ) has incorporated biomimetic characteristics in an adaptive deployable "tensegrity" bridge.
Here the term "Dymaxion" is used in effect to signify a "radically strong and light tensegrity structure".
As well as contributing significantly to the development of tensegrity technology, Fuller invented the term " tensegrity " from tensional integrity.
This is an architecture described as "an inhabitable cloud whirling above a lake", built with an atmosphere of fog surrounding a lightweight tensegrity structure convert.