Nanogels + Tensile Structures = Insulated Translucent Lightweight Roof
Images credit Birdair Tensotherm Back in 1967 at Expo67 and then at the Munich Olympics in 1972, German engineer Frei Otto wowed the world with his tensile structures, roofs of fabric that could cover huge spans with light weight. Single layer tensile roofs were beautifully translucent, but had little or no insulation value. Air supported roofs, a form of tensile structure invented by Walter Bird, suffered the same problem; as we saw in the
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Nanogels + Tensile Structures = Insulated Translucent Lightweight Roof
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