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The students made a structure of ropes that formed catenary

One of the fundamental laws of architecture is the force of gravity; the attraction to the ground. What could be a restriction becomes a source of solutions if the properties and physical laws of materials are known. 

In this exercise, the students of the 1st year of Architecture had to make a structure from which they hung ropes that form catenaries. To do this, these ropes only had to support their own weight. This project It was done as a complement to an exercise they had done previously. 

Catenary

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