Shukhov Rotunda

Shukhov Rotunda

Shukhov Rotunda, round exhibition pavilion for the All-Russia Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod of 1896 with lattice hanging covering (tensile gridshell - lattice roof, Russian Empire patent №1894 dated March 12, 1899) and the World First Membrane roof (in center of the Rotunda). Designed by Vladimir Shukhov in 1895. [ cite web | title = Rotunda of the Panrussian Exposition | date = 2007 | publisher = Nicolas Janburg, ICS | work = International Database and Gallery of Structures | url = http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0000385 | accessdate = 2007-11-28]

The diameter of Rotunda - 68 meters, height - 16 meters, the diameter of steel Membrane - 25 meters.

ee also

* Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov
* Thin-shell structure
* List of thin shell structures
* Tensile and membrane structures
* All-Russia exhibition 1896
* Structural engineering

References

* "The Nijni-Novgorod exhibition: Water tower, room under construction, springing of 91 feet span", "The Engineer", № 19.3.1897, P.292-294, London, 1897.
* William Craft Brumfield: [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft1g5004bj&chunk.id=d0e122 "The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture"] , University of California Press, 1991, ISBN 0-520-06929-3.
* [http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/inventories/English.html Elizabeth C. English] : [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9989589/ “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”,] a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
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* Rainer Graefe, Jos Tomlow: “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9.
* Picon, Antoine (dir.): "L'art de l'ingenieur : constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur", Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, ISBN 2-85850-911-5
* [http://www.giovannardierontini.it/ Fausto Giovannardi] : [http://www.costruzioni.net/articoli/Shukhov/Shukhov.pdf "Vladimir G. Shukhov e la leggerezza dell’acciaio"] , Borgo San Lorenzo, 2007.
* Шухов В. Г.: Избранные труды, том 1, «Строительная механика», 192 стр., под ред. А. Ю. Ишлинского, Академия наук СССР, Москва, 1977.
* Грефе Р. и др.: [http://www.oglibrary.ru/data/demo/5644/5644.html «В. Г. Шухов (1853—1939). Искусство конструкции.»] , «Мир», Москва, 1994, ISBN 5-03-002917-6.
* Шухова Е. М.: «Владимир Григорьевич Шухов. Первый инженер России.», 368 стр., Изд. МГТУ, Москва, 2003, ISBN 5-7038-2295-5.


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