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The Shukhov Tower in Polibino, designed in 1896 by
The research of the Shukhov's world's first hyperboloid structure
Prof. Dr. Armin Grün
Photos of Polibino and vicinities
* William Craft Brumfield
"The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture"
University of California Press, 1991, .
"Invention of Hyperboloid Structures"
Metropolis & Beyond, 2005.
“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. *Rainer Graefe, Jos Tomlow: “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853–1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, . *Fausto Giovannardi
"Vladimir G. Shukhov e la leggerezza dell’acciaio"
Borgo San Lorenzo, 2007.
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The Shukhov Tower in Polibino, designed in 1896 by Russia
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n engineer
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and architect
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Vladimir Shukhov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (; – 2 February 1939) was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in indu ...
, is the world's first diagrid
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hyperboloid structure
Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high above the grou ...
. The tower is today located in the former estate of Yury Nechaev-Maltsov
Yury Stepanovich Nechaev-Maltsov (1834–1913) was a leading glassware manufacturer, landlord, patron of the arts, and the major private donor to the Pushkin Museum. He owned a number of shops in Moscow and St. Petersburg where the glassware ...
in the selo of Polibino in Lipetsk Oblast
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in Russia.
History
Vladimir Shukhov invented hyperboloid towers and was also the first one to use them inconstruction
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. For the 1896 All-Russia industrial and art exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod
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he built the steel
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diagrid
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tower
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, which became the first hyperboloid structure
Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high above the grou ...
in the world. The hyperboloid
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steel gridshell
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attracted attention of European observers. In particular, the British magazine '' The Engineer'' published an article about the tower.
After the exhibition closed, the openwork
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tower was bought by a leading glassware manufacturer and art sponsor, Yury Nechaev-Maltsov. It was relocated to his estate in Polibino where it has been preserved until now. The estate is currently under state protection (federal level) as a former property of the Nechayev family. The estate consists of a palace, English park
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, regular gardens, ponds, and more.
In the subsequent years, Vladimir Shukhov developed numerous structures of various hyperboloid
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steel gridshell
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The grid can be made of any materia ...
s and used them in hundreds of water tower
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s, sea lighthouses, masts of warships and supports for power transmission lines. Similar hyperboloid structure
Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high above the grou ...
s appeared abroad only ten years after Shukhov's invention
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See also
*List of hyperboloid structures
This page is a list of hyperboloid structures. These were first applied in architecture by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939). Shukhov built his first example as a water tower (hyperboloid, hyperbolic Thin-shell structure, shell) f ...
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References
External links
The research of the Shukhov's world's first hyperboloid structure
Prof. Dr. Armin Grün
Photos of Polibino and vicinities
* William Craft Brumfield
"The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture"
University of California Press, 1991, .
"Invention of Hyperboloid Structures"
Metropolis & Beyond, 2005.
a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000. *Rainer Graefe, Jos Tomlow: “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853–1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, . *Fausto Giovannardi
"Vladimir G. Shukhov e la leggerezza dell’acciaio"
Borgo San Lorenzo, 2007.
Photos