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The tendency to the individual shaping of an architectural view of space structures leads sometimes to the search for new arrangements of component parts of these structures and their reciprocal juxtapositions. The merger procedure of these elements determines a geometric form of the inner construction of a given space structure and technical conditions connected with its application. This paper presents, having in mind architectural advantages, some examples of geometrical shaping of the inner construction of multi-layer space structures and some proposals of their application as structures for large span covers. The systems presented of the proposed space frameworks were obtained by help of modification of a bar arrangement within chosen symmetric modular sets of a certain group of space structures. The application proposals of the presented group of space structures were shown mainly on examples of spherical covers.

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Space Structures — Proposals for Shaping

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