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The opposing forces that act upon the world are as obvious as they are invisible; tension and compression make up the twin logics of pulling and pushing, distance and proximity, stretching and squashing. When these forces are balanced in equal opposition to one another, they create the conditions for harmonious architecture. One term for this is tensional integrity, or "tensegrity."
The Temple of Floating Compression is a tensegrity sculpture made of a dozen wooden beams that do not touch each other, but are instead held apart by stainless steel cables. In the center, suspended, is a ten foot diameter tensegrity icosahedron.
The sparse, gravity-defying, improbable structure creates a contemplative, reflective mood.