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By Sara Hart

AIA/Architectural Record Continuing Education

Instructions

• Read the article “Buckminster Fuller’s Dreams of Spanning Great Distances Are Being Realized in Big Projects"
• Complete the questions below, then fill in your answers .
• Fill out and submit the AIA/CES education reporting form in the magazine or print the form to receive one AIA learning unit.

Questions:

LU: 1 HS: 1

1. Tensegrity describes which structural relationship principle?
a. continuous tensional behaviors
b. exclusively local compressional behaviors
c. continuous perimeter compression

2. Which of these is the prototype for all long-span tensile membrane roofs?
a. Geodesic dome
b. Cabledome
c. Astrodome
d. Aspension Dome

3. Only the following materials—fiberglass fabric, steel cables, a concrete ring girder, and an earth beam—were needed for the primary structural system and enclosure of which project?
a. U.S. Pavilion at Expo 70
b. Cabledome
c. Astrodome
d. Miller Park

4. Which structure has the only fan-shaped retractable roof?
a. U.S. Pavilion at Expo 70
b. Cabledome
c. Astrodome
d. Miller Park

5. Which is the disadvantage of a stadium roof with trusses underneath?
a. it is a less bulky roof
b. it uses a cable truss on the interior
c. it must be taller for clearance inside
d. it causes interference with high balls

6. Why is the CargoLifter CL 160 hangar covered with translucent PVC mesh?
a. to provide natural ventilation
b. to bring in additional daylight
c. to allow for the shape of the blimps
d. to withstand the wind

7. Which element is the same in both the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 70 and the Glass House at the National Botanic Garden of Wales?
a. vinyl-coated fiberglass roof
b. concrete ring beam resting on an earth beam
c. an oval glass dome
d. tubular steel arches

8. Why does the Glass House at the National Botanic Garden tilt to the south?
a. to maximize daylight inside
b. to catch the rainwater for watering plants
c. to maximize southern balmy breezes
d. to align with the magnetic north pole

9. The Glass House ventilation system is computer controlled for which?
a. temperature
b. wind speed
c. humidity
d. all of the above

10. The x, y, and z coordinates of the oval Glass House were tied to which?
a. traditional survey grid lines
b. fixed landmarks
c. Wales National Ordnance survey grid lines
d. both fixed landmarks and Wales National Ordnance survey grid lines

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