ARTÍCULO
TITULO

Development of reentrant hexatruss structures to apply to architecture

Mª Dolores Álvarez Elipe    
Jesús Anaya Díaz    

Resumen

Architecture is totally linked to the knowledge and study of geometry. The re-entrant hexatruss structure is part of the auxetic structures. These structures, characterized by its negative Poisson?s ratio, change their geometric configuration from a line to a surface and from a surface to a volume or spatial framework. This project is based on establishing those re-entrant hexatruss geometries to be able to build new spaces in architecture, studying analytically geometric and structural properties of auxetic materials and structures that can be a part of the architecture construction.