Architectural Support Mechanism

[Rob MacKillop]

Heavily cropped. Q3. I know that many architects study flower structures. I have seen a man-made structure similar to this, I just can't remember where exactly.

Charles Darwin: "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved".

 

[Ralph Turner]

Reminds me of those Singapore supertrees. As always and as shown admirably here, Mother Nature got there first and did a better job of it.

Btw, I s'pose, when you say heavily cropped, you're only left with a miserly twenty megapixels, or something..

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Haha. Possibly.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

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Heavily cropped. Q3. I know that many architects study flower structures. I have seen a man-made structure similar to this, I just can't remember where exactly.

Charles Darwin: "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved".

Beautiful image! The most intriguing part for me is the dark envelope of bracts at the base of the umbrella with its crosses of sharp points.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I had to look up ‘bracts’. Thanks for teaching me something quite useful, Gianluca!

 

[Gianluca Drago]

I had to look up ‘bracts’. Thanks for teaching me something quite useful, Gianluca!

I had to look it up too

 

[Ralph Turner]

Beautiful image! The most intriguing part for me is the dark envelope of bracts at the base of the umbrella with its crosses of sharp points.

Indeed, Gianluca. A fab image of a beautiful subect ('fab' and 'beautiful' are interchangeable here). I've only just properly noticed how the individual little flower heads are 'mini me's' of the greater whole. One of those fractal moments..

 

[Brian Moore]

I have seen a man-made structure similar to this, I just can't remember where exactly.

It makes me think of the the birdsnest stadium in China and also of the ceiling in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Great shot, Rob.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

I have seen a man-made structure similar to this

The inflorescence of an umbellifer seen from below has the architecture of a church dome seen from within, only this one is convex while that one is concave, and in this one the darker parts are in the centre of the scene, while in that one they are on the periphery.
If it reminds you of something you've seen before, perhaps search your memory in this regard: a dome seen in negative.

If, on the other hand, you are not thinking in terms of volume and light, but in terms of structural elements, every iron engineering structure of the last century (bridges, towers, stadiums, the Eiffel Tower itself) has something in common.

Stylistically, your inflorescence reminds me of Liberty's fantasies.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Stylistically, your inflorescence reminds me of Liberty's fantasies.

Gianluca, do you mean this kind of thing? https://www.tessuti-shop.com/products/fantasy-land-white-liberty-tana-lawn

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Gianluca, do you mean this kind of thing? https://www.tessuti-shop.com/products/fantasy-land-white-liberty-tana-lawn

Not exactly, no. But I don't have an example for you, st the moment.