page_title: Hyperboloid structure
hierarchical_section_title: Hyperboloid structure
caption_attribution_description: The Hyperboloid water tower - the world's first steel diagrid shell structure by the great Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939) in 1896. The All-Russia industrial and art exhibition 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod.
context_page_description: Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures such as towers where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high off the ground, but hyperboloid geometry is also often used for decorative effect as well as structural economy. The first hyperboloid structures were built by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov. The world's first hyperboloid tower is located in Polibino, Dankovsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia.
context_section_description: Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures such as towers where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high off the ground, but hyperboloid geometry is also often used for decorative effect as well as structural economy. The first hyperboloid structures were built by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939).  The world's first hyperboloid tower is located in Polibino, Dankovsky District, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia.
caption: The world's first hyperboloid structure lattice 37-meter water tower by Vladimir Shukhov, All-Russian Exposition, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1896
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