Patent Document ID: 20080244992
Application ID: 11784584
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for the construction of a structure comprising a multiplicity of joined hyperbolic paraboloid faces, each formed on an a-planar quadrilateral frame, said joined a-planar quadrilateral frames composing an underframing which is completed by inframing to compose a framework, and covered with sheeting material, being a method of constructing enclosures with hyperbolic paraboloid faces, said structures being formed by the following process: arranging of N ridge members laid out substantially radially, to be connected to each other with a flexible attaching means at an apex arrangement of 2N leg members laid out surrounding said ridge members attaching outer ends of said leg members to each other with a flexible attaching means, wherein N foot joints are formed attaching inner ends of each pair of leg members to outer ends of each ridge member with a flexible attaching means, wherein N peak joints are formed N quadrilateral frames, joined by their shared connection at said ridge members, form an underframing attaching inframing members, said members arranged substantially parallel to one another and to a leg and ridge member within each of said quadrilateral frames, to the other leg and ridge members of said quadrilateral frames with a flexible attaching means said underframing and said inframing together forming an assembled framework attaching tension restraining members connecting each of said peak joints raising said assembled framework of said attached members to a desired height, wherein triangular openings are formed, and said quadrilateral frames become a-planar attaching a covering material to said framework comprising a-planar quadrilateral frames formed after erection, wherein N hyperbolic paraboloid faces are formed.