One-way hanging roof - ichihokou tsuriyane

…They have been widely used since the mid-20th century, and have developed especially with the construction of facilities for the World's Fair and the Olympic Games. Cable structures in architecture are divided into suspended roof structures, which are applied to roofs, and suspended floor structures, which are applied to floors. The former can be further classified according to the method of force transmission (how the cables are tensioned), into one-way suspended roofs, two-way suspended roofs, and radial suspended roofs. One-way suspended roofs have a structural form in which a group of cables are tensioned in parallel. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "one-way suspended roofs" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…広く用いられるようになったのは20世紀中ごろからであり，とくに万国博覧会やオリンピックの施設の建設を契機として発展してきた。建築におけるケーブル構造は，屋根に適用するつり屋根構造と床に適用する場合のつり床構造に分けられ，さらに，前者を力の伝達形式(ケーブルの張り方)によって分類すると，一方向つり屋根，二方向つり屋根，放射状つり屋根となる。一方向つり屋根は一群のケーブルを平行に張った構造形式をもつ。…

※「一方向つり屋根」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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