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I hope everyone has watched the video of the Metrodome collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n The moment when the fabric tears and a inverted volcano of snow pours onto the field is incredible, like a roof giving birth.\u00a0 (I tried to capture a still, but the wonder is all in the fluid motion.)<\/p>\n Parametrics should be the study of how to make more incredible roof collapse videos through incredibly complicated fabric roof designs. Imagine a series of collapses carefully cascading through some cavernous structure — a textile-roofed Boeing Everett Factory<\/a> cross-bred with the Istanbul Basilica Cistern<\/a> — with the whole roof having been structurally timed to produce this singular and ephemeral moment of destructive choreography.<\/p>\n The roof re-imagined as time-delayed fireworks by way of harnessed snowloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope everyone has watched the video of the Metrodome collapse. The moment when the fabric tears and a inverted volcano of snow pours onto the field is incredible, like a roof giving birth.\u00a0 (I tried to capture a still, but the wonder is all in the fluid motion.) Parametrics should be the study of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![Istanbul Basilica Cistern<\/a> — with the whole roof having been structurally timed to produce this singular and ephemeral moment of destructive choreography.<\/p>\nThe roof re-imagined as time-delayed fireworks by way of harnessed snowloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I hope everyone has watched the video of the Metrodome collapse. The moment when the fabric tears and a inverted volcano of snow pours onto the field is incredible, like a roof giving birth.\u00a0 (I tried to capture a still, but the wonder is all in the fluid motion.) Parametrics should be the study of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fichier:Istanbu_Basilica_Cistern.JPG\"){kind=link}