NON-TECTONIC SYSTEMS: COMMUNAL BUILDINGS THE "LIFT-CELL" BUILDING METHOD

Abstract

The lift-cell building method ex amplifies an adaptation of the non-tectonic systems for mass-construction of multi-level communal buildings. This fundamentally new building method of technological relevance for hot arid tropical areas is equally realizable by planted or transplantable factory and has been designed in such a way as to give optimum solution for any requirement prevalent today in these areas. The nontectonic systems are based on the recognition that tectonics is not the only possible axiom of building and the lift-cell building method gives a further proof that such an axiomatic change is realizable and that we may open new, hitherto unknown ways of industrialization of huilding if we break with the axiom of tectonics.