NON-TECTONIC SYSTEMS: INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOPS THE "TILT-LIFT" BUILDING METHOD

Abstract

The tilt-lift building method introduces an adaptation of the non-tectonic systems for mass construction of industrial workshops. This fundamentally new building method of technological relevance for hot arid tropical areas is realized by transplantable factories and has been designed in such a way as to render it possible-interalia-to build industrial workshops in any remote area without being bound to definite spans; then, to construct very large size elements-even with unskilled workers-without requiring transportation; finally, to develop a building method in which the point precisely is to tilt and lift expressly big volumens-structural elements of 10-40 tons-without requiring any lifting equipment independent from the structure; etc. The non tectonic systems are based on the recognition that tectonics is not the only possible axiom of building and the tilt-lift 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 building if we break with the axiom of tectonics.