ciro najle general design bureau

Thrust order is a lineage of columns generated through the variation of a regime of thrust where an unstable tensile medium becomes expressive of the struggle for dominance between refrained compressive forces. A round piece of fabric is folded to contain a mass of fine particles from lateral expansion. The resistance of the particles to compression, their capacity to accommodate to each other, and their tendency to disaggregate, expand and fall, compel the fabric to take the form of a manifold of catenary surfaces.

 

The base, development and culmination of the classical orders are blurred and integrated in a continuous and structurally interdependent mass. Capital, shaft, and basement take over each other through multiple protuberances that can be fine-tuned through simple regulatory mechanisms: initial redundant radius, inner entasis relaxation, progression in shaft rhythm, and degree of capital closure. Thrust order does not represent forces but makes expressive use of their being under threat in real time.