The Frontier Atlas
1 ENTRY CHARTED · SURVEY LIVE

Architecture

How the emerging world builds — compression-only shells, earth structures, living materials, homes grown rather than assembled. Each entry charts the structural lineage it stands on and the claims still waiting on an independent test.

Survey plate — cutaway study of a compression-shell dome dwelling with catenary curves, an indoor garden and faint construction sketches

PLATE V — THE COMPRESSION SHELL, IN SECTION