CATENARY BASED FERRO CEMENT SHELL: EVOLUTION OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEM

From the beginning of living history, human wants to create or separate from nature by making subset environment to achieve their different goals or comfort. These goals may be define as protection from nature and other living creatures, enhancing comfort and masking/hiding valuables. These attempts are known as architectural designs and structural innovations, here architectural design is physical art and act of resolving the conflict and his environment and structural innovation are the product of architectural design process with respect to resistance to nature and other threats. In this paper we will discuss evolution of structural systems through historical continuity, regional and specific site conditions, societal mentality and technological advancement.