Structural system

A building system for assembled, self-supporting and faceted polyhedral shells including zomes, comprising:

• prefabricated, solid plates as material components, joined along their edges without nodes on their corner points, wherein:
• two neighboring, differently inclined plates are joined everywhere by their side faces according to one of:
• both ways occurring in the same building;
• directly to one another, if the adjoining side faces are parallel without any distance;
• and via bars as complementary components along some joints;
• each said bar fills completely one of:
• a cleft along the joint between two plates touching one another only by one edge line;
• and an oblong gap, necessarily continuing a cleft, between two plates touching one another nowhere;
• the adjoining side faces of two plates, of a plate and a bar, and of two bars side by side are congruent everywhere and have the shape of an oblong parallelogram having two shorter and two longer edges;
• said plates and bars are in the form of a slanted prism;
• said plates are in the form of a flat parallelepiped having an extensive polygonal base defining the top and bottom surface of a plate;
• said bars are in the form of a stretched parallelepiped having a small quadratic base defining the ends of a bar;
• the quadratic faces on the ends of different bars are equal everywhere;
• said two shorter edges of each said parallelogram have the length of said quadratic faces;
• said shorter edges are always disposed parallel to the areas of a cartesian coordinate system;
• two bars adjoin on one of their ends always according to one of:
• directly, if said quadratic faces on the ends are parallel without any distance;
• and via cubes having said quadratic faces too, if there are gaps between the ends of neighboring bars, filling them completely.