Infancia y experiencias de tracción en la obra de R. B. Fuller. Childhood and tension experiences in the work of R.B.Fuller

Resumen

Fuller relaciona explícitamente su trayectoria con una infancia cargada de experiencias marcadas por una fusión entre lo biológico y lo cultural, constituyendo una de las principales fuentes del imaginario que manejará a lo largo de su vida. Juegos móviles de infancia como el columpio, la rueda, o el globo, caracterizados por su condición dinámica, servirán como vehículos narrativos que proporcionan un contexto para relacionar infancia, ciencia, técnica y arquitectura a través de una aproximación universal.

Fuller explicitly connects his career with a childhood full of experiences marked by a merger between the biological and the cultural, constituting a major source of imagery, handled over his whole life. Childhood mobile games like the rope, kyte, swing, wheel, or balloon, all characterized by their dynamic condition, serve as narrative vehicles and provide a context to relate childhood, science and architectural design through an universal approach. We pose three elementary cathegories, in order to trace a genealogy of primary technical objects which operate under tension and mobility principles. Rescued experiences, notions and attitudes from Fuller’s childhood memories, refer to the experience of tension which, in clear contrast with traditional structural methods, which perpetuate the Euclidean, the stable, the massive and the compressive, promote multipolar, dynamic en the ephimeral.