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A monocoque building shell is made up of multiple sections of a compound curved shape. Along the axial length of the building the walls and roof are madeup of a repeated smooth wave form, the amplitude of the wave being in proportion to the stresses generated in the shell as a function of its weight

A monocoque building shell is made up of multiple sections of a compound curved shape. Along the axial length of the building the walls and roof are madeup of a repeated smooth wave form, the amplitude of the wave being in proportion to the stresses generated in the shell as a function of its weight and shape and assumed loads such as snow. In the transverse direction the roof is an hyperbolic shape from the roof center to the corner where the shape curves downward into vertical walls. The wall construction is of insulative foam in a sandwich between inner and outer skins of fiberglass.

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A monocoque building shell of a given axial length formed by repeated elements adjoining along the axial length of the building, including roof and sidewall portions, composed of a compound curvature, a single, continuous curve in the transverse direction and a repeating curve in the axial direction

A monocoque building shell of a given axial length formed by repeated elements adjoining along the axial length of the building, including roof and sidewall portions, composed of a compound curvature, a single, continuous curve in the transverse direction and a repeating curve in the axial direction, and all similar about an axial plane midway between the building sidewalls, the improvement comprising: the shell made up of a continuous undulating wall of smooth wave-shaped form, the wave proceeding in its undulation in the direction of the building axis, the amplitude and cycle length of the waves being defineable by cross sections through the shell made by planes parallel to the building axis, the amplitude of the waves being variable in the cross sections which are made proceeding along the shell from the roof center to the bottom of the side walls, the amplitude at a given position being in direct proportion to the sum of all stressing moments determined to be imposed at the given position.