At its simplest, Flextegrity’s present invention is an omni-extensible array comprised of icosa- hedral elements held in a tensile matrix. The invention is the architecture itself, independent of the materials from which it might be formed, and is inherently stable, permeable and ordered. In the abstract this geometry can be expressed without regard to size or location, therefore it is scalable from the very small to the very large.
As an omni-extensible patterned array that can be assembled or deconstructed without loss of integrity, the material can be shaped or molded into many forms. The icosahedral elements are not ‘close- packed’ at equilibrium, and as such the array is permeable.
