what kind of truss is this
 

what kind of truss is this?
can anyone tell me what kind of truss is shown in the attached picture and how it is build.
from what i can see it doesn't look like a truss at all but maybe some tying members across a hip a rafter type construction with some curved
it is not a truss. it looks like a variation of a geodesic, curved plate structure.
ps....it is like a proprietary design.
pps...meant to say "it is likely a proprietary design"
a structural engineer's attempt at bad architecture? primitive honeycomb structure?
i see similar construction in the tacoma dome, but based on triangles rather than the parallellograms shown here. i also see hip and ridge beams here, and i use the term "beams" loosely, very loosely.
mike mccann
mmc engineering
maybe diamond truss system?
thanks to all that responded. this is a very interesting structure in that it is self supporting and relies on adjacent members for support. it appears that each
to me this looks like a barrel vault with curved ends. the roof beams are diagonal instead of parallel to the axis of the vault. there appears to be a longitudinal
i would describe this as a waffle shell, or ribbed shell structural system. good luck.
this is what is called a lamella roof, i believe.