Making an “Impossible” Tensegrity Table

I’ve been seeing a lot of tensegrity (and tensegrity-adjacent) table and other furniture designs recently.

Tensegrity is a Bucky Fuller design principle that applies when a discontinuous set of compression elements is opposed and balanced by a continuous tensile force (i.e. tension integrity), thereby creating an internal stress that stabilizes the entire structure.

In this Evan and Katelyn video, they build a floating table using tension integrity. When finished, they marvel at how stable the result is and how much weight it can handle without movement. Pretty nifty.