Monday, April 09, 2012

[udxcgaxn] Load bearing poles for dancing

Let architecture reflect the current popularity of the dance form.  Wherever a load-bearing internal column is needed, let it be a pole suitable for pole dancing.  The obvious first places are dance studios which are often wide areas needing ceiling support, and which often offer pole dancing classes anyway.  But it would be interesting to see them elsewhere, perhaps subtly causing change in society?

This is almost certainly a nontrivial engineering problem, with the relatively thin pole encountering both vertical and horizontal forces.  Do dancers rely on the small amount of flex that a traditional pole gives?

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