Building structures

Claim 2

Building structure with stories and rooms made up by beams joined by junction devices and forming between two consecutive stories of the building a plurality of octahedral units some of which adjoin each other; each of said octahedral units being provided with parallel first and second faces in the floors of said consecutive stories; adjoining octahedral units having only one common inclined edge, said building having rooms which are set up by prisms between said consecutive stories; and said prisms being provided with vertical axis the lateral walls of which are vertical rectangular panels; each of said prisms including a beam directed upon a diagonal of said panel; said junction device comprising firSt and second disc members with cooperating projections and recesses for engaging the beams; and said prisms having a hexagonal shape and forming said rooms while the floors and the ceilings of said rooms are made up by horizontal regular hexagons.

Claim 3

Building structure as claimed in claim 1, in which said hexagons forming floors and ceilings of said rooms each have three beams forming an equilateral triangle and connecting the apices of said hexagons in pairs.

Claim 4

Building structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the beam which is directed upon the diagonal of said rectangular panels is a common bar to two adjacent octahedral units.

Claim 5

Building structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rooms formed by hexagonal prisms are divided in two rooms having trapezoidal floors and ceilings by a rectangular wall going through a diagonal of said regular horizontal hexagons and including a beam going through one of its diagonals.

Claim 6

Building structure as claimed in claim 1 wherein said co-operating first and second disc members of said junction device have substantially the same thickness and one is the mirror image of the order, said co-operating projections and recesses engaging together without play; each disc member having three equi-angularly spaced radial slots with walls parallel to an axis passing perpendicularly through the disc center, and three flat and equi-angularly spaced peripheral projections each consisting of a 60* part-cylindrical segment having an external part-cylindrical face coinciding with the discperiphery, an internal part-cylindrical face, two plane faces parallel to said axis and respectively parallel to the walls of the adjacent slots, a further plane face parallel to said axis and intersecting one of said plane faces at 60* to form a triangular shoulder on said internal cylindrical face, the three plane faces being slightly shifted in the same sense with respect to the respective radial slots, not more than six oblique beam-end-receiving stubs held between the engaged disc members and each having a generally triangular flat heel piece whose thickness is substantially the same as that of the projecting portions on each disc, with a part-cylindrical face engaging the inner cylindrical face of the respective disc member projection and two faces intersecting at 60* directed towards the disc centers, the stub extending obliquely away from its heel piece and a portion thereof adjacent the heel piece having a cut-out notch whose dimension perpendicular to the heel piece is substantially equal to the thickness of the projecting disc portions and a set of at most six radial beam-end-receiving stubs each with a bifurcate end defining respective flat, parallel and segment-shaped tines whose separation is substantially equal to the overall thickness of the two disc members when assembled together, the radial stubs being attached to the assembled discs by engaging the discs between the tines.