The Tenammock is a tensegrity hammock placed outside of the school library. Fabric and materials like tarp and rope will be strung between the structural members to make a comfortable and cool-looking hammock. 

Building hammocks outside of the library we would add much-needed seating to this area of the school grounds. This would allow people eating lunch outside or resting to be able to sit in a comfortable hammock, rather than on one of the crowded benches or on the uncomfortable ground.

The design changed greatly over the course of the semester. The original design was just a simple hammock between two of the pillars in front of the library. However, having a one-person hammock wouldn’t add the amount of seating area the school's library needs. The design then changed to include a third pole, thus giving it a wider, more triangular shape that would allow more people to sit on it. It would also be dual layer, creating a space for people to sit on top of the hammock in the sun while providing students sitting below with shade. Luis, a NuVu coach from Cambridge, introduced the concept of tensegrity to the project. After researching tensegrity structures a bit more we decided to incorporate this into our hammock.

We started by constructing a basic three-pole tensegrity model using rubber bands that ran from the ends of each stick. Rubber bands kept the poles in constant tension, allowing them to maintain the model’s three-dimensional shape. We ended up making two of these models, one with the poles made from circular dowels and one made with square dowels. This allowed us to see how the cross section of the poles affected the way they moved when we applied pressure to them. Then by running fabric on the outside of the model in different fashions we were able to create several different hammock structures. We then tried to make even more seating area by weaving some string across a different part of the model. Our final model is ¼ scale and is made from PVC and steel wire. These materials give the design more stability but sacrifice some of its flexibility. Although we never fully completed it, our designs prove that we could build a full-scale hammock that we see as not only being a comfortable place to sit, but also as a cool design that will be an overall benefit to Episcopal’s campus.