ABSTRACT

ALOSS is an acronym for “Album of Spatial Structures”. This is the name for a database of spatial structures from all over the world containing building names, photographs, addresses, architects, structural engineers, completion years, and so on. The paper results that ALOSS is a useful source of information for students, architects and engineers interested in study of various types of the shell and spatial structures. It applies a pictorial and a keyword search method. The paper presents precisely and briefly all the basic aspects of ALOSS and especially the way of finding specific information about required spatial structure.