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Airplane Hangar, project R. Buckminster Fuller
This design for an airplane hangar uses Fuller’s octet truss to form its lightweight, long-span space frame structure. Patented in 1961, the octet truss is a compound of a tetrahedron (a triangular pyramid) and an octahedron (a solid form with eight triangular faces). Fuller searched for inexpensive, high-performance materials and economical building procedures. Much of his research was in geodesic structures, in which the tetrahedron is the basic unit. These are three-way grids in which all members of the structure are mutually supportive, or synergetic. The efficiency of the overall structure allows for more slender individual members and reduced construction costs. Fuller’s research into lightweight, energy-efficient space frame structures was an important reference for avant-garde architects of the 1960s in their experiments with megastructures.
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Photo from the exhibit “Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe.”
The title of the exhibit, comes from Fuller’s lifelong commitment to solving problems by investigating the basic order of nature and then utilizing the pertinent patterns uncovered there. The exhibit demonstrates how Fuller fulfilled his personal job description of “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist”: an interdisciplinary, forward-looking explorer discovering how to benefit the greatest number of people while expending the fewest natural resources—akin perhaps to Jeremy Bentham. Here as elsewhere Fuller made up terms that were sometimes clear, sometimes irritating. To his great credit, as the exhibit likewise shows, Fuller’s emphasis on “spaceship earth”—another of his terms—and on its fragile ecology contributed significantly to the growing post–World War II awareness of a world of integrated parts and people, of complex environmental systems requiring constant care.
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Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome on US pavilion at Montreal Expo ‘67, 1967.
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Bucky Fuller
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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller Color Plates
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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller Color Plates
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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller
Fig. 1132.01B Composite of Vector Equilibrium and Icosahedron Great Circle Setsfound: here
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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller Color Plates/ Fig. 16
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