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	Dymaxion house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor Buckminster Fuller to address several failures he perceived with extant homebuilding techniques.
		The Siberian grain-silo house was the first system in which Fuller noted the "dome effect." Many installations have reported that a dome induces a local vertical heat-driven vortex that sucks cooler air downward into a dome if the dome is vented properly (a single overhead vent, and peripheral vents).
		The Dymaxion house was the first conscious effort at an autonomous building in the twentieth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dymaxion_house (1078 words)

	Autonomous building
		Houses designed to cope with interruptions in civil services generally incorporate a wood stove, or heat from diesel fuel or bottled gas.
		Buckminster Fuller discovered this effect with a simple house design adapted from a grain silo, and adapted his Dymaxion house and geodesic domes to use it.
		In ancient Roman houses, the center of the rich man's atrium house was a cistern, fed from the roof during rain, and purified by water lilies.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Autonomous_building.html (2559 words)

	TellzAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Dymaxion House, a dome-shaped structure that looked like something out of a science fiction movie, could have been a common sight across the United States in the second half of the twentieth century.
		Fuller thought that the Dymaxion House could be a solution to the housing shortage, as it was possible to mass produce the structure and transport it to a final destination.
		The house was held together by a suspension system that radiated from a column in the center.
	www.ohiokids.org /tellzall/2005/may.shtml (573 words)

	White House Summary
		The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America.
		The White House is a white-painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president's administration.
		The White House was built after Congress established the District of Columbia as the permanent capital of the United States on July 16, 1790.
	www.bookrags.com /White_House (2505 words)

	September 13, 2001-Vol33n3: Eco-house aims to serve as model
		Amid the new residential buildings being erected around campus, there's a new house under construction—one that members of an eco-friendly student club are hoping will serve as a model of environmentally efficient quarters for the university and the community at large.
		The project, undertaken by members of the Dymaxion Eco-House Student Association, is intended as a research tool to examine the viability of environmentally efficient, low-budget homes, says Seth Galley, club president and a senior mechanical engineering major.
		The core group working on the house, both graduate students and undergraduates from a wide range of academic disciplines, expects construction—which involves laying the foundation, assembling the dome and building the walls—to be completed sometime this fall.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol33/vol33n3/n7.html (754 words)

	Buckminster Fuller Summary
		The factory-assembled Dymaxion house, prototyped within a year of his ouster from the construction firm, was built on a mast so that it could be easily moved from one site to another.
		The Dymaxion bathroom was a one-piece aluminum unit containing a "fog gun"—an economical showerhead using a mixture of 90 percent air and 10 percent water.
		One of Fuller's Dymaxion Houses is on display as a permanent exhibit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.
	www.bookrags.com /Buckminster_Fuller (9524 words)

	Halfbakery: House Like A Car
		The traditional house design is inefficient in maintainance, cost and space management, and trying to mimic traditional design with modern building materials is backwards.
		Houses with an internal frame of steel, are cheaper than wood and will continue to be cheaper as population grows.
		Plastic bottom coating of the house can preserve it for longer, and it is also forgotten that the HLAC will not encounter as much salt cause it won't be on a road.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/House_20Like_20A_20Car (1107 words)

	Dymaxion House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The house was a turn away from the orthogonal plan, hexagonal symmetry, a tripod supporting pole in the center from which cables stretch out to the decks- like spokes and a rim from the hub of a wheel.
		The Wichita House was a project Fuller took during WWII in trying to produce cost-effective dwelling for everyone.
		The project continued to develop the technological background of the concept behind the Dymaxion House (now incorporating a round floor plan instead of a hexagonal one.
	users.design.ucla.edu /~djvmc/24/bucky/house.html (145 words)

	Rhodomagnetic Digest #21 - Page 41 - Housing of the Future - Don Fabun
		So when Fuller sat down to plan a house, he started with the tetrahedron, which is defined as the geometric form enclosing the least volume with the most surface, and the sphere, which is the form that encloses the most volume with the least surface.
		The Dymaxion house, which offers as much shelter, more floor space, and cheaper costs than traditional houses, can be built with prefabricating machinery already to be found in most sheet-metal shops, on an assembly line basis, with mass production economies.
		The Dymaxion house, one of the first of the "buildings of the future", is an extreme departure from the houses you and I live in.
	fanac.org /fanzines/Rhodomagnetic/Rhodomagnetic21-41.html (1152 words)

	WNET: Bucky Fuller Dymaxion House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Dymaxion House was to be leased, or priced like an automobile (qt movie, 2.2mb), to be paid off in five years.
		The Dymaxion's round shape (qt movie, 2.2mb) minimized heat loss and the amount of materials needed, while bestowing the strength to successfully fend off a 1964 tornado that missed by only a few hundred yards.
		In 1998, you'll be able to see the restored Dymaxion House at the Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
	www.thirteen.org /bucky/house.html (298 words)

	Buckminster Fuller's Works & Word Coinings
		In general, anything called Dymaxion is supposed to yield the greatest efficiency possible through known technology.
		the dymaxion map divides the earth's surface into 20 equilateral spherical triangles radiating from the earth's center, without breakup of land masses.
		Free of visible distortion, the dymaxion projection may be viewed flat or assembled into three-dimensional form as an icosahedron.
	www.nices.com /RBFwords/index.html (977 words)

	Henry Ford Museum at The Henry Ford
		Take a personal tour through "the house of the future." This extraordinary dwelling was designed to be the strongest, lightest and most cost-effective housing ever built.
		Over the next eight years, staff researched the house, and cleaned and restored its 3,000 components.
		On October 24, 2001, the restoration complete, the Dymaxion House was opened to the public for first-hand viewing.
	www.hfmgv.org /museum/dymaxion/default.asp (170 words)

	BookPage Business & Finance Review: Bucky Works
		One of these was the all-aluminum Dymaxion House, which could be mass produced like a car and would cost about the same money per pound in 1927.
		By 1946 he had the first true Dymaxion House, a civilian version of the DDU built as postwar housing in cooperation with Beechcraft, the airplane company based in Wichita.
		This dwelling was destined to become known as the Wichita House, and represented the ultimate aircraft technology of the time applied to residential housing.
	www.bookpage.com /9608bp/business/buckyworks.html (425 words)

	PART7: Technology & the Home
		As explained earlier, he was disdainful of most architects because he felt that their approach to housing was inhibited by their fidelity "to the demands of style or tradition." In terms of housing, the only traditions to which Fuller conformed were those of providing shelter and comfort.
		In contrast to the fenestrated walls of the 4D House, the walls of the Dymaxion House were transparent plastic, fig.
		Therefore, by designing a house that drew upon current debates (role of the machine, standardization and mass-production in housing) and also drew upon concurrent aesthetics (raising the living areas above the ground, recreational use of the roof and window walls), Fuller was demonstrating his understanding of and desire to improve contemporary design and architectural theory.
	dsc.gc.cuny.edu /part/part7/articles/loranc.html (3926 words)

	Inventions: Twelve Around One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 1927 4D House, later called the Dymaxion House, achieved this through the separation of the elements of tension and compression, the first major technological innovation in housing in thousands of years.
		The accompanying screenprint image of the Dymaxion Deployment Unit is derived from a photograph by Arsene de Rosset in the archives of Buckminster Fuller.
		Circular in form, the Wichita House was a structure tensionally suspended from a central mast and braced to the ground.
	www.solwaygallery.com /Pages/twelve.html (2635 words)

	The Dymaxion Ideal... the Legacy.
		The house also alluded to features, which at the time, had not yet been invented; television, photoelectric cells, dishwashers, and doors with electric eyes.
		As part of an exhibition at the Marshall-Fields Department Store in 1929, the house was coined as the 'Dymaxion House'.
		The Dymaxion Bathroom was a pre-fabricated, plug-in unit occupying only twenty-five square feet in area.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/Architecture/33487 (535 words)

	Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age
		Although the houses that were designed and built in California as a part of this program now have the status of cult objects, at the time they were seen as "capable of duplication and in no sense be an 'individual' performance".
		Together they developed the Dymaxion Deployment Unit - a low cost house that was designed to capitalize on the potential of metal and benefit from the expertise in working with that material that the Butler Manufacturing Company had acquired since its founding in 1902.
		Later designs, like the prototype for Fuller's Dymaxion Wichita House that was built in 1947, were developed in an attempt to use new materials--predominantly metal--and redirect the expertise and facilities at former wartime factories and assembly plants.
	www.quonsethuts.org /book/chapter3.htm (673 words)

	» The Dymaxion HouseSolar panels, wind turbines, renewable energy, water - life off-grid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His Dymaxion house was designed to be the cheap and self-sufficient house of the future.
		The term Dymaxion was coined by Buckminster Fuller from a combination of his favourite words ‘dynamic’, ‘maximum’ and ‘tension’.
		So the Dymaxion house project never succeeded and no one lived in Buckminster’s house of the future, but one was built in Kansas in the 1950s’.
	www.off-grid.net /index.php?p=88 (573 words)

	Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion Deployment Unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Fuller began his "Dymaxion investigations in 1927, with a proposal for a mass produced bathroom and a house.
		Commissioned by the army for field housing, hundreds of these units were shipped to the Persian Gulf during World War Two.
		Fuller drew inspiration for the Dymaxion house, not from technological innovations, but from a structural form that he believed had already been well tested - a silo.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /studios/s97/burns/p_fullerd.html (171 words)

	Dymaxion Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was meant to be a revolution in the housing industry.
		Built out of stamped sheet metal, the Dymaxion House sat on a central pillar that contained all of the utility lines.
		Part of the reason for Dymaxion's inability to take the world by storm was probably Fuller's own interest in efficiency.
	davidszondy.com /future/Living/dymaxionhome.htm (186 words)

	Dymaxion timeline
		Dawes suggests building a prototype of Fuller's Dymaxion House for the Chicago World's Fair, asking Fuller for an estimate of cost.
		The cash is insufficient for the development of the Dymaxion house,.
		October 27: The first Dymaxion car is involved in a fatal accident outside the World's Fair.
	shl.stanford.edu /Bucky/dymaxion/timeline.htm (1010 words)

	CommUnity of Minds : Working Together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Because the Dymaxion House was to provide many new innovations at the very affordable suggested retail price of $6,500, orders flowed into the factory before plans for distribution were seriously considered.
		It had originally been constructed to house the Ford exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair of 1933, but Henry Ford had so loved the building that he had had it disassembled and shipped in pieces to Dearborn, where it was reconstructed.
		Like Dymaxion Deployment Units, the Ford dome was then built from the top down while being hoisted higher and rotated each time a section was completed.
	solutions.synearth.net /2002/12/19 (3154 words)

	Welcome To The Retro Future
		In 1930s, he designed a "house of tomorrow" called the 4D Dymaxion House which challenged nearly every assumption about housing construction.
		Mobility was another component -the 4D Dymaxion was literally a mobile home, built with light aluminum allowing it to be transported by dirigible.
		Any lingering hope the Dymaxion might go into full-scale production was dashed when the car was involved in a fatal accident at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
	www.retrofuture.com /bucky.html (624 words)

	Household Appliances in the 1920s
		In theory, however, Fuller's idea of including appliances as part of the house was not at all farfetched since paradigms for many of the appliances he stipulated were already considered standard home equipment by the late 1920s.
		Stuart is able to keep her house spotless, the laundry washed and ironed, and take her children on daily excursions.
		As a result, electricity and electrical appliances may have lessened the labor of cleaning a house, doing laundry and feeding a family, but, the car has prevented any decrease in the amount of time a housewife is required to devote to caring for her family.
	www.brickhaus.com /amoore/magazine/house.html (3143 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		His first invention to counter this problem was the Dymaxion House (1927), whose metal frame and glass walls were suspended from a central mast.
		The prefabricated, materials- and energy-efficient House was centrally air-conditioned and self-vacuuming (anticipating Frances Gabe by fifty years); it could be airlifted intact to almost any location.
		The car was a masterpiece of efficiency and economy: it was twenty feet long and held eleven passengers, but was as light as a VW Beetle, had only three wheels, and got thirty miles to the gallon.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/fuller.html (530 words)

	Jonathan Ochshorn —Steel—part 4 of 4
		The first truly influential steel-framed houses, built on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean at the end of the 1920s, rely for their expressive power on the juxtaposition of steel framing with large surfaces of glass.
		The van der Leeuw House is perhaps the most literally "machine-like" of all, boasting a whole array of electronic gadgetry and controls within a structure based on four parallel steel frames that penetrated the house from front to back.
		A different tendency can be seen in the polygonal Dymaxion House (1927) designed by Buckminster Fuller, in which a rigorous analysis of functionality and structural efficiency is combined with an interest in mass-production at low cost, unfettered by the aesthetic preoccupations of the European modernists.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/jo24/comments/steel-part4.html (1527 words)

	WNET: R. Buckminster Fuller
		The most famous of these was the pre-fabricated, pole-suspended single-unit dwelling Dymaxion House.
		(The term Dymaxion was derived from the words 'dynamic,' 'maximum,' and 'ion.') In 1933, he developed the three-wheeled, rear engine, streamlined Dymaxion Car.
		His Dymaxion Air-Ocean Map, which projected a spherical world as a flat surface with no visible distortion, brought him to the attention of the scientific community in 1943, and his map was the first cartographic projection of the world to ever be granted a U.S. patent.
	www.wnet.org /bucky/dare.html (709 words)

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