If you dont like what you see from your bedroom window....just rotate your home
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All I can say is: I want that house.
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I wonder what solution they used for plumbing and wiring? Moving parts... (sounds like a high maintenance house :) )
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
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I wonder what solution they used for plumbing and wiring? Moving parts... (sounds like a high maintenance house :) )
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
Pierre Leclercq wrote:
sounds like a high maintenance house
it would be worth in some cases though, e.g. you have two beauties in houses on either side of your house ;)
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Pierre Leclercq wrote:
sounds like a high maintenance house
it would be worth in some cases though, e.g. you have two beauties in houses on either side of your house ;)
TheIndian wrote:
you have two beauties in houses on either side of your house
:-D Also I found a video about the house that shows plumbing: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/video/default.htm?program=newinventors&pres=20060927_2000&story=3[^]
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
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Buckminster Fuller designed the Dymaxion Houses in the late 1920's. One version was designed to be built on a rotating platform. The core which housed all the plumping etc. did not rotate. After WWII, (when the aircraft companies were looking for something to do after all the military contracts were canceled), there was a project to mass produce Dymaxion Houses. A prototype was built outside of Wichita KS that I visited in the late 80's. By that time it no longer rotated because they had added on to the house. The reasons the program was dropped depends on who told the story - miss management, excessive costs, lack of demand, etc. Probably a bit of all the above. Buckminster Fuller consulted on another interesting project from that time; A hybrid car that used an aircooled aircraft engine to power four electric wheel mounted motors. Maximum power was provided by a combination of the motor and the battery. It had very limited range on the battery due to the poor battery technology at the time, but over all performance was good because of the light weight (alumn structure) and sizing the motor to provide average power instead of maximum power required.
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Buckminster Fuller designed the Dymaxion Houses in the late 1920's. One version was designed to be built on a rotating platform. The core which housed all the plumping etc. did not rotate. After WWII, (when the aircraft companies were looking for something to do after all the military contracts were canceled), there was a project to mass produce Dymaxion Houses. A prototype was built outside of Wichita KS that I visited in the late 80's. By that time it no longer rotated because they had added on to the house. The reasons the program was dropped depends on who told the story - miss management, excessive costs, lack of demand, etc. Probably a bit of all the above. Buckminster Fuller consulted on another interesting project from that time; A hybrid car that used an aircooled aircraft engine to power four electric wheel mounted motors. Maximum power was provided by a combination of the motor and the battery. It had very limited range on the battery due to the poor battery technology at the time, but over all performance was good because of the light weight (alumn structure) and sizing the motor to provide average power instead of maximum power required.
Thanks for sharing the info....always nice to add to the knowledge that we have :)