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Originally Posted by freebeard
It was built by my parents in 1980. I built the factory that produced the dome kit and laid out the design; they owner-self-built before and after my father retired.
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That sounds wonderful, I've always been a big fan of the Geodesic dome.
One of my clients had a dome on lake Michigan, tore it down and rebuilt a conventional but much larger home. He used a local architect, not me. I would have moved the dome to the roof.
I met Buckminster Fuller shortly before he died, he was in Lansing/East Lansing to give a lecture in the early 1980's at Michigan State, I sat in the front row. Earlier that week my program head suggested that I come into school to work (Lansing Community College) on my architecture projects and bring my 3-wheel car drawings. I did just that the day of the lecture, and sure enough some old guy looks over my shoulder while I'm drawing and comments on my design.
It was VW Beetle based, with a single front wheel - all very wedged shaped. Bucky commented that it was backwards, the single wheel should be in the back.............he didn't say much more but I was happy just to have him look at it.