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Old 05-05-2016, 07:03 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Dymaxion Aeropod

Premise: This subforum needs more traffic. This is my contribution, filched from inverse.com.

Upcycled Airplane Fuselages Are a Shockingly Sustainable Update on the Pool House



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Forget Geodesic Domes, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House Was His Masterpiece

The writing's pretty bad on this one. It claims the DDU had a central mast!!?! Then it says:
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With the war coming to an end, the U.S. was facing a serious housing crisis. Fuller was commissioned to design permanent, single-family dwellings.
So wrong... Fuller never waited for permission from anyone. He only went where he was invited.

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