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Wow you took a completely different conclusion than me.
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Well, I cherry-picked that conclusion. I feel badly for the way Kanye West was treated.
I should have started a new paragraph. My larger point was the psychological benefit. There were years I sat in a flat-ceiling kitchen all Winter looking at a 60W incandescent light bulb hanging on a cord. I think it drove me a little mad.
It's easy for some people to not percieve or ignore.
They were used in churches for a reason.
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Domes are a great shape for a small simple one room structure. When you try to subdivide one into rooms to make a real house it all falls apart
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The legendary Red Rockers were the edge case.
Oregon Dome failed IMHO because they put a conventional zoned floorplan with hallways under their dome shells. All partitions should be radial.
Additions to or added domes are one solution. I shall start a thread [eventually] in Saving@Home to show five domes around a central artium and a square porch around an edge vertex icosa hemisphere. Maybe....
One thing I notice is young folk promoting Solarpunk. It's a thin coating of diversity, equity and inclusion over a ball of total ignorance of their predecessors; Fuller, Solari, etc.
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I can't find this excerpted; but here is a pull quote from Black Elk Speaks :
wearethemutants.com/2019/12/12/spacy-spheres-and-funky-shacks-the-otherworlds-of-1971s-domebook-2/domebook-2-1971-black-elk/
It describes the difference between the circle of life (the Sign of the Donut) and a box.