Capetanios Oz wrote:


Is that open framework around a spce or are you referring to an open
framework within the space.

I got the impression space is all around everything... when you fold up a tent and
carry it someplace else & set it up, is the space inside the tent the same space,
or is it a different sapce newly enclosed?

Anyway, to get back to the question, some geodesic domes are open framework with no
enclosure at all. Some are framework inside an enclosure, some outside it. One
possibility is to build a geodesic enclosure with flat triangular panels, with no
beams or struts or framework at all.... there's a local boatbuilder who was turning
out these from fiberglass for a while back in the 1970s. So are all these things
'geodesic' structures? Apparently not, if you believe in Navvie©'s very very strict
doctrine about what 'geodesic' is.


http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/news/v...1/95winp07.htm

Here is an interesting set of ideas, with pictures this time.

http://www.edenproject.com/3440_3459.htm

Here is one on Buckminster Fuller, just from the opening page you can see how many
interesting & exotic ideas he developed. The engineering profs I studied under all
sneered at Bucky Fuller as a crackpot, but it's always seemed to me that he had so
many good ideas he never had a chance to really go all the way with most of them.

http://www.buckminster.info/index.html

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