 Dymaxion House as installed in Henry Ford Museum The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor Buckminster Fuller to address several failures he perceived with existing homebuilding techniques. Fuller designed several different versions of the house at different times, but they were factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use resources efficiently. One important design consideration was ease of shipment and assembly. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1627x1159, 186 KB)Dymaxion House as installed at the Henry Ford Museum I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1627x1159, 186 KB)Dymaxion House as installed at the Henry Ford Museum I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
A Ford Model T, used for giving tourist rides, is shown above at Greenfield Village. ...
Richard Buckminster “Bucky†Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)[1] was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. ...
The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Fuller used for several of his inventions. The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Buckminster Fuller used for several of his inventions. ...
History
Buckminster Fuller began to investigate "Dymaxion" in 1927. He wanted to mass produce a bathroom and a house. His first "dymaxion" design was based on the design of a grain bin. During World War II, the U.S. Army comissioned Fuller to send these housing units to the Persian Gulf. [1]
The Siberian grain-silo house was the first system in which Fuller noted the "dome effect." Many installations have reported that a dome induces a local vertical heat-driven vortex that sucks cooler air downward into a dome if the dome is vented properly (a single overhead vent, and peripheral vents). Fuller adapted the later units of the grain-silo house to use this effect. This article is about Siberia as a whole. ...
The final design of the Dymaxion house used a central vertical stainless-steel strut on a single foundation. Structures similar to the spokes of a bicycle-wheel hung down from this supporting the roof, whilst beams radiating out supported the floor. Wedge-shaped fans of sheet metal aluminum formed the roof, ceiling and floor. Each structure was assembled at ground level and then winched up the strut. The Dymaxion house was the first conscious effort at an autonomous building in the twentieth century. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Off-the-grid. ...
It was a prototype that proposed to use a packaging toilet, water storage and a convection-driven ventillator built into the roof. It was designed for the stormy areas of the world: temperate oceanic islands, and the Great Plains of North America, South America and Eurasia. In most modern houses, laundry, showers and commodes are the major water uses, with drinking, cooking and dish-washing consuming less than twenty liters per day. The Dymaxion house proposed to reduce water use by a gray water system, a packaging commode, efficient horizontally agitated laundry equipment, and a unique personal cleanser called a fogger. The fogger would use very fine particles of water dispersed by compressed air. It would permit one to bathe with only a cup or so of water. Fuller is reported to have said that it worked on the same principle as commercial degreasers, but with much smaller water particles to make it comfortable. North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...
South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
For other uses, see Eurasia (disambiguation). ...
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The real Dymaxion house Two Dymaxion houses were prototyped - one indoor (the "Barwise" house) and one outdoor (the "Danbury" house). No Dymaxion house built according to Fuller's intentions was ever constructed and lived in. The only two prototypes of the round, aluminum house were purchased by investor William Graham as well as assorted unused prototyping elements as salvage after the venture failed. In 1948, Graham constructed a hybridized version of the Dymaxion House as his family's home; the Grahams lived there into the 1970s. Graham built the round house on his lakefront property, disabling the ventillator and other interior features. It was inhabited for about thirty years, although as an extension to an existing ranch house, rather than standing alone as intended by Fuller. This house as well as all the component prototyping parts were donated to The Henry Ford Museum in 1991, by the Graham family. A painstaking process was used to conserve as many original component parts and systems as possible and restore the rest using original documentation from the Fuller prototyping process. It was installed indoors in the Henry Ford Museum in 2001 with a full exhibit. In metaphysics, extension is the property of taking up space; see Extension (metaphysics). ...
A Ford Model T, used for giving tourist rides, is shown above at Greenfield Village. ...
 Interior of Dymaxion House showing structural details. Visible are the partially assembled aluminum ceiling, struts and exterior skin as well as single central post which supports the entire structure and carries utilities and plumbing. Since there was no evidence of the crucial internal rain-gutter system, some elements of the rain collecting system were omitted from the restored exhibit. The roof was designed to wick water inside and drip into the rain-gutter and then to the cistern, rather than have a difficult-to-fit, perfectly waterproof roof. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (500x674, 31 KB)Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion House showing structural details. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (500x674, 31 KB)Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion House showing structural details. ...
During the prototyping process the idea for the packaging toilet was immediately replaced by a conventional septic system because the packaging plastic was not available. Other features worked as advertised, notably the heating, and the passive air conditioning system, based on the "dome effect."
The inhabitants of the heavily modified version of the house, which they actually lived in, said that the bathroom was a particular delight. The children loved it for water fights because "it was absolutely indestructible as far as water was concerned." The bathroom consisted of two connected stamped copper bubbles, built as four nesting pieces. The bottom piece is fully plated in tin/antimony alloy and the top half painted. Each bubble had a drain. No area had a radius of less than four inches (10 cm) to aid cleaning. The commode, shower, bathtub and sink were molded into the structural shell in one piece. One bubble contained a step-up ergonomic bathtub and shower, high enough to wash children without stooping, but just two steps (16 inches / 40 cm) up. The oval tub had the controls mounted on the inside left of the entrance to the oval tub. The other bubble was the bathroom proper with commode and sink. The ventilation for the bathroom was a large silent fan under the main sink, which kept odors away from people's noses. All lighting was totally enclosed. To prevent fogging, the mirror faced into the medicine chest, which was ventilated by the fan. A plastic version of the bathroom was available intermittently up until the 1980s. A typical American bathroom A bathroom is a room that may have different functions depending on the cultural context. ...
A Commode is a piece of furniture (typically a chair) with a built in chamber pot. ...
A mirror, reflecting a vase. ...
The large wrap-around windows and lightweight structures were very popular with the children, who crawled on the windowsill, and twanged the bicycle-wheel-style main struts.
Criticism Criticisms of the Dymaxion Houses include its supposed "one-size-fits-all" cookie-cutter approach to housing which completely disregarded local site and architectural idiom, and its use of energy-intensive materials such as aluminum http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/aluminum/, rather than low-energy materials such as adobe or tile. Fuller chose aluminum for its light weight, high strength, and long-term durability, arguably factors that compensate for the initial production cost. Aluminum was also a logical choice if the homes were to be built in aircraft factories, which, since WWII had ended, had substantial excess capacity. The Wichita House was a project Fuller took during WWII in trying to produce cost-effective dwelling for everyone. The project continued to develop the technological background of the concept behind the Dymaxion House (now incorporating a round floor plan instead of a hexagonal one. The reactions to the prototype were extraordinarily positive; nevertheless it was not put into industrial production.http://users.design.ucla.edu/~djvmc/24/bucky/house.html Aluminum is a soft and lightweight metal with a dull silvery appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air. ...
Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ...
See also It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Off-the-grid. ...
The Lustron house was developed in the post-World War II era in response to the shortage of houses for returning GIs. ...
Dymaxion 3 The Dymaxion car was a concept car built in 1933 and designed by Buckminster Fuller. ...
Unfolded Dymaxion map with nearly-contiguous land masses. ...
Spaceship Earth in Epcot Center at Walt Disney World is perhaps one of the most famous examples of a large scale geodesic sphere. ...
Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes, are dwellings manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled. ...
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