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ROXY is a dome for your home!
Italian designer and architect Giulio Neri is producing a simple spherical lamp based on the plywood domes construction method. The lamp can be purchased as a kit for self assembly or ready made. It can be recycled and uses low consumption bulbs.

This piece of furniture shows how simple geodesic structures can be. It's intention is to bring geodesic structures at home, to delight us with their beauty, in useful furniture elements.

Meet ROXY @
www.giulioneri.com/design/roxy.html

Project "House-sphere ARK" Description.

Using the principles of design for DNA helix homes. Priority Patent-1990 "Folding structure-frame netted a shell of rotation".

"House-sphere ARK" is a unique educational environment for students and refugees as a result of natural disasters. The manufacture of netted shell, can minimize expense the energy and material costs. Diameter house - 3-9 metres. House-quick-assembly - composed of folding steel mesh, three-layer netted insulation, cement, sheet metal, plywood, fabric, polycarbonate windows.

Target groups: children, schoolchildren, nomads, students,
refugees as a result of natural disasters. The draft provides detailed instruction for all who will be able to build a house on low prices with a maximum conservation the atmosphere and energy.

The novelty of the project-use of local materials; bags of moss, fabric, warm air veneer sheets, steel wire. Spiral DNA technology- minus welding and less drilling, without waste. Portable Folding netted a shell, elements spirals
how genes 3000-4300 mm. length (XY chromosomes), node-bolt (Nucleotide). Manufacturing shell elements netted in a special machine-similar to the ribosome living cells. For residents in the building- mobile phone and the Internet. It is necessary to synthesis of knowledge about genetics, mechanics and architecture to create fantastic architectural diversity and sustainable development. Made mini "House-sphere ARK" (puppet theatre) for children with limited abilities. Stability of the future - is to use the structure of DNA. I believe that
New technology will help solve the problems of housing and creation a stable civil society.

Snowflakes are designs, crystals are designs, music is design, and the electromagnetic spectrum of which the rainbow colors are but one millionth of its range is design; planets, stars, galaxies, and their contained behaviors such as the periodic regularities of the chemical elements are all design accomplishments. If a DNA-RNA genetic code programs the design of roses, elephants, and bees, we will have to ask what intellect designed the DNA-RNA code as well as the atoms and molecules that implement the coded programs.
-R. Buckminster Fuller

Technology spiral DNA suitable for design airship and submarine, space houses and hothouses. Thousands of people are realizing that fundamental change is within reach. Measuring up to the target issues for sustainable construction. Quantum changes and replication. "House-sphere ARK"- invention is based on the spiral of DNA and topology XY genes. Steel wire springs shell- structure(frame) similar to DNA and proteins. XY elements of a steel wire and sheet steel are linked fastening bolts.

For transportation home Biosphere-used compact containers-2200-2260-4550 mm. The prototype structure of the "House-sphere ARK" patent-Shukhov V.G. Experiments in a magnetic field with a cages Faraday and Tesla, provides the optimum size of the cell to form the structure of the envelope.
Ethical standards and social justice. This project contributes to the creation of new jobs and the transfer of skills across the local population, thus increase community capacity for decision-making to improve the quality of life. "House-sphere ARK", which can be constructed, operated, and maintained
community with minimal external support technical activities.
Everyone will be able to build his house. Environmental quality and energy conservation.

I plan to build a "House-sphere ARK" on a bog. I developed a biotoilet and electrical generator for autonomous houses.
Synthesis of sustainable livelihoods DNA technology high-hume in the region promises to significantly increase the viability of local culture and environment. The project is important to promote the transfer and awareness-raising available natural and renewable energy sources. Economic performance and compatibility.

"House-sphere ARK"- two floors -55+27 m2., with the exterior surface of -254 m2.- $ 100 000.
The envelope can be manufactured at the plant or in the workshop. Contextual and aesthetic impact; The house is able to adapt to changes in temperature and humidity. Efforts to integrate with the environment leads to aesthetically accurate
contextual response, the architectural expression of energy-saving technologies high-hume.

So, we can not cover all of our planet a great American city.
One look at the planet, to convince you of this.
When flooding Biosphere - float.

2000 sq ft 38 ft diameter dome home for sale in Emerald Hills, CA -- Bucky made it energy efficient.
3 bedrooms and 2 baths on a third of an acre in Silicon Valley midway between San Francisco and San Jose.
Two-car garage in large basement with wine room.
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There may be a trend beginning in cities around the US and in Europe. People living on the fringes of traditional shelter as well as some governments are considering new ways to solve the problem of day to day existance for people who are virtually without resources, especially people without land. Here is an article that pretty well sums up the current models for this new kind of living situation. I am talking about portable villages.

I will archive recent developements in ultra-low-cost survival options in well-to-do areas here. This thread is about the coexistance of the rich and the poor. I encourage you to share your experiences and knowledge of shelter-for-everyone.

The model that works well right here at home may be close to the one that could work in disasters areas and for refugees around the globe.

http://gainesville.com/article/2007705280328

This is interesting, too.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2000/wampler.html

Hey everyone!

I am new to this site but thought I would post a project that I have been working on. It is a geodesic dome made out of electrical conduit. It is seven feet tall and can support a tremendous amount of weight. I made it by cutting the pipe to the required size, smashing the ends down and then drilling a hole in them. They were then bolted together.

Please let me know what you think + give comments + ask questions.

Thankyou!

~Harry