Old Man River City Prototype (stadium shaped)
- Brainstorming on Buckyworks (essay, June 1996)
- JavaDome Proposal for OMSI (Aug 11, 1996)
- Location Scouting (January 2006)
- Pillowdome
- The Eden Project (Cornwall, UK)
- The Project Renaissance Approach to Public-Private Enterprising (June 4, 1997)
Brainstorming on Buckyworks: The Anthology
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Esthetics of Architecture
- Chapter 2 Designing from the Inside Out
- Chapter 3 A Dome in the Desert (a report from the field)
- Chapter 4 Towards the Solar-Hydrogen Village
- Chapter 5 Home Schooling in the Global Classroom
- Chapter 6 Of Comfort Zones and Fuzzy Logic
- Chapter 7 Untitled
- Chapter 8 The User Interface [draft copy available for peer review]
- Chapter 9 Globally Positioning your Home Sweet Home
- Appendix (downloadable resources, web links and contacts)
This was a book proposal I put out after J. Baldwin’s BuckyWorks was successfully published by John Wiley & Sons. Applewhite was skeptical that it’d fly as an anthology. He was right.
Garden of Eden Prototypes
Since Tefzel® allows full-spectrum sunlight to penetrate the dome’s interior, living and gardening areas may be creatively integrated.
Excessive humidity and overheating within these “Garden of Eden” prototypes remains a challenge however — Jay points to the Climatron in the Missouri Botanical Garden as a good approximation of what he’d like to achieve as an affordable living space option — but affordability would entail greater energy efficiency. He speculates that the “chilling machine” effect, a result of airflow patterns arising in some dome designs, might help keep the interior comfortable (e.g. see Fig 8-8, page 160).
For more info on the PillowDome, see:
- Bob Gray’s P.D. Structures page.
- Living Machines (Wikipedia)
Online reviews of J. Baldwin’s BuckyWorks:
Since Tefzel® allows full-spectrum sunlight to penetrate the dome’s interior, living and gardening areas may be creatively integrated.
Excessive humidity and overheating within these “Garden of Eden” prototypes remains a challenge however — Jay points to the Climatron in the Missouri Botanical Garden as a good approximation of what he’d like to achieve as an affordable living space option — but affordability would entail greater energy efficiency. He speculates that the “chilling machine” effect, a result of airflow patterns arising in some dome designs, might help keep the interior comfortable (e.g. see Fig 8-8, page 160).
For more info on the PillowDome, see:
- Bob Gray’s P.D. Structures page.
- Living Machines (Wikipedia)
Online reviews of J. Baldwin’s BuckyWorks:
