Dymaxion House

Introduction

The Dymaxion house was manufactured by Buckminster Fuller. It upgraded myriad construction techniques, which had a large pool of errors according to him. At different times, Fuller designed various different versions of this house. An important consideration in design was the ease of transport and assembly (Arnold, pp 45-50). The brand name Dymaxion was used by Fuller for many of his inventions. Dymaxion house got its initial success at the mass level, but it later failed.

Dymaxion House is like a flying saucer, and it has the facility to dismantle it. The user can take it along with him as the family moves. It was circular shape because Fuller circular buildings were considered economical. The house was 97-square-foot with furniture weighed no more than 2227 kilograms with a diameter of 15 meters, and a height of 12 meters. Fuller designed the prototype and launched it in 1927. This house was later identified as 4-D House and was known for Fuller's basic principle. It provided the greatest benefits of lower energy and lower material expenses. One of the criticisms of the design includes that the alleged vision of "one size fits all" for homes did not take into account of all local architectural styles.

Notion behind its Creation

Youngest daughter of Fuller died due to contact with infection in winter as they lived in a poor house during their stay in Chicago. Fuller's personal tragedy changed his priorities. The first and most successful design "Dymaxion" was for the Soviet Union to build temporary homes during the Second World War. It was based on the tools needed to build a sheet metal silo. They built and installed hundreds of units, but after the war ended, housing ministry decided that the dwellings were unsuitable for permanent use. The inhabitants of the silo-shaped houses said they were warm, easy to heat, bright, and insect proof. People preferred these houses superior to previously available habitats.

The silo house was the first system in which Fuller noticed the "dome effect." Many facilities have shown that a dome induces a vertical vortex that sucks heat. Fuller adapted the last units of the silo houses to take advantage of this effect.

The final design of the Dymaxion house used a stainless steel prop. These structures were similar to the spokes of a bicycle wheel hanging to hold the roof. The Fan-shaped wedge formed aluminum roof, ceiling, and floor. Each structure was assembled at ground level and rose using the strut for support (Borras, pp 100-110). The Dymaxion house was the first conscious effort to build a stand-alone building of the twentieth century.

It was designed for storm areas of the world: the oceanic islands and vast plains of North America, South America and, Eurasia. In many modern houses, laundry, showers and toilets are the points where more water is used, while the areas where less water is consumed includes drinking, cooking, and washing dishes. The Dymaxion house proposed to reduce water consumption by reusing a system of efficient clothes washing and grooming device called a fogger. The fogger employs very small particles of water dispersed by compressed air. It also allows a person to bath with very small ...