spaceship WinSol - bucky
In Bucky Fuller's book 'Operating Manual Spaceship Earth' he talks about...
' Predict(ing) that soon the great office buildings will be turned into residences and that all the work that had been done in them will be done in the basements of a few buildings. States that we "must operate exclusively on our vast daily energy income from the powers of wind, tide, water, and the direct Sun radiation energy". '
This was published in 1969 - way before climate change and ecology became a thing. The timing was in tune with the rising environmental wokeness along with Stewart Brand's 'Whole Earth' and Donna Meadows' 'Limits to Growth'. And now as the COVID pandemic end is in sight and remote working is more commonplace, perhaps all those office buildings will be converted to homeless shelters? ....one can dream!
Bucky Fuller was one of my mentors. But Bucky is a difficult read. He was quite introspective and had a peculiar way of lining things up. One has to really read between the lines to gather his brilliance and forethought.
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I sometimes think of WinSol3 as a spaceship. Its founding principles echo Bucky's ethos of a closed system. WinSol3 is my 3rd
experience at building a Dymaxion type house. Again, this was based on Bucky Fuller's original designs. From the B. Fuller Institute:
' Predict(ing) that soon the great office buildings will be turned into residences and that all the work that had been done in them will be done in the basements of a few buildings. States that we "must operate exclusively on our vast daily energy income from the powers of wind, tide, water, and the direct Sun radiation energy". '
This was published in 1969 - way before climate change and ecology became a thing. The timing was in tune with the rising environmental wokeness along with Stewart Brand's 'Whole Earth' and Donna Meadows' 'Limits to Growth'. And now as the COVID pandemic end is in sight and remote working is more commonplace, perhaps all those office buildings will be converted to homeless shelters? ....one can dream!
Bucky Fuller was one of my mentors. But Bucky is a difficult read. He was quite introspective and had a peculiar way of lining things up. One has to really read between the lines to gather his brilliance and forethought.
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I sometimes think of WinSol3 as a spaceship. Its founding principles echo Bucky's ethos of a closed system. WinSol3 is my 3rdexperience at building a Dymaxion type house. Again, this was based on Bucky Fuller's original designs. From the B. Fuller Institute:
' Conceived and designed in the late 1920's but not actually built until 1945, the Dymaxion House was Fuller's solution to the need for a mass-produced, affordable, easily transportable and environmentally efficient house. The word "Dymaxion" was coined by combining parts of three of Bucky's favorite words: DY (dynamic), MAX (maximum), and ION (tension). The house used tension suspension from a central column or mast, sold for the price of a Cadillac, and could be shipped worldwide in its own metal tube. Toward the end of WW II, Fuller attempted to create a new industry for mass-producing Dymaxion Houses.
As long as there's rainfall, Winsol will prosper - indefintely! There are two time capsules inside the 12ton Trombe (fireplace) wall that'll easily continue standing well beyond 2100.
Bucky designed a home that was heated and cooled by natural means, that made its own power, was earthquake and storm-proof, and made of permanent, engineered materials that required no periodic painting, reroofing, or other maintenance. You could easily change the floor plan as required - squeezing the bedrooms to make the living room bigger for a party, for instance.'
As long as there's rainfall, Winsol will prosper - indefintely! There are two time capsules inside the 12ton Trombe (fireplace) wall that'll easily continue standing well beyond 2100.
The rest of WinSol will require some oversight and maintenance (see blog on operations). WinSol's systems are designed to operate in a closed loop fashion.
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