a. Description
R. BUCKMINSTER
FULLER
(1977):
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The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller:
The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller:
a Comprehensive Collection of his
a Comprehensive Collection of his
Designs and Drawings,
Designs and Drawings,
James Ward, Ed.,
James Ward, Ed.,
Garland, New York,
Garland, New York,
(1984)
(1984)
Pine-Cone Dome*
This dome produces an oriented, corrugated interior space.
Its envelope is composed of irregular facets whose degree of discontinuity is regular from top to bottom.
The scale and degree of repetition in the relationship between the part to its whole is also regular.