Buckminster

Buckminster Fuller

Complex of Jitterbugs

The translation of abstract mathematical concept is both an engineering feat and aesthetic triumph.

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Cloud Nine Project

Buckminster Fuller proposes the "Cloud Nine" project, a levitating city of tensegrity spheres, each a mile in diameter. Because the surface-to-volume ratio of such spheres would be vanishingly small, Fuller calculated that if trapped solar energy raised their internal temperature by a mere one degree, they would be able to float like balloons.