Geodesic Domes in Built Environments

Abstract

Fuller’s idea of structural systems was based on a separate philosophy, distant from the materialistic and positivist thinking of today’s university world. His key concept was the syntropy, hardly noticeable merging force, opposing the diffusing entropy. To see it, one have to cross the boundaries between different scientific disciplines, including physics and biology. Future tensegrity solutions may be borrowed from the organic world and may use materials not known to us yet. One can also see a new application of solutions already known today: designers will understand, that, for example, pneumatics are dynamic high-frequency tensegrity geodesic configurations. We still have not drawn practical conclusions from Fuller’s considerations on ecology: “All the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity. Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous—tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming” [1].