{"id":12713,"date":"2019-07-29T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:30:55","slug":"dymaxion-houses-on-display-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milano411.com\/M411\/dymaxion-houses-on-display-in-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dymaxion Houses: On Display in Detroit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dymaxion: could homes be as affordable &amp; precise as appliances?\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SDicKcO6Xuk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">SUMMER OF SCI-FI: 2019! &#8211; www.MILANO411.com<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We love retro-futurism.\u00a0 This house was designed in the 1920s and a world that should have been. This design was $6500.00 to build in the 1920s. Today would be about the same, if a company did it ethically. We&#8217;ll see.\u00a0 A good revamp for a smart consumer. Ciao&#8230;.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ABOUT THIS HOUSE<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Supported by tension cables around a central mast, the Dymaxion House was a light-weight, prefab home designed to be flat-packed and shipped worldwide in a metal tube. Drawn up by Buckminster Fuller in the 1920s, he finally built the prototype in 1945 working with Beech Aircraft to take advantage of materials like aluminum and labor primed for WWII production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fuller coined the &#8220;Dymaxion&#8221; term by combining \u201cdy\u201d (dynamic), \u201cmax\u201d (maximum), and \u201cion\u201d(tension) and created both a home and car around the concept. Built of light-weight materials- aluminum and plexiglass-, the home weighed only 3000 pounds, but could withstand winds of 120 miles per hour and was earthquake and stormproof. It required no maintenance and could be heated and cooled by natural ventilation (a rotating vent on the roof circulated air through the home every 6 minutes).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fuller patented the \u201cDymaxion Bathroom\u201d &#8211; a shower that required only one cup of hot water, and a toilet that consumed no water at all. O-Volving Shelves required no bending; rotating closets brought the clothes to you. The floorplan and room sizes could be adjusted for parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The dismountable home was priced at $6,500 which was not much more than the median home price of $5,000 (50% of which came only with an outhouse). It was never mass produced, but the ideas behind it remain cutting-edge even today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUMMER OF SCI-FI: 2019! &#8211; www.MILANO411.com We love retro-futurism.\u00a0 This house was designed in the 1920s and a world that should have been. This design was $6500.00 to build in the 1920s. Today would be about the same, if a company did it ethically. We&#8217;ll see.\u00a0 A good revamp for a smart consumer. Ciao&#8230;. 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