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\Bucky Fuller.01\.Dymaxion Deployment Unit (1940)<br />
Developed For The British In The 1960’S And Later Used By Americans For Various Purposes As Base Structures<br />
In The South Pacific. Many Have Since Used The Reminisce Of The Units And Convert/ Update Them As Homes.<br />
The Dymaxion Deployment unit was part of<br />
a larger idea/ program <strong>Richard</strong> Buckminster<br />
Fuller had been developing since 1927. It<br />
was summer when driving through country<br />
side that he noticed 100s of identical grainstorage<br />
bins on farms. All produced by butler<br />
manufacturing company of Kansas city.<br />
The grain-storage bins were very popular<br />
because of their superior design and quality.<br />
Fuller realized he could easily adapt these<br />
as shells for small pre-fabricated housing.<br />
He estimated that with mass production that<br />
the unit could be produced for as little as $1<br />
a sqft.<br />
During the development while under<br />
construction the owner of butler walked<br />
into one of the units while it was lifted in<br />
the air found that the unit was actually quit<br />
cool even though its made of steel and<br />
the outdoor temperature was near 90. It<br />
took bucky and his engineers to realize<br />
what was causing the phenomenon. This<br />
air conditioning was the result of a larger<br />
opening on the underside and a smaller<br />
opening atop that caused the hot air<br />
within the unit to rush from the bottom to<br />
the top as it its temperature rose.<br />
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