BERLINER COMPENDIUM 10

Basics
Geos
These structures are ideal for climbing on the inside or outside.
The Geos offer enough space on the inside to play soccer or as
a safe play area with plenty of room for hammocks or ladders.
The pure carbon molecule C60 consists of 12, 5 and 20 hexagonal
carbon rings with a total of 60 atoms – one at each corner:
the shape of a soccer ball. Geos are constructed according
to the same principle. The Geos can be varied in diameter by
changing the tube lengths. Three types are available for different
dome sizes.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) studied Platonic and Archime
dean solids and designed on the basis of the icosahedron
the first globular spatial structure.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983) completed the research
which Leonardo had begun: With his version of the structure,
similar to a C60-molecule, emerged the form which we all know
today as a football. This buckyball shows twelve black pentagonal
faces, which are surrounded by 20 white hexagonal faces.
In our product group Geos, da Vinci’s and Fuller’s sophisticated
accidence is realized congenitally – and playfully.
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