Fly's Eye Dome
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The Fly's Eye Dome was a structure designed in 1965 by R. Buckminster Fuller. Fuller designed the dome as his idea of the affordable, portable home of the future, with windows and openings in the dome to hold solar panels and systems for water collection, thus allowing the dome to be self sufficient.[1] He built three prototypes of the design by hand up to his passing away in 1983, in three sizes:
- 12 foot - Currently owned by Norman Foster
- 24 foot - Currently owned by Craig Robins
- 50 foot - Currently residing in Toulouse, France
[2] A new version of the Fly's Eye Dome standing at 24 feet was built in 2014 in Miami under guidance from The Buckminster Fuller Institute.[3]
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- New Fly's Eye Dome unveiled in Miami 2014
- photo of 24 Foot Fly's Eye Dome
- Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome installed in Miami Design District 2014
- 50 Foot Fly's Eye Dome in Touluouse
- The Fly's Eye Dome
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