In the materials I've read on Bucky and his work, I don't recall any sort of
home-on-wheels type of mobil home. Deb is right about the Dymaxion, though.
The house was a tension structure which hung on a central mast, designed to
be packed up into a giant tube and shipped to your site. If you decided to
move, you could disassemble, re-package it, and move it to the new location.
So, in that sense, yes it was mobile, but not in the on-the-road-again sort
of way.
There were also a few different kinds of structures that were meant to be
portable, some of which were designed for military use and are still used
today (ex. - Dymaxion Deployment Unit). These include a structure based
upon the design of grain silos and others based on his work with domes.
- Johnette
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From: deb bledsoe <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Jeurassic trailers
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:31:56 -0500
pirate <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> lastly Buckminster Fuller trailer home which I never saw but I saw
drawings
> and meybe a photo but Im not sure as I t was ....the 60's ......anyone
know
> Fullers Mobile..Home...was it ever built????
the dymaxion was not a trailer... that's the one for which he's most
noted...
as best as I can determine, fuller designed a portable home for republic
aircraft
in wichita, kansas... circa 1947
but it was more a component house, meant to be transported
in pieces to the homesite, and assembled -- it was a stressed-skin aluminum
panel design that was way high-tech, and pretty expensive...
only two were built... and they can't really be called trailers
as they were in the same class as the lustron, apparently
but earlier, in the late 30's, an engineer named william stout (ford
trimotor
plane, scarab car, union pacific m-1000 streamlined power unit) designed the
stout portable house, and it was a trailer measuring about 8' wide by 18'
long
by 6'6" high, that folded out into a cottage measuring 24' by 18' and could
be set up in 20 minutes onsite, by relatively unskilled persons...
and easily folded up and moved on its own integral chassis....
this is the design that was used by the gov during the Big War, as my dad
called
it...
and for a lot of construction housing out west for the big dam projects....
and stout was heavily influenced by bucky fuller's and le corbusier's
writings
and concepts about affordable housing and technology
but most of that was just writings and drawings, not actual units...
if I find out anything else, I'll let you know.... one of the architecture
profs
at miami is a fuller nut ;)
next time I see him I'll ask if he knows anything else about fuller's houses
;)
deb
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