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Wichita House:
"Geodesic domes derive from converting the Wichita House mast to a sphere. This was the origin of the geodesic dome strategy. I decided to commit myself to shells, making a sphere of the Wichita House mast. The great circles of the vector equilibrium are like the first picture of an atom–the squares are a little more open. The 31 great circles of the icosahedron resolve everything that goes into triangulation.
"Geodesic diamonds: there is always an even number of triangles on a sphere so they may be treated in pairs as diamonds, always made with straight lines but the lines are different in length. The fats and thins have equal length.
"Bernouilli Principle: pulling the air through a small hole makes it cold. The Butler grain bin was the first air conditioning dynamic structure.
“The Wichita House parts were stamped out of aircraft forms in a stretch-press, in hollowed out wooden forms of half sections. Two fists could pull the metal down over the” form. We used the aircraft industry tools."
