concept habitat

[Ian Beardsley]

I consider this anthropology as the curved family habitats are nomadic and the regular tessellation family is European, while we can only imagine the so-called archimedean family as what atlantis would have been like had it existed. To see what I am talking about, go to:
http://community-2.webtv.net/ianbeardsley/ConceptHabitat/

[Dingfod]

How about a truncated icosahedron instead.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:BKTNExTZcD0J:home.connexus.net.au/~robandfi/JPeg/TruncIcos.jpg

Those would minimize of those wastes of interior space known as corners, and use the absolute minimum of building materials. Plus they could be connected and stacked into all sorts of arrangements from a tower to a pyramid, like a bunch soccer balls glued together.

[Ian Beardsley]

How about a truncated icosahedron instead.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:BKTNExTZcD0J:home.connexus.net.au/~robandfi/JPeg/TruncIcos.jpg

Those would minimize of those wastes of interior space known as corners, and use the absolute minimum of building materials. Plus they could be connected and stacked into all sorts of arrangements from a tower to a pyramid, like a bunch soccer balls glued together.

That would be awesome. Any of the truncated archimedean solids for that matter. The reason I choose cylinders, though, over hemispheres - or their approximations, or inscribes, however I should call them... not sure, is that they maximize area horizontally, which works well for a bi-pedal who cannot float in space, and you can build them as high as you like. Architecture is divine.
--Ian
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