From: The Butterfly (salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com)
Date: 04/21/98
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:07:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199804220007.RAA04468@bootstrap.sculptors.com> From: The Butterfly <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Re: Been kinda quiet, lately...
-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:13:01 -0700 (PDT)
-From: joshua geller <dclxvi_at_best.com>
-Reply-To: airships_at_sculptors.com
-
-The Butterfly writes:
-
- > OK, enough materials properties lecture. It's just that, after a
- > decade of studying the "more with less" principles of Design Science, it
- > really irks me to see people equate "strong" with "reinforced concrete."
- > :-)
-
-there's something else that reinforced concrete is, besides being
-reasonably strong. two more things, actually.
What two things?
-> :-)
- ^^^|
- -why do you use this stupid thing?
Ummm... because I'm smiling when I type certain things? Don't tell
me you've never seen smileys before?
- > If you generalize the principle, you know you'll
- > need gas bladders and rigid frames and outer skins that are UV-tolerant. Up
- > until the actual time of construction, though, the moment when you decide
- > to cast the design in matter, not digital models or strategic planning like
- > we're now doing, you probably want to avoid committing to one specific
- > material, since something new will come along.
-
-these are also good words, pat. what have you built?
-
-best,
-josh
Not airships. I'm relatively new to this area. But I've designed
housing systems, hydroponic systems, and am about to start work on a
geodesic greenhouse here at the new house.
A lot of the things I work on are still in the design stage, due to
the lack-of-millions-of-dollars that seems to afflict most of us. So I tend
to keep things generalized to the basic design principles, and when the
time comes to build something, I used the materials available at that time.
--
Pat
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