Fly's Eye Dome

The Fly's Eye Dome was a structure designed in 1965 by R. Buckminster Fuller. Inspired by the eye of a fly, 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] Before his death in 1983, he hand-built three prototypes of the design:

• A 3.8-meter (12 ft) prototype is currently owned by Norman Foster.
• A 7-meter (24 ft)prototype is currently owned by Craig Robins.[2]
• A 15-meter (50 ft) prototype acquired by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and installed in 2017.[3][4]

A new version of the Fly's Eye Dome standing at 7 meters was built in 2014 in Miami under guidance from The Buckminster Fuller Institute.[5]

References

1. "Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome installed in Miami". Dezeen. 2 December 2014. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
2. "The Fly's Eye Dome". OpenBuildings. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
3. "Arkansas museum acquires "giant Wiffle ball" style glass dome". Arkansas Online. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
4. Churchwell, Marta. "Marta Churchwell: Dome a highlight of sculptures at Crystal Bridges". Joplin Globe. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
5. "Dymaxion Forum | The Buckminster Fuller Institute". bfi.org. Retrieved 2015-12-03.

External links

• New Fly's Eye Dome unveiled in Miami2014 Archived 2015-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
• photo of 24 Foot Fly's Eye Dome
• Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome installed in Miami Design District 2014, and video
• 50 Foot Fly's Eye Dome in Toulouse
• The Fly's Eye Dome Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
• The Fly's Eye Dome at Crystal Bridges
• Fuller's Fly eye dome v1 by commons_factory