RDS
SnowFlake Configuration |
Deploying
the Entire System |
| The
deployment of the RDS with Armature
to Davos 05 constituted a technical breakthrough
for MG Taylor/AI. Although not a flawless
experience, it demonstrated the growing capability
of the design team and the shop to engineer and manufacture
a complex system. |
| Now,
we are ready for the next level of recursion: the
entire shell of the RDS. The hexipent
dome configuration is the most likely candidate for
this structure. I designed the SnowFlake configuration
in 1976 as an exercise for the Renascence Project
in Kansas City [link].
To date it has not been realized. It is a simple
to build structure and provides a
varied
and
flexible
space
that is
perfect for an RDS. It also can be utilized for a
variety of living/working spaces. This means that
RDS deployments are not only possible
for events but
also for setting up short term “office” deployments
[link].
This may be the resolution for the need of a MG Taylor
regional office compound in the Nashville area A
three dome 18 POD version will be about 6,000 square
feet and can be built by us for about $400,000 [link].
One dome can be +/- 50 person group process area,
one for office and studio areas and one living. The
PODS
can be
kitchens, bathrooms,
personal work and sleeping areas, archives, guest
facilities, technology and storage. Much of the
next generation NavCenter and postUsonian
grammar can be expressed inside this shell. Most
of the work can be done by the shop and architectural
team. The landscaping can explore earth berming,
greenhouse and permaculture concepts. |
| Achieving
this not only prototypes an RDS that
can be shipped and set up anywhere independent of
infrastructure,
it brings us to the capability of building EcoSphere
and UsonianOne. Thus, we will be well down the road
to Domicile and Xanadu scale projects which, in turn,
will take us to the threshold of megacity scale projects.
This
“bootstrap” process has been an integral
aspect of our strategy from the beginning [link].
Our failure, to date, is that we have put millions
into renting traditional spaces, and doing what we
can with them, rather than building our own ideas
(no matter how modest such as Snowflake) which
deveop our own design-build capibility, provide
us with better facilities and demonstrates our work
more fully. |
| As
the compound can be thought of as semi-permanent,
it allows us to learn, in stages, the techniques
necessary to make a fully transportable Snowflake
RDS shell system. |
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Matt
Taylor
Washington DC
February 17, 2005
SolutionBox
voice of this document:
INSIGHT • STRATEGY • CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENT
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posted:
February 17, 2005
revised:
March 8, 2005
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this document is about 15% finished)
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