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. Before his death in 1983, he hand-built three prototypes of the design:
* A 12-foot prototype is currently owned by
Norman Foster
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Nor ...
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* A 24-foot prototype is currently owned by
Craig Robins
Craig Lewis Robins (born February 15, 1963) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Dacra Development, the co-founder and co-owner of Design Miami and developer of the Miami Design District.
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* A 50-foot prototype acquired by
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie, officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission.
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Bentonville, Arkansas
Bentonville is the tenth-largest city in Arkansas, United States and the county seat of Benton County. The city is centrally located in the county with Rogers adjacent to the east. The city is the birthplace of and world headquarters locatio ...
and installed in 2017.
A new version of the Fly's Eye Dome standing at 24 feet was built in 2014 in Miami under guidance from
The Buckminster Fuller Institute.
References
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New Fly's Eye Dome unveiled in Miami2014
photo of 24 Foot Fly's Eye DomeBuckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome installed in Miami Design District2014
50 Foot Fly's Eye Dome in ToulouseThe Fly's Eye DomeThe Fly's Eye Dome at Crystal BridgesFuller's Fly_eye dome v1 by commons_factory
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Collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art