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This document discusses amplifying the tessellation and porosity of the geodesic dome to give it more character. The thesis aims to add depth and discontinuity to bring more monumentality to the typically continuous dome structure. While Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome design focused only on structural efficiency, this project seeks to make it more like historic domes that had greater surface effects and monumental qualities. It describes a 1,700 seat rock star arena situated in Los Angeles' Pershing Square that acts as both an urban speaker projecting sound outward and bringing noises from the city inside through added features like "ears".

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This document discusses amplifying the tessellation and porosity of the geodesic dome to give it more character. The thesis aims to add depth and discontinuity to bring more monumentality to the typically continuous dome structure. While Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome design focused only on structural efficiency, this project seeks to make it more like historic domes that had greater surface effects and monumental qualities. It describes a 1,700 seat rock star arena situated in Los Angeles' Pershing Square that acts as both an urban speaker projecting sound outward and bringing noises from the city inside through added features like "ears".

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This document discusses amplifying the tessellation and porosity of the geodesic dome to give it more character. The thesis aims to add depth and discontinuity to bring more monumentality to the typically continuous dome structure. While Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome design focused only on structural efficiency, this project seeks to make it more like historic domes that had greater surface effects and monumental qualities. It describes a 1,700 seat rock star arena situated in Los Angeles' Pershing Square that acts as both an urban speaker projecting sound outward and bringing noises from the city inside through added features like "ears".

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This document discusses amplifying the tessellation and porosity of the geodesic dome to give it more character. The thesis aims to add depth and discontinuity to bring more monumentality to the typically continuous dome structure. While Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome design focused only on structural efficiency, this project seeks to make it more like historic domes that had greater surface effects and monumental qualities. It describes a 1,700 seat rock star arena situated in Los Angeles' Pershing Square that acts as both an urban speaker projecting sound outward and bringing noises from the city inside through added features like "ears".

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By amplifying the tessellation and porosity if the geodesic dome I am
giving the geodesic dome a face lift.
This thesis looks to misconstrue the face of the geodesic dome, by
amplifying its unintentional, yet inherent esthetic, and monumental
qualities. I am proposing to bring depth and discontinuity to a typology
that has been about continuity and surface. A face with no ears, no eyes,
no nose is not a face. Similarly a building with no face is not architecture.
The dome has been the most celebrated forms in architecture since
its genesis, while the geodesic dome has been adored by Scientists and
structural engineers. Buckminster Fullers interests were only in
structural efficiency, not in monumentality or surface effects which
were the driving forces of historic domes such as the Pantheon.
This is a 1,700 seat rock star arena sits weightlessly in Los Angeless
Pershing Square, and acts both as an urban speaker screaming sound
outward through its ears, and brings in the noises from the city.

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