What is GENESIS II?
[From Kirby Urner] Was chatting with Russ Chu the other night — he’s a long time BFI affiliate and good with hands-on artifact-making. Worked with Terry Gwilliam on tensegrity furniture and stuff … Anyway, I was asking him about the GENESIS II in the LA area. A dozen domes (looks like 1 doz. eggs?) sits by the freeway, sheltering the homeless. NPR (Natl Public Radio) did a spot the other evening. Russ says American Temporary Shelter, Inc. is behind those fiberglass domes, which appear to be about 5/8ths of an icosasphere — I don’t know what frequency. The cost, as I hear from NPR (Natl Public Radio) is about $6500 per unit. [From Brady Thompson] There was a short article on the project GENESIS II reprinted in the Toronto Star from a LA Times article. As I recall, the cost of the units was about $8,000 U.S. and the interior lining was ferro-concrete. [From Kirby Urner] Just got my most recent TrimTab from the Buckminster Fuller Institute today. It has some of the information I was l
