Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was a multifaceted American thinker, who extended his activity to areas as diverse as Architecture, Design, Systems Theory and Environmentalism.
He was one of the first to research and publicly proclaim our planet’s resource scarcity, coining the expression “Spaceship Earth”.
A fundamental principle that presided over his work was always “doing more with less”. From pre-fabricated houses to revolutionary automobiles, many were the domains to which Fuller applied his genius and his curiosity.

Rising above the many fruits of that principle is the Geodesic Dome, which Fuller studied and spread throughout the world.
A geodesic dome is a hollow structure made up of triangles whose vortexes coincide with the surface of a sphere or an ellipsoid.
It is an extremely lightweight, economic and robust structure due to its simplicity, and it can be built with several materials, from bamboo to steel-carbon fibres.
Any force applied upon it is distributed toward the base through the triangular elements that form it. These characteristics make it possible to be used with many different purposes, from a school playground to enormous habitats.