Dymaxion Bathroom

207 51 8 granted november 5 1940 inventor.

Dymaxion bathroom. To the right we see a self contained dymaxion bathroom unit. Realizing that the dymaxion would require significant improvements before it could be mass produced fuller set aside the car to focus on other projects including a dymaxion house bathroom map. Buckminster fuller the first mass producible bathroom was designed for the 1927 dymaxion house and the first prototype produced in 1930 although it was never shown to the public. 08 spare parts from the second dymaxion house found in a storage unit.

The four stamped sheet metal or molded plastic sections are each light enough to be carried by two workers. Dymaxion bathroom worried by the poor sanitation inefficiency and high cost of bathrooms bucky came up with a solution in 1936. The dymaxion house was a futuristic dwelling invented by the architect and practical philosopher r. 2 220 482 filed may 12 1938 serial no.

The dymaxion bathroom was comprised of four stamped sheets of metal or moulded plastic which could be bolted together by section and was light enough to be carried by two workers. The roof and the floor were suspended off the central mast by several steel cables and were tethered to the ground by cables. His first dymaxion design was based on the design of a grain bin. The 1928 version also incorporated pneumatic partitions inflatable furniture glass tables suspended by neon lit cables a moulded bathroom unit with atomized spray photo electrically controlled revolving storage units and pneumatic silver balloon silk doors non existent in the earlier 1927 dymaxion house.

Forget about a messy installation process all of the appliances and plumbing are built in and one only needs to hook it up. The dymaxion house was a structure built around a central post that was embedded into the ground like a large stake. Inside the house contained two bedrooms two bathrooms a living room dining room kitchen kitchen. 07 jay baldwin team leader holding a tapered aluminum floor beam.

The dymaxion house was completed in 1930 after two years of development and redesigned in 1945. In 1936 buckminster fuller introduced the idea of a dymaxion bathroom. Army commissioned fuller to send these housing units to the persian gulf. Prefabricated dymaxion bathroom united states patent office no.

During world war ii the u s. A portable copper structure that included a self cleaning shower and a waterless toilet that automatically shrink wrapped human waste for composting.