11/10 You can stay at the Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto! The first premium experience since the museum opened.

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[CELEBRATING 90TH Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art 90th Anniversary Festival Let's stay in modern architecture]

[Date and time] November 10th (Friday) 19:30 to November 11th (Saturday) around 9:00 (scheduled)

[Target] Elementary, junior high, and high school students and their guardians 18 years of age or older

[Location] Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art 124 Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City Map (Google Map)

[Application for participation] Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis from 10:00 on Wednesday, October 11th, final deadline is Wednesday, October 25th.

Application for participation *You will be redirected to an external site. * Teket registration is required to apply for participation.

[Meeting location] Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art Main Building 1st floor old west entrance

[Price] 48,000 yen per tent (tax included)

*Includes sleeping bag, light dinner, breakfast, workshop to make a fuller tent with paper, night museum tour, insurance, etc.

Sponsor: Kyoto Modern Architecture Festival Executive Committee, Kyoto City

Cooperation: THE NORTH FACE, Blanco Co., Ltd., Mishima Foods Co., Ltd., Mizu to Rice, Cultural Education Tourism Council

Image provided by THE NORTH FACE

What’s so great about Buckminster Fuller “2-METER DOME”?

Geodesic Dome (commonly known as Fuller Dome)
A hemispherical structure that applies the stability of the triangle, which is the most well-known of Fuller's techniques and inventions. "Geodesic" refers to a "geodesic line" that connects two points on a sphere. By applying the principle that a sphere has the largest volume with the smallest surface area, we have proven that it is possible to create a living space that is the lightest, strongest, and most durable. It has also been used in harsh environments such as Antarctica and the top of Mt. Fuji.

How Fuller Dome was born

It was patented in the mid-1950s, and it is said that over 200,000 geodesic domes have been built around the world. THE NORTH FACE's young founder Kenneth Hap Kropf, product designer Mark Erickson, and production manager Bruce Hamilton created a tent that could be packed into a backpack and carried by one person in place of the A-frame tent that was mainstream at the time. We were looking for a new tent that was as light and sturdy as possible, and had enough living space. In 1975, under the supervision of Richard Buckminster Fuller, a genius thinker and engineer known as the ``Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th century,'' he created OVAL INTENTION, a tent with a new shape that overturned common sense. The concept is ``dymaxion,'' a word coined by Fuller that means getting the maximum effect with the minimum amount. Normal tents support the tent body with multiple straight poles, but the framework is made of arched shaft-type poles, and there are no vertical columns. This tent became a huge hit and determined the future of THE NORTH FACE. In 1976, it was adopted by a joint British-Canadian expedition to Patagonia. While all of the existing tents were blown away by the blizzard, which reportedly had wind speeds of up to 200 km/h, it was the only tent that withstood the strong winds and saved the lives of the members. In 1984, 2METER DOME, also supervised by Fuller, was released. It is a large dome tent with a radius of 2 meters, and is currently used by many polar expeditions, including Himalayan expeditions. 43 years have passed since the birth of ``OVAL INTENTION''. In 2018, Geodome 4 was born, inheriting Fuller's geodesic dome theory but reconsidering the design from the ground up. It has a unique exterior reminiscent of a spaceship, is reinforced with wire to ensure wind resistance and strength, and has a spacious living space that allows for standing work. The message left by the great thinker and engineer that ``a comfortable living environment creates happiness'' continues to exist today in all parts of the earth, undergoing various evolutions.

Who is Buckminster Fuller?

He had close relationships with Richard Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Isamu Noguchi, and others, and developed a unique field that crossed architecture, geometry, natural science, and anthropology. He likens the Earth to Spaceship Earth , a ship that uses solar energy to move and sustain the lives of its crew (human beings), and raises global issues such as sustainability and ecology , suggests solutions, and inspires many of the next generation. It also had a great influence on architects.
His representative works include the geodesic dome (commonly known as the Fuller Dome) and the American Pavilion at the Montreal Expo. His major works (Japanese translations) include ``Spaceship Earth Operating Manual'' (1968) and ``The World of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion'' (1960).

editor: Hiroko Chino

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