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1 BROOKLYN EAGL1 MAGAZINE, Hlouse of 1982 Built Like a Shi 77 fefr, Zterij-, Own Water, Power and Sewerage Systems wkltM.W II II I I- 1 4 IT All if 1 1 tc i I I -u, r- The central tower, or mast, would be made of duralumin tubes. Inflated to high pressure, in trianguation with piano wire steel which would make it similar to the battleship mast or dirigible mooring. In this way, the inventor points out, we would be employing steel in its most effective condition that of tension, which mould make it possible to construct a twelve-deck house, and bring up the question of multiple dwelUngs again. The mast of the house is to be anchored to the ground by its base, in which are the fuel and septic tanks, the heat and the power generating units, air pumps, air filter and water supply from an artesian well. The ground level will be utilized only for the storage of automobiles, airplanes, and for access to the mast where a triangular elevator will be installed.

The exterior walls, having only their own weight to support between floor levels, as in the modern steel frame Architect's conception of the Dymaxion house of the future, note the central mast and hexagonal sides Below, new in contemporary architectural development is this American combination of Colonial and European architecture II if I jar Ti -a ssm sis A '1 if jl A By Lou Wylie (Third in series of articles on the future home.) WHILE we are getting accustomed to the idea of houses reproduced in quantity, from a pattern, we might as well let our imaginations take a fling into the future, say fifty years hence, and see what some architects are already visioning as our probable dwellings in 1932 Discarding all those architects whose prophecies run no further than stream line blobs with here and there a protuberance meant to be a tower, but more often resembling a fat finger pointing out of the clouds of airplanes that invariably serve to decoiate the sky, let us investigate Buikminister Fuller's Dymaxion house, of which there has at least been a model built. The house planned by Mr. Fuller is the most radical thing that Manhattan" most radical architects have to offer in the way of prophecies on what the ultimate in dwellings is goinj to be. Such a house, they say. will first have to win popularity in China or Russia, but within fifty years we will have accepted It over here.

No joists, no beams. io foundations! None of the things thv.t we have expected and depended upon in houses since primitive woman demanded of her stone age husband "more sunshine for the babies," and made him build a hut, are to be found in the Fuller mansion. The house, Mr. Fuller will tell you, pulls with gravitation and does not combat it as our dwellings do and have done in the past. It Is very like a syp in a number of respects.

For one thing, it is built around a mast. In contains its own light, power, water and sewage disposal systems Independent of the city. Cables running from the top of the mast bear the. weight of the house, and building, are made of two thicknesses of translucent, opaque or transparent material with a vacuum between, providing ideal insulation against sound and heat. A series of light sources in the mast give diffused lighting through the whol ceiling area by means of simple prisma, mirrors and color screens.

When twilight falls for the machine age mother she can gather her young one up from a dustless floor and, as the house moves languidly to the wind that hums in its cables, sing "rock-a-bye baby in the tree top" with some degree of reality. Then, slipping Into another room, without fear of awakening her sleeping youngster she can turn on the television set, reach for a cigarette or the bonbons, and enjoy a goe4 rest from an arduous job of doing noth which the family may collect. Airplanes and automobiles have their place in the scheme of things, however, for a protecting wing can be lowered from its place against the floor ut the house to give plenty of garage or hangar space on the ground, about the mast. Furniture will be simplicity reduced to the lowest degree. A couch, chairs, built-in bookcases and wardrobes, and an occasional table here and there, and your house will be furnished.

Within the walls of the house will be concealed laundry apparatus, so that soiled linen can be tossed into a slot and come out at the other end, if not ironed, at least ready for the process. There is scant provision made for cooking, but the designer, who is scientifically inclined on the subject, believes that by that time it will be necessary to prepare very little of the food In the home. make it storm and earthquake proof, according to Mr. Fuller. The floors, as planned by the designer, are of a resilient material.

You can drop the baby or the best Dresden china upon it with equal safety for the floor, the baby or the china. The house will be either sexagonal or octagonal, according tc the number of rooms the family can afford. Each room will be so insulated that it will be entirely sound proof. There will be no windows, for the entire walls will be glass and immovable. As some of the modern dwellings of today, the house will be healed or cooled, according to the outride temperature, by a system of washed air that will relieve dustcloths of any place in the home.

A stairway is concealed in the mast, with parking space for baby carriages, tricycles and any other wheeled vehicles, except airplanes and automobiles, ing, than which there is nothing wearying. i.