IanB
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Edited Jan 18, 2010, 21:10
Re: Earthquake resistant housing
Jan 18, 2010, 21:09
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Buckminster Fuller had a well-documented and, as I undertstand it, widely accepted, theory about cheap-to-build domed structures being more resistent to these kind of natural calamaties but I am no engineer.
http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/421
http://www.designboom.com/history/tensegrity.html
Presumably domes are really bad for land-use efficiency when compared with box housing and stacked blocks of your average city.
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sanshee
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Re: Earthquake resistant housing
Jan 19, 2010, 20:55
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I know nothing about that, but someone suggested the death toll could've been even higher but for the tendency there to do lots of stuff outdoors; general cooking, even some classroom activites.
The worst thing I saw last night was a nine year old girl dying in a hospital bed. She didn't 'look' injured, but she could only breathe this dreadful rattle now and then, slipping away bit by bit. Genuinely disturbed me.
Lots of the schools round here have rallied round best they can. But it's the logistics over there.
Damn, what can you say?
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