My husband attended the expo in 67. In college he used Fullers designs to create lighting grids for a tent theater, and a set using pvc pipe and 2x4. Today I live in a dome house we built in 1980. It’s great space.

The part when your daughter talks about the dandelions must fill you with pride, to hear such critical thinking freely expressed at their age, you must be an amazing mother to foster such curiosity and tbh it makes me a little jealous of your kids!

This is really special to me, my father was a foreman for the city of Montreal who built the dome, is crew of welder worked 7 days a week to have it ready for the opening in 1967 ....

@gl4989

3 жыл бұрын

Wow je ne savais pas que ça avait été construit par des employés de la ville!

@linnymaemullins3319

3 жыл бұрын

Cool😍

@lawrencefox563

2 жыл бұрын

@@gl4989 Bien sur

@samyoungblood3740

2 жыл бұрын

I want one around my home & 3acres

I went to the expo in 1967 as a 13 year old with the Girl Scouts. We traveled from Albany, NY and camped somewhere in Montreal. It was a very formative experience for me.

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. As a 13-yr-old leaving the suburbs for an urban experience was a big deal for me (although San Francisco isn't incredibly dense). I can imagine that would have had an impact.

@RickSterling

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirstendirksen I went there in "67 also .. was 16 ... Expo '67 with Explorer Scouts .. We camped out along the St. Lawrence. This was after my first trip to Europe in '65.... Habitat "67 was my favorite exhibit .. you should do a video on it. Was way ahead of it's time ... spurred me into my current career of real estate. Habitat '67 made a lasting impression.

"Don't try to reform people--don't tell them to behave differently and expect them to jump in line. Rather, reform the environment. Build things so that people will embrace change because it's easier, faster, and better. Make the healthy choice the easy choice." - Buckminster Fuller

@groupstink3466

3 жыл бұрын

Yes this guy was a monster. Building beautiful large open areas to move around freely and then cleaning their waste water with natural means instead of chemicals.

@groupstink3466

3 жыл бұрын

@Shit Kicker he could have had sharks with lasers teaching our children to make robots that are fueled by stem cells

@ronsmith1364

3 жыл бұрын

Naysayers ✔ Constructive alternatives Exactly

@zed804

3 жыл бұрын

great quote! thanks for sharing.

@groupstink3466

3 жыл бұрын

@michael How many hours of your life have you spent planted in front of a television? Letting the programmers at Fox news tell you what to think?

I was at the 1967 Expo!

I wonder what Bucky Fuller would think today to see his dome still standing, but without the acrylic panel cladding that caught fire in 76. It’s a beautiful structure like a piece of art, but without any significant function which was Bucky’s intention.

@linnymaemullins3319

3 жыл бұрын

🤔

@suzannerichard5779

3 жыл бұрын

Did you watch and listen? It has many functions, being an educational museum amongst others.

Merci d’être passé chez nous!

I love when you narrate over your videos Kristen ♥️

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Though usually people have much more to say than I do. This just needed a few transitions.

@djackson006

3 жыл бұрын

Kirsten Dirksen in Scotland they've built a chainmail enclosure around the hill house (Charles Renee mackintosh) You can walk around the outside of the building all the way up to the roof. I think the building has never ending damp and the chainmail takes on most of the rain, but you can still see the building from the outside. I'll find a vid. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYCq0qmzncbRY8o.html

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks @Mnd0vrMnky I checked out the video. It reminds me a bit of the man in Connecticut who built a hangar around the historical home on his property kzread.info/dash/bejne/fa18u8x-n8iqYto.html Or the new house around the crumbling croft lodge in Herefordshire kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6mG1M6uadCcZM4.html

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

@@justgivemethetruth I think a lot of people didn't understand that one, but I really liked it as well. Very atmospheric place.. hard to get a hold of what time period you're in.

@raybon7939

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirstendirksen my belief is for a while that domes could conquer alaska. something like a 1/4 size dome of the astro dome would allow a homestead to make it anywhere in alaska canada or anywhere really.

Concieved and born in '67. Me and that structure. :))) From all I remember, I was obssesed with that structure, triangles-that-shape-a-sphere, and the big non-efficiency of rectangular buildings and habitate and "why" people don't aply this shape în real life. I AM living în a geodom, I truly living în my geodom from 20 years now and, against all other, everyday it's proving its qualities vs squares.

Great job. The dandelion segment was both sweet and informative!

I so remember touring the pavilion during Expo 67 as a 13 year old. It was the most amazing Expo and something you never ever forget.

I met Buckminster Fuller in ~1982 when he gave a speech at ECU in Greenville NC. He was just a little old guy sitting in a chair outside the Mendenhall Student Center. We talked about the Navy, which I had recently joined. I knew he had served in the USN. He was just a real sweet, little guy.

I live about 20 miles from there. I love getting there to dream about building a sheltered house inside of a smaller one... It was such a sad day when the plastic panels burned down!☹️

I love the spaces within spaces kind of architecture

Thanks for sharing this! I've always loved Buckminster's geodesic dome designs and his philosophies for building a better society. I would really enjoy seeing more geodesic homes on your channel. Wishing you well!

Expo 67's Geodesic dome is the largest in the world. The World's fair of that year was such a party, that if you ask your parents or grandparents, you'll hear an Interesting story about it. Montreal was Canada’s largest city and the world beat a path to its door.

@lylestavast7652

3 жыл бұрын

there are several over 600' in diameter

I love Montreal and the biodome! I remember seeing that exhibit on future living last year, part of the reason I thought it so cool was because I had gotten interested in unique living spaces from watching your videos :) one of my favorite things from that exhibit was a big book of blank city maps where people could draw out the way they'd imagine an ideal city, with communal gardens and living, where the parks would go, bike paths, etc.

I've been enjoying your videos for at least a decade now, thank you so much for making them. You have a great perspective.

I love that it's been converted into a museum. What a wonderful message to leave behind.

Yeah! I feel so proud. Thank you from Montréal, Canada.

AS I'M WATCHING THIS GREAT VIDEO. I remember that I have never took the time to thank you for your work and those amizing project you made me discovered. So a Big Thanks

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the thanks!

My dad travelled by train from Vancouver to Montreal for the world's fair. I'd love to recreate that trip (so much more expensive now!)

You guys were right next door!!! Great to have you in Montreal!

I went to Expo 67, didn't go to the American exhibit, line was crazy long (not that any had sort lines). Remember standing in lines all day.

Love Bucky, thank you for making this film 🙏

Love to see Montreal represented in your videos! We have so much history here and I loveee Expo! Thanks for this and love your videos!

I was born and raised in Montreal ! Love my city

Amazing. Following all your work and last week you were in MTL!! 🥰🥰

Thank you for doing this video in french

I have the chance to look at the sphere every day and night while illuminated from my living room verry nice .

Wonderful photography of the present dome, and interesting info from the past. As a Montrealer, BUcky changed my life. I had plans to build my own dome that never quite happened, but yeah, Spaceship Earth is what I learned at 17 years old.

A world with benefit, balance and sustainability. Imagine if The Buckminster Fuller Institute had been put in charge of the world's environment 50 years ago. I know where I'd rather live.

@Rodoriginal101

3 жыл бұрын

just another version of false promises. They wanted to live sustainably yet they welded the structure because it was cheaper. I rest my case when it comes to fake and pointless utopian ideas.

I grew up just across the river and would see the dome in the distance every day. I was too young for Expo 67, but in the early 1970s the city of Montreal organized an annual exhibit every summer called Man and his World. Most of the buildings from Expo 67 were still intact. I remember going through the big dome in a monorail, and inside it was full of palm trees and parrots. This was before the plastic sheeting burned in 1976.

I have two geodesic domes that I will be building this spring. ✌️🚌⛵️💗

Your kids have probably seen more diverse and inspiring types of architecture than most architects do in a lifetime! I wonder if one of them will grow up to be an architect.

@ragemodels

3 жыл бұрын

So true !!! I love the way her daughter nailed the Dandelion analogy to the grid pattern of the dome !!! They probably will have the koolest living spaces !!!

Seeing that for the 1st at age 9 was SO COOL! It still is!

This is a wonderful showcase ... I just discovered your channel Kirsten! 💖✨🏆✨👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💕⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ah. I went to Expo 67! I was just 16 I think. Great experience! We had a farm on Lake Ontario, NY. Drove to Brockville and took a train to Montreal. A real adventure for me. Everything looked so futuristic then. It looks as though they won't be restoring the glass panels. It still is nice, though. You can feel the wind now.

I LOVE your videos! 💜

At 12:16 the guide says the triangles are equilateral. This is incorrect. A structure built of all equilateral triangles would necessarily be flat. In a dome of this size, depending on the geometry, breakdown and frequency, there can be hundreds of different chords and triangle sizes.

Thanks for this great video! I live in Montreal and remember when this burned down in 1976. After the fire, many Montrealers thought it would be torn down and because it was abandoned for more than a decade. The Expo 67 site has been revitalized and renamed Parc Jean-Drapeau, and on this same site you can still find another man-made island called Ile Notre-Dame where there are other pavillions from Expo 67, a beach, a rowing basin, a large casino and of course the race car track called Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, which is actually very popular for bike racers and triathletes. Ile Ste-Hélène also housed an infamous internement camp for WWII POWs, and the buildings are still standing not far from the Biosphere.

So cool, would love to visit the place sometime

These three kids are gonna be geniuses

@buddyloco9504

3 жыл бұрын

What would make them geniuses?

@sunwoosjawline613

3 жыл бұрын

@@buddyloco9504 Maybe be with their parents seeing wonderful places around the world instead of sitting in front of a video game?

@MsLinda165

3 жыл бұрын

and yet they're annoying; maybe leave them out of videos until they've learned a bit of humility rather than the 'know it all' attitude; and maybe learn a few manners?

@buddyloco9504

3 жыл бұрын

@@sunwoosjawline613 how do you know they don't play lots of video games? also how does traveling with parents make a genius?

This channel is under rated

Love your videos thank you so much!!!!

Gorgeous dome and all the environmental aspects are very well thought out. The only quibble is that the building inside is all right angles and straight lines which seems to be at war with the dome's design esthetic. I'd love to see great sweeping organic curves on the structures or maybe something modeled on the dandelion seed that the little girl demonstrated so well.

I went to EXPO 67 as a newborn baby, my dad was so impressed with the dome he built a double dome over our swimming pool. It covered a 20' by 60' pool and the patio around , two domes connected in the middle because the pool was rectangular and the dome would have to by to big to use just one. The dome was 4X4's bolted to hub's made of 3 pieces of 3/4" plywood laminated together and clear plastic on the inside and the outside.

I went there on my honeymoon in 67 when I was 21 and have never been returned, so I appreciate this look at the present.

the sweeet sound of quebecois ..

Dubai 2020 was gonna be amazing hopefully it will happen soon desert innovation is amazingly important for the future of our community

Wow. Amazing.

Superb 👍

Wonderful video!!!! I see the dome from where I live. Buckminster Fuller was ahead of his time. Thank you Kirsten for embracing such a diversity of projects to our great delight. Love, as always your images AND soundscapes. Ps where did you learn French?. You speak with such elegance and confidance.

Loved this one :) It's fun to take a look back and see how people 'back then' imagined the future. Also, I think your kids inherited your curiosity :)

when you use the wireframe modifier

Montréal 💕 🇨🇦 🍁 I love how the dome is reconstructed after that tragic fire & now used for firefighters to train in climbing 🧗‍♂️ Also an important pilgrimage for students & aficionados of architecture- engineering / environmental sciences.

Interesting, I never knew this structure existed

I really enjoy the range and diversity of your subject matter and locations. I was recently pleasantly surprised to come across the one about forest bathing from a few years ago. It was a weekly practice for me when I lived in Kyoto, and can personally attest to it's benefits. I like your organic and casual style (it's tough to do casual well!). Much appreciated.

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the personal comment. I appreciate that you noticed those details. And that you remember the forest bathing video. I love that topic and plan on weaving it into a longer-form piece at some point.

@dianorrington

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirstendirksen That would be fantastic. I look forward to it!

It rained a lot yesterday in Seoul, Korea. The cold winter began with the cold wind blowing. I hope health is always with you. Thank you. ^O^

You are such a fucking treasure, thank you so much for your videos! If I wasn't afflicted with the need to make physical objects I would follow you in a caravan from architectural site to architectural site like I was a Dirkhead and your operation was the Grateful Dirk

très bien

Great presentation on years of example! Sustainability should be a central aspect in any use of resource, something still lightly regarded in any development.

@Rodoriginal101

3 жыл бұрын

then why weld it together and make it unusable? they pretend to be generous and sell the huge pile of nonsense for 1 dollar? It is like offering be a building full of asbestos- yeah got it for free but now I have to spend thousands to dispose of it. It amazes me why people cannot see through fake generosity. Hell is paved with good intentions, they say.

Amazing. I’m going to have to go to Montreal. R. Buckminster Fuller and Frank Lloyd Wright were so far ahead of their time. We’re only just now almost catching up to them. Thank You

Plant walls ❤ Want 9:34 Is that a giant variegated Monstera I see. 😍😍

Great analogy of Space Ship Earth

Love!

Waowww it’s my lovely city 🤩.

Buckminster Fuller gave a 40-hour lecture called 'Everything I Know' in the early 1970s. It's a commitment but it's well worth the effort if you want to further edify your education. He was at least 60 years ahead of his time. This video omitted to mention the 'World Game' that was part of this Expo - a computerized game where you had to allocate global resources sustainably - our politicians could learn from it.

Domes use the maximum amount of materials to enclose the minimum amount of USABLE space. And they have been nearly impossible to seal against rain. If you've ever been in a dome you notice how much of the enclosed space is wasted, so using all that material to get more space is a waste because the extra space isn't used. And, domes require lots more sawing of materials to create all those triangular frames. But that wouldn't be a problem if a factory cut them, and you could buy them already made. Domes would be more economical to build if they were a standard construction method, because materials manufacturers would make products for them. In addition to the frame members being potentially made in factories, plywood makers could make triangular plywood panels that are ready to go on the frames. But the problem that still is hard to deal with, is making one weatherproof. However, methods have been developed in recent times, notably, adhesive joint tape, and liquid applied panel sealant, so it may be possible to build leak proof domes today. But, the problem still remains that most things that we interact with, are better if they are straight, or rectangular. Curved closet rods don't work well. Rectangular beds make the most sense. Etc. So what usually happens is dome interiors are divided up by straight walls, and all of the straight stuff, gets put next to them. Things like, closets, bathrooms, kitchens, and all the other items that work better against straight walls. By the time you have a dome house finished, there really aren't enough advantages to make them worthwhile. As for covering entire communities with domes, the fire that burned the one in the video is still a threat, because we still don't have a clear material that is fireproof. Not to mention that the cost of enclosing a community would not be offset by any significant savings. You don't have to plow streets under a dome, so that's a saving; but you need to get the snow off the top of the dome, and that's not free either. Heating individual buildings inside the dome will cost less, especially with the solar advantage from the dome. But you need to cover much of that clear envelope above, or you will cook in the summer. If they come up with panels that shed snow, can't burn, and can go from transparent, to opaque, at the flip of a switch, and use no energy when in both states, we might be at a point where giant domes become worthwhile.

@rudidueck4950

2 жыл бұрын

You must feel great to have got that off your chest!

@deezynar

2 жыл бұрын

@@rudidueck4950 It is useful information, which is more than can be said for your comment. But hey, you must have felt better after you got it off your chest.

Cool. Too bad no panels as far as enclosure, but still cool. Should of flew the drone around in there, or over it. You find some awesome places.

This is interesting

Geodesic domes are very interesting, but I have heard that often leak.

We should integrate the use of green walls, green roofs and marshes! So efficient

if I'm not mistaking the time I got a tour it wasn't the black water but grey water , maybe the tour guide was mistaking or he didn't understand exactly what you meant..

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So beautiful. I had no idea it caught fire. oops.

Aquaponics I wasn't expecting in 2020?!!

That's quite huge

@alex0589

3 жыл бұрын

It is. You can see it for miles. It's part of the landscape like dowtown, the bridges and mount royal.

@samuelhasudungan6476

3 жыл бұрын

@@alex0589 wow.. great

It is strange, I've seen it exactly in my one's sleep

This is my home city, I visited the dome as a kid, but it's been a long time now. I think I will revisit, if only to remember what plants I should get inside the house.

I wonder if he understood what you meant by black water. Can't imagine it being dumped into green spaces like that.

the blue marble is admittedly (by the artist) photos-shopped look it up

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Little but Buckminster dome sous la terre as our Montreal spokesman gave review in French c,est ne pas un problem pour moi.

I started doing a design kind of like that with an egg shape sunk into the ground awhile back. Partially inspired by this image: permies.com/t/50895/a/43836/Screen-Shot-2016-09-27-at-2.24.23-AM.png The goal of embedding it into the ground would be for better climate performance due to the insulating effect of the ground (although of course there would be significant challenge to prevent flooding). It would be quite large and incorporate permaculture and aquaponics etc. It would be sort of like a tree inside of an egg, with multiple platforms for buildings branching out at different vertical levels arranged to maximize light. And hopefully find a material that permitted some UV B actually for the clear areas of the enclosure since that is a critical component of vitamin D3 production missing from modern indoor life. And have multiple levels of small autonomous transport pods inside to multiple levels, and out between eggs. Anyway, they should use some fire resistance techniques and enclose or partially enclose the area again. Ideally with some mechanism for shade and opening and closing ventilation. Because as it is the dome is just decoration. But the idea of creating an enhanced enclosed environment makes a lot of sense. Especially now that we have sophisticated techniques for high-tech cooperation such as smart contracts, open source data exchange, distributed technologies, etc. It would be possible to design and finance such a project in a collaborative way with many different companies and individuals participating over the internet.

@Mathannix

3 жыл бұрын

That's a really cool idea. You could add a "sunroof" to the dome to allow UVB in and then close it when it is not needed.

Looked like the Death Star burning :).

Not sure if you guys have seen the monolithic dome homes company in Texas USA? Their domes survive hurricanes and tornadoes!

@kirstendirksen

3 жыл бұрын

I connected with them last summer, but we never coordinated to film. I got an email last week that their founder just died at age 81.

@honeycaffena4897

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirstendirksen we went to see them years ago, very nice people. Try again, they must have had too much stress at the time. Their living campus has several houses & little apartments.

i have been promoting domes for years, i think thqt domes can passify alaska. im sure of it.

아름다워

So interesting, this post. I now want to visit. It seems like one of those places you would walk through and exclaim "wow." But here in the US we seem to ignore the architecture that is "wow". Big? Certainly. Impressive? Yes. But "wow" not so much.

how the hell did that kid get so smart

This would be cool for Mars settlements.

She's Soo smart, Dandelion shape🤔😉.

i would love a dome house but that size seems as it would look trippy almost scary in person. it looks like a machine of some kind. unicron lol

You can see the original dome and equipment on my channel

Cool, just like earth and disney

I am reminded of spaceship earth at Disney

@scooter1737

3 жыл бұрын

Most of EPCOT begged, borrowed, and, stole from Expo67

👍👍👍👌❤

I want to climb it!