RDS SnowFlake Configuration | Deploying the Entire System | | The deployment of the RDS with Armature to Davos 05 constituted a technical breakthrough for MG Taylor/AI. Although not a flawless experience, it demonstrated the growing capability of the design team and the shop to engineer and manufacture a complex system. | | Now, we are ready for the next level of recursion: the entire shell of the RDS. The hexipent dome configuration is the most likely candidate for this structure. I designed the SnowFlake configuration in 1976 as an exercise for the Renascence Project in Kansas City [link]. To date it has not been realized. It is a simple to build structure and provides a varied and flexible space that is perfect for an RDS. It also can be utilized for a variety of living/working spaces. This means that RDS deployments are not only possible for events but also for setting up short term “office” deployments [link]. This may be the resolution for the need of a MG Taylor regional office compound in the Nashville area A three dome 18 POD version will be about 6,000 square feet and can be built by us for about $400,000 [link]. One dome can be +/- 50 person group process area, one for office and studio areas and one living. The PODS can be kitchens, bathrooms, personal work and sleeping areas, archives, guest facilities, technology and storage. Much of the next generation NavCenter and postUsonian grammar can be expressed inside this shell. Most of the work can be done by the shop and architectural team. The landscaping can explore earth berming, greenhouse and permaculture concepts. | | Achieving this not only prototypes an RDS that can be shipped and set up anywhere independent of infrastructure, it brings us to the capability of building EcoSphere and UsonianOne. Thus, we will be well down the road to Domicile and Xanadu scale projects which, in turn, will take us to the threshold of megacity scale projects. This “bootstrap” process has been an integral aspect of our strategy from the beginning [link]. Our failure, to date, is that we have put millions into renting traditional spaces, and doing what we can with them, rather than building our own ideas (no matter how modest such as Snowflake) which deveop our own design-build capibility, provide us with better facilities and demonstrates our work more fully. | | As the compound can be thought of as semi-permanent, it allows us to learn, in stages, the techniques necessary to make a fully transportable Snowflake RDS shell system. | | Matt Taylor
Washington DC
February 17, 2005 
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