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How geometry, modularity, and first-principles thinking shape our shelter systems.

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The Shape of Shelter

The Shape of Shelter

Why a truncated icosahedron built from hardware store lumber might be the most practical structure you have never heard of

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1

Every Way Humans Have Built With Sticks — and Where Thiosphere Fits

March 17, 2026 6 minutes

2

Why Geodesic Saunas Outperform Barrel Saunas

March 12, 2026 7 minutes

3

The Hyposphere: A Thought Experiment in Pressurized Geometry

February 25, 2026 10 minutes

4

The Shape of Shelter

February 25, 2026 10 minutes

5

Why Not a Dome? Geodesic vs Modular Prismatic Design

February 23, 2026 8 minutes

6

Scaled Spheres: Smaller, Larger, and Mixed

February 9, 2026 7 minutes

7

Beyond the Pair: Multi-Sphere Clusters

February 7, 2026 8 minutes

8

The Duo Configuration: Two Spheres, One Parking Space

February 5, 2026 6 minutes

9

Shipping Finished Modules Costs Less Than Raw Lumber

January 30, 2026 4 minutes

10

Flat Packable Modules

January 15, 2025 9 minutes

11

The Lessons in Teardown

September 29, 2024 10 minutes

12

Not Your Buckys Dome

September 14, 2024 9 minutes

13

Why Vertical Farming Fails

August 27, 2024 10 minutes

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