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Giant dome made from 1,000 Hula Hoops and cable-ties

Posted April 01, 2008 8:43 AM

From Boing Boing:

Last fall, mass studies architecture studio created a temporary installation for the 25th anniversary of storefront for art and architecture gallery in New York city. The installation was created from about a thousand hula-hoops zip-tied together to form a massive dome structure. Now, storefront for art and architecture gallery has teamed up with abitare magazine to bring a new version of the ring dome to Milan for the salone del mobile. This new dome will use 1,500 hula-hoops and 12,000 zip-ties and will be installed in the galleria Vittorio emanuele shopping arcade in central Milan.

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04/01/2008 12:27 PM

oh those Hula Hoops ^_^

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04/01/2008 1:51 PM

I was thinking how fragile it would be! Imagine trying to build one in KP without eating any!

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04/01/2008 2:04 PM

When I was reading the original post, I was just thinking of something, then I read you post.

I do not know what KP is, but Kolleges, which makes cornflakes, (a U.S. company which makes breakfast cereal. ) Had done a study, on how a can a pile of cornflakes can be with out crushing the bottom flakes. They found out that the pile could be infinite due to the weight distribution on each flake.

sorry about the little factoid. But that little piece of knowledge was just killng me to unload it. Now I can move on.

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04/02/2008 6:45 AM

Hello phoenix911

<"....the pile could be infinite due to the weight distribution on each flake.">

That factoid is an essential, for stating at a lull in the conversation in the Boardroom, Planning Committee and the like, and is ideal to stop the average beancounter in his tracks.

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04/02/2008 6:42 AM

Buckminster Fuller would have been interested to see it.

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04/02/2008 8:45 AM

weird....interesting and cool, but weird...

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04/02/2008 1:44 PM

How bloody ODD that nobody thought to do this back in the 1970's...

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