Buckminster Fuller made his Dymaxion houses round because they were aerodynamic and because a circular house encloses more floor area for a given amount of perimeter material. According to the Ottawa Citizen , people are still doing it, for much the same reasons. But instead of aluminum, Laurie Murray and George Kerr built theirs out of cordwood, a very old fashioned form of construction where one takes foot thick slabs of wood laid on their sides…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Round Homes Catching On, But Are They Green?
