BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSEWhen we look at the beauty that nature has designed into its creatures over many hundred millions of years, we have to wonder at the relative ugliness that man has designed into the majority of modern habitats for the ordinary person.
People deserve an attractive habitat that gives a positive force to their living. What tends to happen is a separation of quality of habitat such that your higher income people live in areas separated away from those of more modest means. This results in a general habitat for the community that is spotty. It's really nice in some areas and really ugly in others.
I think nature, which has had a head start on human logic by many million years, is trying to tell us something. The first thing nature tells us is that rectangles are not as good in designing habitats as spheres and rounded shapes. If we examine the work of honey bees we see that even they adapted the straight line and improved on the rectangle with shapes that are six sided. Are we less intelligent than the honey bee? Nature shows us many things about drainage and water proofing, hydrolysis and energy absorption from the sun. All these technologies of nature can be adapted by man to improve human habitats.
Buckminster Fuller the inventer and innovator developed the theoretical base for a new science, which he dubbed design science. Design science is based on mathematics that goes beyond the boringly familiar geometries of rectangles. Jay Kappraff, the mathematician rediscovered design science for himself and then suddenly became aware of Buckminster Fuller's work. By observing nature both individuals opened the way for many others to follow and based on their ideas, we can build architectural structures for all people that provide a more welcoming habitat.