Building Code Enforcement Socks Owner of Low-Cost Home
Building Code Enforcement Socks Owner of Low-Cost Home Geodesic Dome Was One of the Structural Advances of the Twentieth Century BUILDING CODE ENFORCEMENT SOCKS OWNER OF LOW-COST HOME Innovative Dweller-built House Is Torn Down by Order of Code Official By Carol W. LaGrasseMarch 2008 Anyone who still labors under the misconception that building codes help people of modest income to live in safe, affordable homes that they actually own should look at these photographs telling the story of the geodesic dome house that David Greathouse built near Craig, Colorado. A geodesic dome has inherent strength and structural stability. It is also inexpensive to construct, because it uses a minimum of materials. The structural members, which form a triangular latticework, are light, but comprise a whole that has the combined advantages of the inherent strengths of both the triangle and the dome. The famed innovator Buckminster Fuller introduced a wide range of uses of the geodesic dome during the tw