Extended space enclosing structure
OwnerHelmut Bergmaninventor
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Abstract
A space enclosing structure, the underlying shape of which is a portion of a polyhedron comprised of a regular arrangement of regular pentagons, equilateral triangles, rhombi, right angled parallelograms and rhomboids. The structure permits the use of square and/or rectangular standardized prefabricated square or rectangular building units such as doors, windows, solar panels, etc., without any alteration of the basic shape of the structure, as such prefabricated units may be used to replace any of the square or rectangular faces of the polyhedron. Each face other than a right angled parallelogram is abutted on each side by a right angled parallelogram. Each right angled parallelogram is abutted on two opposite sides by rhomboids and/or rhombi and on the other two sides by a pentagon and a triangle.
Claims3
A space enclosing structure, having an outer edge, comprising a dome-like portion of an expanded non-regular rhombic triacontahedronal form,
- (a) the non-regular rhombic triacontahedronal form, which is expanded, comprising a deregularized regular rhombic triacontahedronal form of rhombus surfaces, each having acute and obtuse vertices and four outer edges of the said rhombus surfaces defining six sets of equivalent non-coplanar parallel edges, the non-regular rhombic triacontahedronal form having each of at least one the six sets of non-coplanar parallel edges of a length different than the length of each of at least one other of the six sets of non-coplanar parallel edges, to so transform at least some of the rhombus surfaces into rhomboid surfaces;
- (b) the non-regular rhombic triacontahedronal form being expanded into the expanded non-regular rhombic triacontahedronal form by an outward parallel displacement of each of the rhombus and rhomboid surfaces, respectively, to define (i) an equilaterally triangular surface between previously contiguous obtuse vertices, (ii) a regular pentagonal surface between previously contiguous acute vertices, and (iii) a right angled parallelogram surface between the previously colinear outer edges of the rhombus and rhomboid surfaces, the triangular and pentagonal surfaces all being equivalent, respectively;
- (c) the non-regular rhombic triacontahedronal form comprising the form defined by the said rhombus, rhomboid, triangular, pentagonal and right angle parallelogram surfaces.
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