時差N小時:巴克敏斯特福樂和他的球型屋頂

Ever heard of a man named Buckminster Fuller, orBucky, as hisfriends called him?

聽說過一個叫巴克敏斯特·福樂的人嗎?

R.Buckminster Fuller was a twentiethcenturyscientist, philosopher, inventor, and was alsonamed a great architect.

朋友們常叫他巴基。巴克敏斯特·福樂是二十世紀(jì)的科學(xué)家，哲學(xué)家，發(fā)明家，同時他也是一名偉大的建筑師。

Part of what made Bucky so special was his concernfor the planet and humanity.

他如此特別的部分原因是他很關(guān)心地球和人類。

When you have a shortage of resources, he said, you get war.

他說當(dāng)缺乏資源時，就會發(fā)生戰(zhàn)爭。

Thus, he developed an idea called ComprehensiveAnticipatory Design Science.

所以，他開創(chuàng)了一種觀念，叫作“全面預(yù)期設(shè)計科學(xué)”。

It’s a mouthful, but what it entails is his belief that to solve humanity’smajor problems.

這個名字有點拗口，但它需要巴基的信念來解決人類主要問題。

We have to look forward to the future; we have to anticipate what will becomeproblems asresources diminish, etc.

我們必須展望未來;我們必須預(yù)期會出現(xiàn)的問題，比如資源減少等等。

His goal? Quote:

他是目標(biāo)?

“More and more life support for everybody, with less and less resources.”

引用一句話：用最少的資源維持更多人的生活。

He wasespecially interested in developing more efficient housing; that is, a new way ofconstructingbuildings so that they provide more housing space with the use of fewer resources.

他對開發(fā)更高效的住房特別有興趣;那是一種建造房屋的新的方式，用更少的資源提供更多的住房空間。

One solutionhe came up with in the late 1940′s is the geodesic dome, the invention he ismost famous for.

上世紀(jì)40年代末，巴基提出了一個解決方法，即球型屋頂，這也是他最著名的發(fā)明。

The geodesic dome is a structure shaped like a piece of a sphere.

球型屋頂是一個形狀像球體的結(jié)構(gòu)。

It’s made up of a complexnetwork of triangles, and the more complex this network the closerthe comes to the shape of atrue sphere.

它由一個復(fù)雜的網(wǎng)狀三角形構(gòu)成。網(wǎng)狀結(jié)構(gòu)越復(fù)雜，建筑物的形狀就越接近于真實的球體。

What’s so great about the dome is that it does exactly what Bucky wanted; that is,it has thehighest ratio of enclosed area to external surface.

圓屋頂額偉大之處在于它封閉區(qū)到外部表面的比例最高，那正是巴基想要的效果。

In other words, it uses fewer materialsto create more housing space.

換句話說，就是用更少的材料建造更多住房空間。