Plan: Wichita House by Buckminster Fuller
The floor plan of the Wichita House was created using a set of constraints that defined the distance of each room element (bathrooms, bedrooms, tables, couch) in relation to the exterior circular building envelope.
By changing the diameter of the exterior wall, the house essentially pulled itself apart into a donut shape where the room elements either gathered together or floated away.
At the most extreme end of the progression, the Wichita House has divided itself into a vast circular hallway broken up by rooms perpendicular to the flow of traffic. More abstractly, the movement of the elements parallel the movements of galaxies within our own expanding universe. Given a large enough area, rooms will eventually become their own fully independent entities with no possible interaction between themselves.
Exterior Diameter values were 3.1 (original), 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 6.0, and 8.0 units.
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