Rendering of ideas into functional concrete was attempted. Expedient
utility without ready sales afforded the maverick time outside of the limelight. For lack of popular success one could actually inquire the way with less interruptions and less distractions.
Hard physical, productive energy needs an organized, visceral, emotional drive, which entails all the resulting baggage procured, but must ultimately obey the intellect, to override indulgences when the way clearly opens up wide and afar.
Image below is the interior of image above. This coffered pioneering was barely possible to build, with primitive hand sculpted methods and with makeshift forms and cheap equipment.
Unpopularity was the blessing in disquise.
Admittedly the finish work and polish was never attempted as the raw work dragged on for over eight summers, (mostly single handed and with rare help borrowed from outside jobs, of contracting for income).
Just as soon as the structural exterior was mostly waterproofed, other life needs overwhelmed me, and the Treedome work stopped as-is, unfinished, and many makeshift details remain evident, yet enduring.
Besides the odd jobs to support this “structural-research” some inner peace had to be found too. Time was devoted towards ”inquiring the way” from a succession of sources, despite my lack of foreknowledge.
Warning signs would eventually indicate insufficiencies in each found paper book or other source of partial information, and the searches continued elsewhere, when other systems became searchable on line, especially after the internet arrived.
A comprehensive system integrating better evidence was wanted. Creativity could at least promote some handyman services. Imagined attractions spurred the search onward, from youth until old age, a “seeker's determined aspiration”.
The original, visual index-links were thumbnail images. Focussed writings began here starting during 2025, to share some inspirations and methods of a makeshift- affordability, prioritizing an ecological harmony with physical life.
Intellectual ideas are included to:
Exploratory geometry taught perspective of structure. Long hours of exploratory 3d computer modeling helped discharge the emotional surging and well-utilized winter hibernation.
Visualizations inspired by nature and life were occasionally added to my earlier, poorly coded webpages, and perchance for serendipity.
A new app (Sitely) is now used to improve this web content and salvage some of the old, outdated code. Older links might be restored, if life permits.
Using outlines of precisely formed polygons had long motivated attempted simulations by winding coil symmetries to observe the electromagnetically, patterned resonation effects. To see what would happen.
Visualization and actualization took many forms and electromagnetism was a foundational panorama for exploration. If google searches of my specialized terms yield broken links, then, addition of “ /pre2025/ “ in-front of the page name should dig up the older relevant content.
The isotropic coil, as an animated image intends to adequately define a tetrahedral polarity coiled up, and to objectively trace its precisely intersecting magnetic fields. Bucky Fuller invented geodesic framing as efficient, structural enclosures, and applying polyhedral geometry to coiled electromagnetic structures has seemed like a natural and an adventurous, futuristic possibility. Physical experiments of this kind burned out the author's limited test equipment and would require other resources or other experimenters to improve on the implications illustrated here. Egotism is being increasingly cast off by openly sharing ideas with the wide world all around. (Rather than pretense of self-importance.
Experiments with electromagnetic coils are shared as much as can be restored through learning Sitely which is an additional task to learn its wonderful tools.
Variations on the traditional torus shaped coil provide fascination with tools to smoothly reverse polarity of windings inside the torus, (donut shape), to affect a twisting magnetic field inside a wire wound torus coil. In all my models the number of turns primarily intends to illustrate the idea rather than specify precise engineering.
Phases of earlier work follow below. Some of the structural concepts became physical work and some of the photos became digitally edited for sales-promotion, like the concrete garden bridge of the mid 1990s in the next photo. Sweating out a livelihood with concrete sculpture along with the naturally whole foods maintained good health.
" Imagine ~ Design ~ Build"
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1990s Photo edited Promotion
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Could efforts somehow
assist evolution?
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Healthy imagination could provide some attraction,
design would employ
sciences & engineering,
and building is really lifting and moving of parts,
properly fitted into final resting positions.
The somewhat isolated contractor’s lifestyle allowed exploration towards integral harmonization, while testing out practicalities. In a much later retrospect, the small earnings happily avoided much of the "bad sowing" of society's "default egotism", where the bad reaping of society's leadership is exacerbated by harmful resource-disposability in wars and short-lived consumer consumption.
Natural resources are gambled like dice and societies are pawned. Ecological rationality ignored and got flooded by divisiveness. Mass illusions and fictions block consciousness development, which could evolve mankind out its consensual trance.
A lesser acquisitive life could research more serviceable remediations. Makeshift models sustained life’s needs while inspiring worthier possibilities ahead.
A difficult and disciplined adventure is rarely popular. How is harmlessness achieved at the end of a roiling age? Efforts of plain inspiration are continuing.
The decades of earlier promotional efforts to sell sculptural ideas had averaged little over a minimum wage. These occupations lost income from sales for lack of startup investments or helpful connections.
Modeling and graphical promotions could at least make webpages when the public internet began inventing itself in the 1990s. A glorified physicality wasn’t achieved, but rather just a determined vision.
Posting we content was intended to graphically show how a determined scrabbling might flower before life’s waning,
Digital publishing is helpful but at this point in time, public app development is underfunded globally, while elitist AI opposes consciousness development of any kind, by busily fortifying elitest ramparts instead.
Growing harmoniously with shoulder high perennials resulted in a new need. Too 'easily' establish shorter annuals like vegetables, closer to the kitchen, in between taller growth already there, and older, thick grow which was already long established, and just where the grow bags can suddenly fit. A technical solution was envisioned. A solution was inspired by the popular, portable grow bags.
Some inventive, workable modeling was produced, with good potentials, and the older, crudely prototyped set of planters has at last been covered for use in 2026.
Only a few cement stands were produced and were tested, except that the automatic watering was never successfully installed, and grow bags dry out quickly when raised up above ground level. Simpler watering be readied spring time growth.
Homesteader designs were focussed for decades passing, instead of the consumerst product lines which depart from nature;s way.
The advantage of edge-pleating square, planar sheets of plastic to raise a dome effect at center could increases strength of thin shells, and thin pleated shells are more efficiently resilient than are thick, flattened concrete slabs with the same amount of concrete used. The work of forming could prove economical and ecological with pleats, and also with better means. Digital geometry made up for lack of it formal childhood schooling.
Immersive, rule-based arrays of ordered polyhedrons were modeled, but it was a needed rain-shield-wall which urged printing out some large-format geometry.
A was another hypothesis incorporating thinner, shell like form work by integrating sizable plastic drain tubing to reduce concrete cost and to add increased thermal capacity in a geothermal floor.
The decades of earlier promotional efforts to sell sculptural concrete had averaged little over a minimum wage. These occupations did not earn a popular living standard, because the disciplined effort could not instantly deploy through marketing.
Nevertheless, liberating mentality from popular emotionality and improving the directions taken allowed integration of discernable meditations each day. Even with imperfect conditions, this allowed part time jobs in between, for income. Endless updates promoted serviceability.
The attainment of higher emotional consciousness is mapped out by hylozoics as higher, natural evolution, (beginning from mankind’s current position). Learning about cause and effect as sowing and reaping, and begins with the service to life’s larger evolution.
Starting ourself on an upward path needs a determined resolve, to navigate right; because, the inspiration is a joyful reward, whereas determined matrix-consumers remain unaware of inspiration, due to digital trance addictions for lack of a real service applications.
The following assortment of ideas and projects mostly date after year 2000 when digital graphical processors and PC memory slowly became more affordable. The added story of seeking for knowledge with many contextualizations continues until the webpage ends, but combined with examples of the sustaining inspirations.
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Earlier design and physical constructionprojects follow below, and some of the individual pictures had once linked to further detailed images. (Linked content was lost in new website software due to obsolete www code).
Design ~ Build Service Begun In 1971
Earlier design and physical constructionprojects were visual index below, but the linked images are still a task to repair, if opportunities unfold.Linked content was too crude for a rebuilt inclusion into my new website app system. Some of it is functional in a partitioned folder: http://www.harmoniouspalette.com/pre2025/
Earlier design and physical constructionprojects were thumb-nailed above, but the linked images are still a task to repair, if opportunities unfold . Linked content seem too crude for a rebuilt inclusion into my new website app.
Re-structucturing of old website code is a possibility. Coders welcomed to barter for updating job, in exchange for customized graphical work.
