Description • This sphere structure, Spaceship Earth, is the symbol and centerpiece structure of Epcot, a theme park that is part of the Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of the most famous structures there. Inside the attraction in the 18-story geodesic sphere, takes in a 13 min ride guests on a time machine themed experience using the Omnimover system. The attraction is a timeline from the origins of prehistoric man until the 21st century.
• Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury helped to design the structure and also helped to write the original storyline for the attraction. Both name were inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller.
• The structure, in similar texture to the United States pavilion from Expo 67 in Montreal, of a spheric geodesic dome. The building is a complete sphere, supported on legs.
• Spaceship Earth is a pentakis dodecahedron in geometric terms, with each of the 60 isosceles triangle faces divided into 16 smaller equilateral triangles. Each of those 960 flat panels is sub-divided into 4 triangles, each of which is divided into 3 isosceles triangles to form each point. In theory, there are 11,520 total isosceles triangles forming 3840 points. Due to space for supports and doors, the quantity is less, partially nonexistent, with a total of only 11,324 of them, with 954 partial or full flat panels.
• The design of cladding is in such way that rains water do not pours off directly onto the ground. All of it is "absorbed" through one inch gaps in the facets and is collected in a gutter system arrinving by channels into the World Showcase Lagoon.
• Diameter: 50 m
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