pic: Expo 67 geodesic dome

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Aren,
As cool as it might look, I can tell you from experience, the acoustic environment is beyond belief. This is one place you would not want to live. When studying sound with Don Davis, he related a problem space in Indiana where they had mounded a hill out of dirt, then covered it with concrete, removed the dirt and called it a church. When they couldn't get the sound reinforcement to work they called in Don. His response was to put the dirt back in and call it a day. All sound gets reflected back to you including your breathing. The same effect takes place when you walk from one side of a pylon on Sear's Tower to the other. (this is inside the antenna structures) Suddenly all sound come back to you from every direction at once. If you are not hanging onto the handrails, it will shock you enough to lose your balance.