The Octagons will be small skyscrapers with rooftop relaxation areas that allow for beautiful views. Lots of windows on the outer walls, a center octagon with no windows to allow for privacy areas with an octagon wrap around passage way between the two that houses all of the piping, wires, etc. which will help to reduce the cost of building.
The details of the bedrooms, commercial kitchens, chefs, yoga/meditation, exercise rooms, recreation (billiards, table tennis, etc.), and conference/lecture rooms will one day be decided upon by The ORG members. If you decide to become a member and wish to start making suggestions for the ideal infrastructure, please email octagonresearchgroup@gmail.com to be added to a google document where you can make suggestions.
The first Octagon will likely be in an isolated wooded area with the top floor being right above the tree tops. The roof will be a walkable platform with amazing views, including those from a hot tub, and other lounging areas.
Eventually we aim to have multiple Octagons in every US state, and in other countries. Each will have their own personality that matches the location along with their own main research focus. For instance, some will focus heavily on addiction treatment while another might be better suited for environmental harm reduction, and a third might be best suited for researching ways to reduce homelessness.
The math showing the efficiency is truly fascinating. A simple example for this is to allow a maximum of 80 units for perimeter with the following shapes.
35×5 rectangle: 175 sq unit area
30×10 rectangle: 300 sq unit area
20×20 square: 400 sq unit area
Octagon: 482.8 sq units.
Perfect circle: 509.3 sq units.
Although the circle is the most efficient perimeter to area design, it is much more expensive to bend building materials.
Because of this, an octagon would optimize space efficiency/cost and in our opinion, is much more attractive than any other building shape, including those with better efficiency like 10 and 100 sided shapes.
It’s important to note that the octagon area is 1.207 times (or 20.7%) larger than the square area, which has greater efficiency than any rectangle. In fact, most current research is conducted in rectangle shaped buildings. Something we aim to change.
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