He has been offering the following plans for many years, and with great success to clients around the world. All plans available in PDF format from:. Geo-dome also offers multiple tutorial videos such as the one below to show you how simple building your own geodesic dome can be. This is a 3m diameter high profile dome, very easy to build because it only has two different frames to make. If you are new to dome building this design is a great way to get into domes without any complex joinery.
Plans for this dome in diameters from 3m up to about 4. Click here for more information. Plans for our famous 4. These plans show everything you need to know to build one really cool greenhouse. You will need some accurate wood machining facilities and a few basic woodworking tools to build this kit. Construction details and building tips are included to help make your dome building project run smoothly.
Plans include full instructions and measurements with email support if you need help while you build. With our custom design aluminum profiles, one can quickly build multipurpose spaces and cover the dome frame with any solid panel or membranes.
Our designs make it easier for everyone to build multipurpose structures and cover them with any preferred material. Covering the geodesic dome frames built with flat surface struts is a challenge for dome builders. The drawback is the irregular angles of the interconnecting surfaces. Our geodesic dome frame design allows you to build multipurpose structures easily, with a superior flexibility to cover the structure with any preferred material. The aluminum shell makes the structure lightweight enough to make it portable and strong enough to make it everlasting.
Besides, the embedded components make your dome resistant to all types of weather. This all-in-one solution is designed and manufactured to build habitats of the future. You can demount and reinstall this everlasting frame for years. We have designed our frames ready to mount triangular panels cut out of any material.
Our patent-pending T profile aluminum struts extruded at multiple angles unites with aluminum hubs perfectly. Wood, metal, plexiglass, aluminum, plywood, composite, biocomposite, recycled plastic, or any variants of these solid panels will fit perfectly as the covering material. From the very beginning, we aimed for a watertight structure when the panels were installed correctly. We made our profile design accordingly. An EPDM seal with biodegradable elements added if possible with superior resistance to heat, water, ozone, UV, and weather conditions will be provided with the frame kit.
We also made room on the profile for those who prefer to use silicone or similar sealants. Aluminum is one of the lightest engineering metals, having the strength to weight ratio superior to steel. Therefore, a geodesic structure uses a series of short, interconnected straight lines to approximate a spherical or rounded surface. Another good example of a geodesic structure might be a soccer ball, which is spherical in shape but which is composed of geometric panels hexagons and pentagons.
You can think of the edges of the hexagons and pentagons as straight lines which are interconnected to form the soccer-ball sphere. A geodesic dome, like the playdome pictured above, is built out of interconnected straight bars. Bucky Fuller built many domes using geodesic principles, including a foot diameter dome for the World's Fair in Montreal, Canada. The advantages of a geodesic dome are that it is lightweight, easy to construct out of component parts, is resistant to wind and shocks, and can be built in almost any size, from a small jungle gym to an enormous hangar for housing airplanes.
Fuller himself lived in a dome home while he was a research professor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale from Fuller's patent on the geodesic dome structure in architecture predated a fascinating discovery in the field of chemistry during the s of a spherical carbon molecule whose structure bore a striking resemblance to Fuller's geodesic domes.
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