Domes? I have to have one. Saw a dome home as a child in a magazine and was hooked. My interest was recently renewed.

What about the interiors though? Are there people that specialize in this? I see a lot about dome frames and delivery charges. I see floor plans mentioned. But nothing so far about the cost of completing the interior. Are there contractors that, once they know the size of the dome, can they easily quote a price for labor and suppplies? Like some kind of modular interior kit they can plug into the size/diameter, once they know it, for 1 or 2 floors?

I guess I'm trying to find out if it is easier than having the interior (floor, all rooms including bathrooms and kitchen...)of a non-dome house done. Or is it exactly the same? All the same steps exactly?

I'm building a dome greenhouse and I would like to know what is the best way to cover my dome with policarbonate panels. How to fix panels between themselfs and prevent leaking of water.
I'm using woden struts and hube system like on my model:

http://wildcatcollectiv.blogspot.com/

I'm also interested how to do that if I have steel pipe struts and glass panels.

Thank you;

In spite of the recent developments with natural desasters, I'm ready to initiate a scientific research and development of a floating domes' colony, fully autonomous (power,heat-cool,sewage), yet able to cluster into "water-towns". Earthquake, flood safe, transportable.

Work includes a prototype development, field tests, load calculations and working project documentation development...

Result should include working prototype, ready to manufacture blueprints and plans.

Seeking grant to work and research.

Anyone who is able to participate or direct is welcome...

Hello everybody,

This is my first posting on a BFI forum, and I would like to open a discussion about Bucky's proposal for a dome over mid-Manhattan.

I'm currently working on an academic paper centered on that project, and I would like it to summarize information that I've found scattered through several sources. There are also some gaps to be filled and questions I have:

1) Are there any other drawings besides the (well-known and widely published) rendering of the dome over an aerial photo? Were plans and sections produced? Are they available for viewing?

2) Is it true that the dome would require the same amount of steel it took to build the Queen Mary? I came across this information once, but am now unable to trace the source.

I'm interested in building a small dome based on the "plydome" design but I can't find instructions anywhere.

I don't know that I'll actually use plywood, but rather some other more weather resistant material. I like the idea of creating geodesic structures using indentically-sized flexible panels.

Math is definitely not my strong suit so it's tough to wrap my head around modifying available dome plans to use rectangular or circular panels.

Any advice or links on this subject will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Josh

I am happy to announce the acceptance of the patent application for our invention, the ARCX building System Architecture Resistant to Climatic eXtremes. A very talented mathmatician, Brigitte Sevatius of WPI, performed magic to give me the formula for the derived triangle that results when you distort the vertices of a Icosahedron, a dodecahedron and the vertices formed by the rhombito all lie on a single sphere. It is a beautiful thing, a perfect hemispere with angles and dihedral angles to 10 decimals.

I am in the Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) industry which is one of the stronngest, most energy efficient ways to build. We start with a 8' x 24' slab of high tech EPS, OSB, glue and pressure to form one very strong laminate. Now I take the CNC computer code for my magic triangle to several SIP manufacturers to set up for production. We use a 8 1/4" thick R-32 panel and get 6 triangles per blank with about 1% waste.

I Hope you don't mind me posting this note but wondered if you could help.

I am currently making a programme for HGTV (Home and Garden TV) about unique and unusual homes and I am desperately trying to find an unusual geodesic home in Europe either in Italy, Switzerland, Holland, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany and Czech and I was wondering if you may know of any I could contact?

We are going to be filming in January and I am looking to find one of these amazing houses to film for 1 day with English speaking owners. I am also looking in Australia and New zealand so if anyone knows of anyone I may contact I would be very grateful. Please email jo.clark@pioneertv.com

Joe Clinton's Equal Central Angle Conjecture about Goldberg polyhedrons is front page at the moment on bfi.org.

Adrian Rossiter has made some new computer images of a 15 frequency tetrahedral Goldberg and a 20 frequency icosahedral Goldberg. I'm placing them here in the dome section for obvious reasons. Nice work, Adrian and Joe! Next is a mathematical proof. Any volunteers?

Rossiter wrote:
"I made my program more efficient, using a different algorithm, and it turns out that this Goldberg doesn't have a minimum edge length.

Here is one with a shorter edge length (all equal to 10 significant figures) and a good tesselation"

Hi, all!
First post here! We have a 40foot 5v 3/4 inch conduit dome that we'd like to remove a section from for a door. The opening amounts to an elongated hexagon two courses up from the bottom opposite one pentagon. We're wondering if you have to match the geometry of door frame with single piece of reinforced steel or whether there's a simpler system that will work. Any input would be greatly helpful. Thanks!
Dan

At Truro, MA on Cape Cod there is an old dew (distant early warning) radar dome now used by the FAA which has a skin without any triangles in it. Besides the regular pentagons there are unique elongated irregular hexagons.
I have found a few photos of other domes like this on the Internet. To see a couple of these images just do a GOOGLE Image search for "Radar Dome Bergen". However, these pictures do not show the overall pattern especially well.
Besides the icosahedral placement of the regular pentagons, just what is the arrangement of these irregular hexagons?