I'm getting ready to list a residential Dome Home for sale in West Grove PA. The seller and I are trying to figure out if this is a Fuller designed home or not. This seller is the second owner of the home so they do not have the blue prints. Any ideas on how we can verify the designer? The room over the garage was an addition and not part of the original structure.

I help take care of a geodesic dome that is 30 years old. It is about 30 ft in diameter and is sheathed in cedar shingles that go right to the ground. The dome needs new sheathing and rather than sheath is right to the ground (where animals find easy access to the wall cavity) I want to remove the bottom 16” to 20” of the dome and fill the space with block. What I don’t know however is if removing those 16” or 20” will affect the integrity of the structure. Does anyone have an answer to this question or can you direct me to someone who may?

Ron

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Does no one produce the printed cardboard patterns for the Fuller paperboard (cardboard) domes, ref. pattent #2881717 ? I'm imagining purchasing a "bale" of corrugated sheets with the patterns printed on them for a hexa-pent dome — simply cut, fold, and staple together a dome! Wouldn't that be great!?

Selling a Natural Spaces dome connector kit. If interested, please contact me for more information. The Natural Spaces dome web site would be a good place to start if you are not familiar with this kit. Located in Southern Maine, USA

I recently pulled the shipping manifesto and this is the information on this kit:
(1) Dome Home model 1800 49' dia mid profile 4 opening for extensions, 15" Super-Wal View Cupola
(1) Dome Home model 1250 40' dia low profile 3 opening for extensions, 15" Super-Wal, Vent Cupola

I am trying to create a drawing of a Geodesic dome with 12 divisions of the base of the coupled sperical equilateral triangles.
I could draw the dome with all the strut segments as explained in some notes I had with me.
The strut lenghts match
I am trying to calculate the degrees at which the strut lengths meet so that I can design a node which can join the five and six struts ( as in a space frame ball.)
I have found out that the degrees in the strut lengts vary from 53 to 65 degrees and that I will have to design 13 diffrent kinds of nodes to make this dome

Private long driveway to secluded private home with treetop views. This sophisticated geodesic home sits on almost 2 acres on a cul-de-sac street. Backyard abuts conservation land. Great new construction potential. Close to Armonk, Bedford and Greenwich, CT. Come see this oasis for yourself. Call for details. Motivated seller.

Please call Robin Lynch, Teardowns.com, at 914-315-6182 or email me at rlynch@teardowns.com for more details.

I want to construct a 15m diameter, frequency 3, 4/9 truncation geodesic dome entirely of thick walled (ideally 200-300 mm S grade Polystyrene) panels. The panels will be longitudinally finger jointed (a sinusoidal wave pattern of 25mm depth) along their edges so that once the dome is completed a single panel would be mechanically held in place and could not be dislodged even if there was localised failure of the

Having to add a permanent heating and cooling system to the Dome will be quite a trick. I had hoped to use radiant heating, maybe hooked to a geothermal system, but the cost will be way to much. I left space in the floor as I built because I didn't realize that I should have put the tubes in the cement base as I poured the original floor. Now I have sections of six inch rises and 4 inch rises. I was going to put 2 inches of insulation down and tubing and then pour cement on top. So much for trying to fix my mistakes.

American Ingenuity, Inc.


Manufactures dome building kits which use a system of pre-finished component panels.
The panel consists of steel reinforced concrete, 7" thick block of E.P.S. insulation
and interior wall board. DIY or hire the Kit Assembly Consultant. Stock, Modified
or Custom Floor Plans available. The dome comes with a guarantee that it will
withstand hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes with no structural damage. Shell
Kit Assembly time with the Consultant is 7 to 21 days. Building types: 22',27',30',

Hi,
I'm about to start my dissertation on the effects of holes and openings in Geodesic Domes. I have never dealt with geodesic domes in the past, and have little/no experience in the structural analysis of them.

There isn't a lot of information in my uni library, and am wondering if anyone knows of any good literature on the subject. Even if you know of any good books on the subject of geodesic domes would help greatly.

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks very much,
Andrew

hi,
i designed a typeface a few years ago, imposing the rules of the c60 / buckyball structure to letters etc, with the nodes and connectors becoming the design of the letterforms.
i'm looking to return to it in the near future, completing a lower case, and improving the upper case.
i was contacted a while back about using it on a book cover about buckyballs / rbf etc, which didnt amount to anything in the end, so i thought i'd post a pdf of it here, to see if anyone's interested in it in any way.
thanks
james

I would like to start a talk about the following:

The possibilities of Designing and Constructing a Monolithic Glass or Growth Crystal Dome. The ultimate goal is to have a relatively self-sustaining stable environment, capable of supporting a population of 500 to 2500 inhabitants, with a micro economy for basic support and trade internally and externally. so we are talking here of a rather large dome with a ground base diameter of from 500 to 1500 meters. This will most likely turn out to be a true half dome, with a possible portion under ground elevation.

Does anyone know where you can get kit domes in Europe?

Thanks,

Lloyd

First of all, i want to apologise because of my horrible english, i´m from Spain and i´m not used to write in this language.
I´m trying to project a stand made of glass spheres.
Each sphere has different radius and they are conected between them.
The glass is curved, and the stand has to be portable, so the structure mustn´t be fixed.