Lately, we have been entirely engulfed with our new favorite project, which is making 3V geo domes, that we will use as bungalows on our land. There are a few reasons why we started looking at the geo dome structure, First off the time to build them is about two weeks for a complete bungalow, and the fact that its priced about half as much when its done is also a plus. Our workers looked at us as if we were idiots when we showed them the plans, and how to make them, but three hours later when the actual structure was put together and eight of them were sitting on top, they were happy as pie. The plan is to continue to develop this kind of building using local materials such as wood and bamboo, and help the locals build safe secure houses for themselves.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about Geo(deistic) Domes.
A geodesic dome is a spherical or partial-spherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles (geodesics) lying on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and also distribute the stress across the entire structure.
The term “dome” refers to an enclosed structure and should not be confused with non-enclosed geodesic structures such as geodesic climbers found on playgrounds.
Typically the design of a geodesic dome begins with an icosahedron inscribed in a sphere, tiling each triangular face with smaller triangles, then projecting the vertices of each tile to the sphere. The endpoints of the links of the completed sphere would then be the projected endpoints on the sphere’s surface. If this is done exactly, each of the edges of the sub-triangles is a slightly different length, so it would require a very large number of links of different sizes. To minimize the number of different sizes of links, various simplifications are made. The result is a compromise consisting of a pattern of triangles with their vertices lying approximately on the surface of the sphere. The edges of the triangles form approximate geodesic paths over the surface of the dome that distribute its weight.
Geodesic designs can be used to form any curved, enclosed space. Oddly-shaped designs would require calculating for and custom building of each individual strut, vertex or panel—resulting in potentially expensive construction. Because of the expense and complexity of design and fabrication of any geodesic dome, builders have tended to standardize using a few basic designs.
Lately, we have been entirely engulfed with our new favorite project, which is making 3V geo domes, that we will use as bungalows on our land. There are a few reasons why we started looking at the geo dome structure, First off the time to build them is about two weeks for a complete bungalow, and the fact that its priced about half as much when its done is also a plus. Our workers looked at us as if we were idiots when we showed them the plans, and how to make them, but three hours later when the actual structure was put together and eight of them were sitting on top, they were happy as pie. The plan is to continue to develop this kind of building using local materials such as wood and bamboo, and help the locals build safe secure houses for themselves.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about Geo(deistic) Domes.
A geodesic dome is a spherical or partial-spherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles (geodesics) lying on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and also distribute the stress across the entire structure.
The term “dome” refers to an enclosed structure and should not be confused with non-enclosed geodesic structures such as geodesic climbers found on playgrounds.
Typically the design of a geodesic dome begins with an icosahedron inscribed in a sphere, tiling each triangular face with smaller triangles, then projecting the vertices of each tile to the sphere. The endpoints of the links of the completed sphere would then be the projected endpoints on the sphere’s surface. If this is done exactly, each of the edges of the sub-triangles is a slightly different length, so it would require a very large number of links of different sizes. To minimize the number of different sizes of links, various simplifications are made. The result is a compromise consisting of a pattern of triangles with their vertices lying approximately on the surface of the sphere. The edges of the triangles form approximate geodesic paths over the surface of the dome that distribute its weight.
Geodesic designs can be used to form any curved, enclosed space. Oddly-shaped designs would require calculating for and custom building of each individual strut, vertex or panel—resulting in potentially expensive construction. Because of the expense and complexity of design and fabrication of any geodesic dome, builders have tended to standardize using a few basic designs.
-Sam
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