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This article discusses the use of digital technology in the design and construction of a geodesic dome built in a student workshop as the bearing structure for an artificial sky lighting installation. Digital tools were used for the whole process from preliminary to detailed design, fabrication and assembly, in order to allow the investigation and precise representation of the geodesic geometry. However, limited possibilities, in combination with the intrinsic nature of the geometry, which allowed segregation of tasks, did not permit a full exploration of the potential of the digital continuum at that time; even though taking advantage of digital technologies, the process maintained some of its linear characteristics. A couple of years after the successful completion of the installation, the project is ‘revisited’ in retrospect, and the design process is ‘reengineered’ considering the design potential of recent advances in digital technology. In this work in progress, an attempt is ...

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- Geodesic Dome, Digital Tools

This article presents the design and construction process of a geodesic dome built in a student workshop as the bearing structure for an artificial sky lighting installation. The applied methods and tools are discussed as a case-study of an educational module providing not only significant input for the specific type of structures and related technologies, but, furthermore, giving valuable feedback to future practicing engineers.

- by Maria Vrontissi
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- Workshops, Geodesic Dome, Artificial Sky

Sometimes artefacts that had been designed with a scientific purpose turn into cultural icons that influence art and architecture, mainly because the viewer’s relationship with the work and the very act of receiving it is quite different. In this way, the receiver extracts same of the properties of the original artefact and uses them in other prototype that appears in a completely different way to our eyes. This is the case with the first hemispherical dome using a system of metal bars connected by pin-joints made by the Zeiss Company headquartered in Jena, Germany, designed by its chief engineer Walter Bauersfeld, and its reception some years later by the artistic and architectural avant-garde.

- by Martino Peña Fernandez-Serrano and +1
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- Architectural History, Geodesic Dome
- by Maria Vrontissi
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- Workshops, Geodesic Dome, Artificial Sky

While the dome form has existed since antiquity and enjoyed a brief period of popularity as a housing form during the mid to late twentieth century, its round shape still remains a distinct outsider in the world of architecture, a quirk relegated to hippies, vacation homes, and sports arenas. This despite the fact that the American Institute of Architects called the dome “the strongest, lightest and most efficient means of enclosing space known to man,” a fact that might make them more appealing in an age of increased natural disasters and rising housing costs. These traits have led to acclamations of domes as the “next big thing” in housing since Buckminster Fuller introduced the form to the American market in the post-war period, a time when their seeming inevitability as the “house of the future” led to the form being employed for everything from the Montreal Biosphere for Expo ’67 to EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth to Luke Skywalker’s home in Star Wars. They have also frequently been touted for disaster relief, touting the savings of energy, water, and materials as well as easy maintenance and simple construction. This paper explores the cultural history of dome housing, their architectural and environmental benefits and drawbacks, and their current place in the housing market.

- by Jeremy Ebersole
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- Architectural Engineering, American History, American Studies, Architecture

Why did domes and shacks figure so large for the Hippie countercultural builders of the 1960s and 1970s? In this chapter for the 2012 PM Press / Retort book West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, I argue that domes (symbols of the ideal) and shacks (pragmatic shelters) offered a dialectic through which countercultural builders could reflect on their interactions with a world they were trying to change. Drawing on a deep intellectual ancestry from Pragmatism and Transcendentalism, this exploration of the dialectic of the ideal and pragmatic was more sophisticated than a druggy escapism, and can even be related to some of the reflections upon our relationship to Nature found in the philosophy of the Frankfurt School.

- by Simon Sadler
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- Pragmatism, Architecture, Design History, Countercultural Studies

In this paper, comparison of geodesic dome is carried out for 20 meter diameter and class 1 division methods. Class1 method1 and class1 method2 both are used for different frequencies. Model of dome is generated in CADRE GEO 7.0 software. Analysis and design is carried out by STAAD Pro V8i SS5. Optimization is performed using STAAD in-built optimization tool.

- by Satyen Ramani
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- Geodesic Dome, Domo Geodesico Invernadero
- by Maria Vrontissi and +1
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- Geodesic Dome, Digital Tools

The table top parallels Earth’s curvature and thus the paper on it is curved, and so too is the straight line you drew (opposite legs of the table are vertical, i.e. in plumb, hence radial to Earth’s centre and not parallel to each other). There is no escape – even a laser-drawn straight line in outer space is curved because Einsteinian space is curved. In the definition of the straight line (the shortest distance between two points no ‘straightness’ is specified. When airlines fly on shortest routes to economise on fuel, the ‘curved’ geodesic pathways they follow are geometrically straight.

- by H. Masud Taj
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- Architecture, Buckminster Fuller, Ecology, Geometry