DOOOOOOOOOOOMES.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263864]

Geodesic dome thread.

Designs for hydroponic geodesic home greenhouses. Domed-in tropical biomes in frigid northern climates. Dome houses, dome parks, dome space colonies, dome science bases at the south pole.

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[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263872]

Geodesic domes were developed by R Buckminster Fuller, who patterned them after the molecular structure of what we know as Buckminster Fullerene, or Buckyballs.

They are incredibly durable and mathematically they offer the largest interior volume for the fewest materials.

Bucky originally intended for the idea to lead to low cost housing for the poor.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263883]

Since his death, geodesic domes have been primarily used in large public spaces, to protect parks full of imported plants from harsh local weather, or to build large transparent enclosures at zoos.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263890]

The Eden Project makes use of geodesic domes to enclose three distinct biomes; Desert, tropical jungle and rainforest, all in north Cornwall, England. The flora and fauna were imported and the interiors painstakingly terraformed into copies of the biomes elsewhere on Earth that they represent.

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[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263899]

Geodesic domes make excellent homes, whether rigid panels or a thermally insulating membrane are used. This house more closely resembles a large tent, with sprayed on foam insulation between two layers of flexible synthetic fabric. A geodesic dome house of this type can be assembled within a few days.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263921]

Geodesic domes also make excellent greenhouses, and they can be constructed for vastly cheaper than other types of growing enclosures. A 12 foot diameter dome made from lumber and sheet vectran will cost approximately $650 in materials and can be constructed in just a few hours. They're enormously wind resistant due to the shape and the interior can be conditioned for ideal growing conditions year-round.

[Anonymous No.3263926]

Someone should design a dome structure made of interlocking panels that could easily be assembled by a remote controlled robot. The idea being before they send people back to the moon or mars they could send these robots and panels and have them assembled ahead of time.

[Anonymous No.3263928]

Do it yourself Jme style...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59R6RD0shoU

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263946]

>>3263926

Not a bad idea. The process of large geodesic dome construction involves lifting the dome bit by bit as additional tiers of triangular panels are added. It is well suited to robotic construction.

Pic: The old geodesic science station at the south pole, recently replaced by the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263953]

Here's a movie theater built in the 70s, when geodesic structures were all the rage. Some 300,000 geodesic buildings exist in the US. They were gradually abandoned mainly because in a rectilinear city grid, a dome wastes a lot of space for a given (square) plot of land.

If cities were laid out hexagonally, though....

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263964]

Here's a look at how simple they are to build. This PVC pipe dome greenhouse was built by shearing off either end of pipes of 5 different lengths (for each tier) and drilling a hole in each to bolt them together. Metal domes typically use electrician's pipe instead.

[Anonymous No.3263970]

>>3263926
A benefit to this is that you could disassemble entire buildings and rebuild them somewhere else, or even make them lager or smaller by adding/removing panels.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263982]

The interior of a typical dome house. Not too shabby, eh?

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3263996]

Here's a schematic for a more modest dome house, something potentially portable via helicopter if you wanted to move it from place to place.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264011]

More dome pod dealies, this time in Germany.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264018]

A dome lab/office in the jungle.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264023]

A backyard clubhouse.

[Anonymous No.3264024]

>>3263964

That's a really shitty joint, you could break it by pushing it lol. No better than a tent.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264030]

>>3264024

>>That's a really shitty joint, you could break it by pushing it lol. No better than a tent.

Don't be so sure. Pic related.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264036]

Although of course geodesic tents do exist, and share many of the same benefits.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264042]

Mini geodesic living pods. :3

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264047]

A membrane type geodesic home interior.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264051]

A desert laboratory.

[Anonymous No.3264053]

>>3263953
You could just place the dome atop a rectangular first story.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264056]

A geodesic farm.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264063]

Typical kit-built geodesic home exterior.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264072]

A dome community in the desert.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264080]

A domed tropical resort in northern Germany.

The interior is so huge that due to the artificially warm, humid atmosphere it actually forms its own clouds. Small hot air balloons are used for tours, and for bungee jumping.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands

[Anonymous No.3264076]

>>3264030

Too complex for any benefits. Small scale, fine, you can join it up easily enough with rough cuts and bending it by hand. Large scale building, fuck that, total waste of time.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264094]

>>3264076

>>Large scale building, fuck that, total waste of time.

But large scale is where geodesic domes shine. They offer the largest interior volume for the lowest cost and amount of materials and that advantage scales with the size of the dome.

Pic related

[Anonymous No.3264100]

>>3264080

Ok that's pretty cool

[Anonymous No.3264111]

>>3264094

That pic is not large scale. They're only useful if you need massive open space with no pillars i.e. an aircraft hanger. Otherwise they're more complex to build.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264125]

>>3264111

>>Otherwise they're more complex to build.

Yet require less materials and wind up costing less.

Pic: Not geodesic, but very cool

[Anonymous No.3264129]

>>3264111
The picture makes them look smaller than they actually are. I've been inside them, and they're absolutely fuckhueg.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264143]

>>3264129

>>The picture makes them look smaller than they actually are. I've been inside them, and they're absolutely fuckhueg.

Correct. And awesome.

[Anonymous No.3264154]

>>3263953
>If cities were laid out hexagonally, though....

That would probably help with traffic problems as well, as you would only ever need to deal with three-way intersections.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264188]

>>3264154

...And smaller hexagons could be nested inside of larger ones such that the street network is consistent but can also accommodate smaller domes....

GLORIOUS

[Anonymous No.3264236]

So I understand they enclose a larger amount of space for a cheaper cost, but is any of that extra space functional? I mean, can you have multiple floors in these things?

[Anonymous No.3264249]

>>3264236
Yep.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264252]

>>3264236

>>I mean, can you have multiple floors in these things?

Sure, see: >>3263982

Internal space can be partitioned however you like. If anything it fosters more three dimensional living space design rather than just several identical floors on top of one another.

[Anonymous No.3264253]

>>3264249

Any pics?

[Anonymous No.3264254]

>>3264188
I dunno man, sounds like a nightmare to drive with.

[Anonymous No.3264267]

>>3263872
>who patterned them after the molecular structure of what we know as Buckminster Fullerene

no, that is backwards. Buckminster designed his domes on good engineering principles (maximum volume with minimum surface area, perfect load bearing), and the ability to mass-produce the mostly identical structural elements. The C60 molecules were discovered and named after *his* domes, decades after he made them popular.

[Anonymous No.3264276]

>>3264253
yep.

>>3263996
>>3263982

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264284]

>>3264267

Really? My bad, I'll revise my understanding accordingly. May I have a citation, just to confirm...?

[Anonymous No.3264319]

>>3264284
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene

[Anonymous No.3264327]

>>3264284
lmwptfy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene
>discovered in 1985

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome
>WWI
>experiments in 1949
>patent in 1959

[Anonymous No.3264331]

>>3264125

The materials will either have to be large awkwardly shaped things or lots of smaller, easier to transport pieces but more assembly time.

Their practicality is limited.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264389]

>>3264319

That link doesn't go anywhere. Try it.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264417]

>>3264331

>>The materials will either have to be large awkwardly shaped things or lots of smaller, easier to transport pieces but more assembly time.

>>Their practicality is limited.

Disagree, for the reason you specified; What you haven't thought of is that those triangular panels can be mass produced. You can make lots and lots of domes from the same standardized parts. You ship them in stacks of the various triangle sizes and with the struts necessary to build the skeleton.

It's fine if we disagree, but I really think it's obvious how practical geodesic domes are.

[Anonymous No.3264477]

Do you have any good guides to making a model of one?
I think the domes are a pretty neat concept and would like to try my hand at making one.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3264493]

>>3264477

>>I think the domes are a pretty neat concept and would like to try my hand at making one.

Luckily, there are video tutorials all over Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=building+geodesic+dome&aq=f

[Anonymous No.3264509]

>>3264493
Haha, thanks! Don't know why I didn't think of that ._.