Comprehensive - Buckminster Fuller - Geodesic Dome
Talking About Material of Geodesic Dome
The philosopher, inventor, and architect Buckminster Fuller created a stunning architectural structure that known as, Geodesic dome. He studied the structure of shells and networking with economical cost, lighter, and stronger than traditional wood, brick, and any other stone building materials.
An invention was made to adapt to a nature environment by creating a spherical spider’s web structure because of its high strength to the weight ratio. Geodesic dome made of triangular elements that forming a great structural strength while using the least material. The similarity of the triangles shape makes the domes easier to construct and benefits by being structurally stronger.
The most impressive building among all of his geodesic dome was the eye-catching US Pavilion at Expo ‘67, the World Fair that held in Montreal. It captured the attention of futuristic architects around the world and originally sheathed in a thin acrylic and aluminum aircraft tubing but it was destroyed by fire in 1976. It has a visually more solid than the version that we experienced today. However, its represent a structural nakedness, that creates a beautifully transparency architectural design.
But on another hand, this spherical structure may also cause an efficiency problem in furnishing the spaces, because it will be hard to have a squares furniture into a round plan structure. The amateur domes also tended to leak when it rained, insufficient use of insulation that limited the energy efficiency, and inadequate numbers of skylights left interiors dreary. Moreover, the transparency outer structure of Geodesic domes gives beautiful looks and efficient in energy savings by having a full skylight view of the transparency structure. But it may cause non-privacy design toward the purpose of each building. However, this Geodesic dome is one of the best solutions to help a broken world with a quick, cheap, reliable, and self-supporting structure that can be easily constructed with a minimal amount of material.
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