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Geodesic Dome Structures
This presentation can be downloaded from www.ajbooker.co.uk along with many other free resources
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What’s a Dome?
• Domes are curved structures
• They protect something inside them
• They can be made in one piece like a shell
• They can also be made from triangles and are then called Geodesic (Jee-O-Dess-ikk) domes
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Who invented them?
Shell Domes occur naturally
Their shape gives them strength and many creatures from tortoises to sea urchins use dome shapes for their protection
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Manufactured Domes• Buckminster Fuller, an American Engineer,
invented the geodesic dome in the 1950’s
• Geodesic domes are made from separate pieces of ‘material’ arranged in triangles, pentagons and hexagons
• The position of the shapes and their sizes is critical and needs Maths to work it out
• Geodesic Domes are the strongest lightweight structures you can make
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This is an example of a Geodesic dome
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How a Dome is made
Pieces of stiff material are joined at the corners to
make stable triangle shapes
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Here a simple dome is made up of two different length materials
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Geometric Shapes in the dome
Hexagonal shape
Pentagonal shape
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Real Life Domes
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Building big domes