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How To Build A Geodesic Dome?

Cardboard Geodesic Dome

  • I want to build a small, inexpensive geodesic dome using cardboard. Where can I find good specs and instructions? Is this even feasible with regular cardboard? The idea is to build a small dome with friends at a minimal cost with inexpensive materials. The idea is to make one that is 5-6 feet in diameter. I do not know of any books by Bucky Fuller that actually give out this information. I plan on doing during the Winter Solstice and have great fun doing it.

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    http://www.monkeyc.org/dome/ on the search string "small cardboard geodesic dome".

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This isn't cardboard (apologies for the semi-derail right off the bat!), but I recently saw a bamboo & wood geodesic dome that was about 20' in diameter. It had been built with long bamboo poles as the main beams, and connected with spokes made of .5" wood bound together with either wire or rope (I forget which). Because bamboo is so invasive, you can probably find a ton of it for free if you post an ad on craigslist or freecycle, though the catch is you'll surely have to cut it down yourself.

soviet sleepover

http://desertdomes.com/dome2calc.html focuses mainly on strut-hub construction but triangles with properly proportioned edges can just be taped together.

aubilenon

The monkeyc site was the subject of a http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/49148 which contains some more links to dome information.

Mitheral

Looks like this could be a good resorce for you: http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq-4.html (Looks like info is pretty old, but a good place to start & for background.) Main page is here: http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq.html Enjoy!

davidinmanhattan

Instead of paper cardboard, try to find some of those corrugated plastic signs on telephone poles. They'll hold up to the weather and you'll be doing everyone a favor by removing them.

Frank Grimes

Yeehah! Thanks for the input.

goalyeehah

The technical/product name for the plastic corrugated signboard, BTW, is Plasticor. It is weather resistant, and you should be able to crease it like cardboard as well, by tapping it with a metal yardstick and a mallet.

jimfl

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