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Nesting a group of 3v domes A single geodesic dome makes a fantastic clear span structure but sometimes that's not what we're looking for. What about if we need more floor area but don't have the luxury of making the dome higher, what if we want separate rooms or have an existing dome and want to add an extension. The answer is simple... nest several small domes together. I'm not talking about having tunnels between a group of domes but actually intersecting one dome with another, an example would be the eden project, I don't think they made a terribly neat job of it if you look closely at the picture you can see that the framework on the join doesn't line up that well and a fat gutter has been used to make it look less obvious. Let's look at the problems
 Detail of join from the inside  There are loads of possible layouts from two domes to ten, I've drawn a few in the diagram below. 
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| posted by Rick | 08/04/2011 06:14:08 |
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| Nice! This is what I was looking for. This would work with the GD27plans correct? Very cool. | |
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| posted by jack | 06/12/2011 22:37:56 |
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| Clustering icosahedral domes is somewhat awkward. A much better approach is to use octahedral domes. They cluster naturally. The icosa has several aesthetic and structural advantages, but clustering isn't one of them. Octas can be very nice too, especially at higher frequencies. | |
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| posted by Catherine | 27/06/2012 22:31:57 |
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| Can you attach domes of different sizes (strut length)? Would it just require a larger/wider door frame to connect the two? Or would that be really complicated and thus only same-size domes be used? | |
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