About Easy Domes
Design: Easy Domes (Denmark)
Domes and polyhedron shaped buildings and designs are seen all around the world. Old and ancient examples are mostly churches, minarets, the arctic igloo. Today we have high-tech examples of geodesics from added super-domes in different sizes and materials, to simplified and nature orientated and sustainable buildings.
The structural behavior of Platonic polyhedra - from first experiments and full scale buildings made by Buckminster Fuller, architect and engineer, to other experiments showing the fact, that plate structures are not a type of lattice structure, but a independent type of structure with dual properties to the lattice structures. This was confirmed when the basic equation of stability for plate structures was found.
Plates and lattices are duals like axial and shear forces, like the closed and the open, and in the same way as yin and yang are incompatible, but yet form some interesting combinations.
Conditions of stability to convex singular coherent polyhedra, as combinations of these form the basis for nearly all buildings considered with characteristics of pi-free three dimensional geometry. Topology, stability and geometry are similar seen in quite different levels: The carbon molecule structure with 60 atoms on each vertice - similar to the geometry of the truncated icosahedron. Resent NASA´s Spitzer Space Telescope discovered small "buckeyballs" in space 6.500 light-years away stacked together in enormous structures hundred of millions of miles wide. In the biological world Radiolaria and Foramifera as high frequency plate polyhedra. The structural concept of honeycomb, and maybe a good example of pure plate structure, the sea Urchin.
Introducing the Easy Domes concept, the word easy can be regarded as a key word. The Easy Domes building kits are manufactured as high quality wooden sections ready for mounting at building site. The prefab dome construction is easy to assemble with only steel bolts and nuts. Small prefab domes can be erected by manpower while bigger prefab geodesic domes need a crane. The structure is suitable for all kind of terrain and implementable to any climate condition.
This page will highlight news and developments from around the world - in light of polyhedra to sinus related trans-formations - updated to new concepts, ideas as full scale examples.
The prefab geodesic dome home design offers an easy and quick assembling of the structure. On a timber or concrete basic it takes only one day to raise the building which is made of quality materials: 3x6" and 3x4” timber in pinewood and plywood. All sections are pre manufactured and ready to assemble with nuts and bolts and the sealing with rubber or asphaltpaper. This prefab geodesic dome homes are certified and with quality and precision installation, meet international building standards and rules. Delivery is easy in container and lifting crane is not needed to build structures until 50 SF. The prefab domes are proposed as passive or low-energy solutions with eco friendly energy efficient technology in heating and electricity.
Each prefab dome home is designed and manufactured for personal wishes on room arrangements, windows, in- and out- side building materials, flooring, water- and energy supply a.m.
One prefab geodesic dome-building kit includes the 21 wooden sections, the load construction, and two wall sections for main door. Fittings for mounting the sections are included a delivery.
Special designed windows in hard-wood or aluminum are to each delivery. Here aluminum-skylight are offered too. The needed aluminum flashing for secure against rain, is the third manufactured product.
