EFFICIENT ENGINEERED GEODESIC DOMES

Framing Base To GeoDome Vertically,

utilizing the Cretean Cross in the curve.

Atlantean Style Base Support

I am very pleased to announce that in developing a special base pattern, there was found a way to maximize the interior space for a hemi-sphere dome, while allowing for the continuous building of both upper frames and lower freestanding supports in circumfrencial sections, which are bridged.

EFFICIENT ENGINEERED GEODESIC DOMES

Above head (standing) Lofts

Interior Temperatures:
While it was 10` in February of 2007, in NE Ohio, it was 60` inside; and the following summer, in July when it was 90` (in the same area) it was 79` inside due to how the form of the geodesic regulates heat when it is insulated. Within 3-years time, I was able to build, and rebuild the same geodesic dome over again, with different BASE Types. Every dome I've produced has been structurally tested: On an inclined plane with hurricane winds 75-100 mph. In the Nevada desert, in a sand storm with 100 mph winds, still standing!

EFFICIENT ENGINEERED GEODESIC DOMES

My 1st geodesic dome: Revised

It is my model, 12-foot diameter, office-efficiency; an area for one person means that the BASE (lower part) and the half-sphere (upper part) needed to be about the same size.

EFFICIENT ENGINEERED GEODESIC DOMES

Smooth laminated hubs

I measured all the parts for the Icosahedron in a day, and cut them all to specs within hours. Then came the decision to notch each strut piece a certain way so as to place them onto hubs, which only takes a few hours out of a day per set. I used smooth and thin, laminated, 7-layer plywood (1/2-inch thick) for 50 hubs, so that each frame of the dome will quickly slide together; and be built in less than an hour. And that is exactly what happened the 1st time I ever built a geodesic dome.

Landing Site

The next phase of human compact aerospace transport. An aluminum plated, insulated landing module or an office efficiency.

Based upon the experience of modelling, building, and living in my own Geodesic Dome.

Aerodynamic framing

In a commercial lot.

Here is the pentagonal hatched aero-frame of an intended Landing Module, shuttlecraft. And (below) the progression of this frame into that type of craft on pylons.

EFFICIENT ENGINEERED GEODESIC DOMES

THINKING AT THE MARGINS

here is a cutaway view (above) of my famous 12-foot diameter geodesic dome. Insulated walls, a sealed hard floor, hard-plated roof area, skylight-vented, with a standup doorframe, and vinyl tarp protected.