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Some lunatic built a geodescic loft office pod for some reason.
I think this was the second time he built a geodesic dome and the first failed.
Doing everything from scratch was definitely the hard way and seemingly inadvisable for a large project when he hadn't successfully built a geodesic dome before:
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02-12-2025, 04:42 PM
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Not sure it was truly geodesic. freebeard would know, but appears lacking to me. Is a bunch of triangles stuck together.
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02-12-2025, 05:07 PM
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I wasn't going to watch, but you made me look.
Brags about his architectural chops as he bends an angle bracket with pliers.
"That looks like a lot of tedious work" Agreed.
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Piotrsko -- He started with correct geometry and added complexity. Each hub has twelve or fourteen parts, each strut has two parts. The strut parts weren't properly beveled. A single piece rabbeted at the proper angels would serve better and simplify the hubs.
Domes gain strength from tighter tolerances, he had to loosen his for assembly.
And that desk! A U-shaped desk would give much more usable space.
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Want to know something ask an expert. Thanks freebeard
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I got to thinking: The fundamental thing is that there are generally two ways to fabricate a dome -- panels and strut/skin. This design finds a middle ground, struts made of panels then skinned.
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Since Xist brought the subject up (thnx) here's someone with a big CNC investment that knows what their doing. Instead of screws in the middle of sheets and acrylic that slides around, a vacuum bed:
This is from PDX CNC. Interesting.
Notice the how the geodesic panels are finished and assembled. One could flange clear acrylic sheets.
Stewart Hicks explains the downfall of panel construction: How Caulk Replaced Craft in Architecture
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Building a geodesic dome from scratch, especially without prior experience, is definitely an ambitious move. There’s a reason most people use kits or pre-designed plans—it saves a ton of trial and error. Still, you have to respect the determination, even if the first attempt didn’t go as planned.
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