by Amila Y'Mech
Publication date: October 2011• ISBN 978-1-907132-34-6 • 204pp
• £18.99
This book focusses on the art of generating dome geometry, from which domes of all shapes and sizes can be constructed. The book takes the art of dome building far beyond the conventional icosahedral hemisphere: it will show you how to generate elliptical, conical, parabolic and many other forms of dome; domes shaped to fit any footprint; domes based on any of the platonic and archimedean solids; as well as prisms and antiprisms, flat based domes at any truncation, multiple layer domes — and more....
Geodesic Domes offers a vista for the dome designer which is
almost infinite - the more experienced will find that this book will expand
their range of competence way beyond what is presently available in other
books on geodesic dome design. But the book is also accessible to the layman,
no specialist knowledge nor mathematical skills are needed to benefit from
it.
From architects to enthusiasts, this book is for anyone interested in generating
space frame configurations using Formian Software, which accompanies the book
on a CD. “Formian has been created so that people can get on and create
beautiful structures without having to do all the longhand, time consuming
mathematical working out.”