How to Build a Geodesic Dome Model

About Geodesic Domes

Geodesic Dome

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Geodesic domes are an efficient way to make buildings. They are inexpensive, strong, easy to assemble, and easy to tear down. After domes are built, they can even be picked up and moved somewhere else. Domes make good temporary emergency shelters as well as long-term buildings. Perhaps some day they will be used in outer space, on other planets, or under the ocean.

If geodesic domes were made like automobiles and airplanes are made, on assembly lines in large numbers, almost everyone in the world today could afford to have a home.

~by Trevor Blake

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• Get Ready to Build a Geodesic Dome Model
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 1: Make Triangles
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 2: Make 10 Hexagons
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 3: Make 5 Half-hexagons
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 4: Make 6 Pentagons
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 5: Connect Hexagons to a Pentagon
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 6: Connect Five Pentagons to Hexagons
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 7: Connect 6 More Hexagons
• Build a Geodesic Dome Model, Step 8: Connect the Half-hexagons
• About Geodesic Domes