How Do You Build A Geodesic Dome House?
A geodesic dome house can be built more quickly and less expensively than a conventional house, and it makes an appealing and unique living structure. An extremely simple house can be built by making several smaller domes and linking them together, which reduces heating and cooling costs and saves interior space. The average “backyard builder” can make a geodesic dome house in about a week. Decide on a size for the dome house, and select a “degree.” The degree is the amount of complexity in each geodesic dome—the more “chords” (struts) that are in a dome, the higher the degree. The more complex the dome, the harder it will be to build, but it will have a rounder shape. Use the Dome Calculator at desertdomes.com to determine the length of the chords required to construct the dome. Cut the electrical conduit pipe to the lengths given by the calculator. For a second-degree dome, there are two sizes for an A and B chord structure. Third-, fourth-, and fifth-degree domes have exponentiall
