The Dome Builder's Handbook

The Dome Builder's Handbook

Author: John Prenis

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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This book is for people who want to build their own domes. It's also for those who are interested in domes and want to learn more about them.


How to Design and Build Your Dome Home

How to Design and Build Your Dome Home

Author: Gene Hopster

Publisher: Hp Books

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780895861009

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Shows sample dome house designs, explains how they can be modified, and suggests how to build and heat a dome house economically.


Charas, the Improbable Dome Builders

Charas, the Improbable Dome Builders

Author: Syeus Mottel

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780877494904

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"Pioneer Works Press, in partnership with The Song Cave, is pleased to present the release of CHARAS: The Improbable Dome Builders, by Syeus Mottel (2017), a fascinating account of six ex-gang members who broke ground to construct a geodesic dome on a vacant lot in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge after a 1970 meeting with the celebrated and revolutionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller, also known as Bucky. Originally published in 1973, this republication speaks to the issues at the heart of the CHARAS project as gentrification seems to multiply faster than communities can work to preserve themselves against it. The book acts as a record to highlight ways people have united to activate empty spaces before gentrification. As a group, CHARAS was interested in physically altering the housing conditions in their immediate neighborhood, the Lower East Side. Influenced by Bucky's teachings, the young men of CHARAS began a period of devoted study to solid geometry, spherical trigonometry, and the principles of dome building. Following this period, CHARAS developed a program that encouraged community autonomy and the reclaiming public space. More than simply a documentation of the project, the book offers stories, profiles, interviews, and images, and the group's process from their intensive study to the obstacles they faced while physically constructing domes."--pioneerworks.org


Build a Geodesic Dome Greenhouse

Build a Geodesic Dome Greenhouse

Author: Pru Garcia

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-21

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781542616843

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Have you ever wanted to build a geodesic dome greenhouse but didn't think you could? Have you been detoured because of the cost? Maybe you're not handy at building things? This book shows you how to make your dream a reality.This book will show you how to easily build any size geodesic dome greenhouse. Using simple tools, and the help of one or two people, you can build a beautiful greenhouse like the one on the cover. All the math is already done for you and you don't need to make any fancy angle cuts. The dome is made of 1�" Schedule 40 pvc and is very strong. The covering is UV rated and will withstand wind, rain and snow. At a cost that blow you away! So don't wait any longer. Build your dream greenhouse and start growing your own veggies!


Cosmometry

Cosmometry

Author: Marshall Lefferts

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04-17

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781733697705

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A Unified Model of Cosmic Geometry, Physics, Music and Consciousness


Simple Shelters

Simple Shelters

Author: Jonathan Horning

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-11-03

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 080271773X

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A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning explores materials and construction principles over millennia, including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.


Geodesic Math and How to Use It

Geodesic Math and How to Use It

Author: Hugh Kenner

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-10-20

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780520239319

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In 1976 literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for the construction of geodesic domes, which had been invented 25 years previously by R. Buckminster Fuller. Now returned to print for the first time since 1990.


Shelter

Shelter

Author: Lloyd Kahn

Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0936070110

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Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to "housecars"; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even treehouses. The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment - with fascinating, often surprising results.