NASArchitects / Neil Andrew Spacey

I designed a geodesic dome house at EcoDysgu  a couple of years back which was the first time I’d properly explored Buckmisnter Fuller & his theories. I was friends with his great niece [Hi Tracey!] at Oxford Brookes university in 1998, I remember playful talk of ‘Uncle Buck’!?!, but never looked beyond the iconic images [like 'dymaxion house'- saw the original full size mock-up at an exhibition in NYC last year on holiday - I'll post interesting stuff from the exhibition later] or ‘got’ geodesics until this recent project.

Geodesics hold so much potential in terms of maximum enclosure for minimum use of materials. Sure they’re unashamedly rational & geometric, but beautiful too I reckon.

These sketches are just me playing around – a geodesic shell  extrapolated from the 12m dome designs I prepared at EcoDysgu  [I'll dig these out too & post with some useful geodesic links], they (more…)