I bought 5 acres and almost have it payed off. I want to build one of these on it. All the plans online cost $$$. are there any websites that have geodesic dome cabin (or just small homes in general) plans for free? I poured the foundation piers over a year ago, so it'll be built on a deck like pic related.
>>2881900why not build a square? it's simpler and better in almost every way. Either way you should probably get the free fusion license and sketch something up.
>>2881900Are you really unwilling to pay $75 for a set of plans? What else are you going to cut corners on?
>>2881900show us your round furniture designs
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>>2882040I'm sure it sounded better in your head
>>2882031I probably will. I just always save money where I can. I work concrete and boss man doesn't care if I take a board or two every now and then. I've built up a quite a supply of materials. >>2881948You're probably right. This should just be a shed. Thanks for telling me about Fusion.
>>2882050>>2882058you designed these?
>>2882080Yes, when I was three or four years old.
>>2882062you're welcome. it's crazy how many people aren't aware they can get perhaps the best modelling software for free, and instead use shit like freecad.
>>2882110cad is designed for parts manufacturing, not buildings
>>2882230I've drawn furniture in it, how's a house different.
We have lots of these where I live, hippies build them for each other. You would be better asking the other hippies for help.There are three major considerations1. quality of structure2. price of structure3. value of structureThe best value structure won't be pretty, it will be a shanty.The highest quality build will just be a one room house that costs five times more per square meter than a regular house.The lowest cost structure is a tent.I would recomend laying a cement slab, building a besser block wall, a simple angled roof, tar paper. You can then render it with cement and paint it, install stoves, vent fans, lean-to sheds and porches. but importantly the structure remains useful as time goes on.Rather than just keep addiging to this structure over and over you just build something else and this becomes your garage/workshop, which on a large property you will need
>>2882031>What else are you going to cut corners on?He can't, it's a dome.
>>2882031Weird how domies are all in with their 'perfect shape'... and then inevitably wimp out on the door and make it a normal rectangle.
There's plenty of information about geodesic domes online for free. Choose some materials, start cutting struts and panels, and just get to work.Our old friend Jaimie Mantzel, the king of DIY, built a three-story dome out of steel tubing more than a decade ago:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gePIc6xXXAThis webpage also looks promising for finding strut lengths:https://simplydifferently.org/Geodesic_Dome_Notes?page=2>>2883070You are right. More geodesic nerds should address this.
>>2883070Hinging and swing are more tricky than it first appears. Static loads can also be an issue. If I were to use one as a house, I'd make a traditional base as an entry and service level and then use a staircase to ascend up to the dome level.
>>2881900you use domes as a greenhouse around your regular built house so you can have a small livable area that includes a garden in a place with shitty climate. That is the point being able to be "outside" yet warm, and to be able to use regular materials for the house
My dad and his friend made a dome house in the 80s in Florida and it's still standing I wish there were more of them scattered around
Also works well in cold climates:https://www.klikk.no/bolig/arkitektur/ja-det-er-en-glasskuppel-du-ser-2290566
>>2884232I've been looking at greenhouse domes and other houses in greenhouses because winter is so fuckin dark and cold and depressing here in the North.But I am damned to live in an apartment for now and the odds of me moving to Japan are about the same as me getting a house so we will see what happens
>>2881900I don't think you're serious OP>First resulthttps://geo-dome.co.uk/3v_tool.asp
Just buy a yurt
>>2884585oh man, i remember trying to assemble one of these at burning man with 8 people. shit gets heated real fast
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>>2882230>Computer Aided Design>only partsIn the 1950s you'd be saying "hey you can't draw a house on this sheet of paper"
>>2881900>All the plans online cost $$$Wait till you find how much it's going to cost just to weather proof it. Wait until 20 years down the line when you go to do maintenance on it and no one will quote you.>>2882230What do you think they make the blueprints with? How else do you think they design modern houses to be a planned obsolescent piece of shit?>>2885680In the 1950's he would be handed a hand drafted one of these with written instructions and notable measures and would be expected to visualize it in 3d himself.
>>2885738>he would be handed a hand drafted one of theseForgot pic. Really nothing much has changed about the way they draft up floor plans. The "height" more or less of a given, generally it's 8 feet.
Theory and executionBoards aren't straight. Corners aren't 90. Buildings largely arent square. Foundations settle. This doesnt become a nightmare when using rectangles and squares. This does become a nightmare in dome land.Also, as you build a rectangle, you can pretty easily check the square by going corner to corner, and make sure you are good. In dome land, what even is corner to corner?The first building i lived in i build was an octagon. The 135 degree angles were hard to get right.My current house is a rectangular prism with full ceiling joists and a 1:1 roof. Easy to build, strong as hell. Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good anon. Build a simple shed. You'll learn a lot. Go for every detail though. Frame a window, drip edge, etc. Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good
>>2882040>show us your round furniture designs
>>2881900retard here. can someone tell me the point of these things? I see them everywhere and I think they are more expensive than cheap prefab houses lmao
>>2887179To align people's chakras in an uplifting way, and align their money into your wallet in a way that uplifts your bank account
>>2887179They're usually promoted as an easy /diy/ way of putting together the building's shell.
>>2882110When did you last use FreeCAD and how long did you try to use it?Was it your first CAD program?Did you learn another CAD program you used before in "formal" course or with courseware?
>>2887179They look unique and are allegedly very sturdy.A combination of contrarianism and wanting to be in the secret club with elite knowledge.
>>2887179Hippies fell in love with them in the 1960s. They are not widely used (except for very old radar antenna covers in hostile climates) today because they exist to look cool and that is all.https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/nostalgia-for-the-hippie-building-heydayOTOH monolithic concrete domes can be made completely external fire-proof and won't leak around panels.If you live in an area with heavy snow consider an A-frame. Originally designed with the roof pitch such that leaves and snow don't accumulate, They were popular because they're so inexpensive and simple to build.If OP is wise xir will build a workshop before building a residence so they can live next to their project and work on it in any spare time. That really is a wise use of a shipping container which is why industry and the armed forces use so many specialty containers. (I've hung my hammock from the ceiling tiedowns which works nicely instead of a floor space wasting conventional bed but those are easy to fab from angle like my shelving which also hangs from the interior tiedowns.)
>>2887196>>2887211>>2887327>>2887363ok, thanks for explaining.now I wonder: I did consider one of these things a while ago while looking for pre-built houses, but I dumped the idea soon after reading that the internal space is an issue. you have a rather big space BUT you can't really use it all because, well, most things are squared/rectangular in the first place. so, why?
>>2887397it has the less wall material for a given area, that is why domes are used.it makes more sense as a greenhouse in which you make your gardened house inside >>2884232but desu a traditional greenhouse like structure would work too, so dunno
>>2881900Domebook and Domebook2 (plus Shelter) have formulae for developing your own domes along with materials and methods. If stoned hippies could do it, so can you. Personally I'd buy a set of plans for my first dome.
>>2887179Here in Japan they're not uncommon as glamping things since sheds and micro houses are not made to withstand the cataclysmic earthquakes we sometimes have.
>>2889361>sheds and micro houses are not made to withstand the cataclysmic earthquakes we sometimes have.bullshit. I live in another very seismic country and wooden houses (even big ones) can withstand big earthquakes just fine.
>>2881900Those things leak.
