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Zero Waste Geodesic Dome Designs

Buckminster Fuller promoted geodesic dome structures which were adopted by environmentalists for housing due to their strength and simplicity. However, geodesic domes require skill to build and produce construction waste. Vinay Gupta created the Hexayurt and Tri-dome/Quad-dome structures using standard 8x4 foot materials like plywood to reduce waste. The Hexayurt is formed from six triangles that combine to make a pyramid placed on a hexagonal base, while the Tri-dome and Quad-dome combine standard roof sections and rectangles/squares into larger dome-like structures.

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Zero Waste Geodesic Dome Designs

Buckminster Fuller promoted geodesic dome structures which were adopted by environmentalists for housing due to their strength and simplicity. However, geodesic domes require skill to build and produce construction waste. Vinay Gupta created the Hexayurt and Tri-dome/Quad-dome structures using standard 8x4 foot materials like plywood to reduce waste. The Hexayurt is formed from six triangles that combine to make a pyramid placed on a hexagonal base, while the Tri-dome and Quad-dome combine standard roof sections and rectangles/squares into larger dome-like structures.

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Zero Waste Nearodesic Domes

Edmund Harriss

http://www.mathematicians.org.uk/eoh
http://maxwelldemon.com
Buckminster Fuller was an architect with a sense of mathematics. He
recognised that simple forms would often have the strength and other
properties required. As a result he promoted many structures from mathematics that have been found to be excellent for construction; most notably the Oct-Tet truss and the geodesic dome. The geodesic dome in
particular was taken up by the environmental movement for simple
housing. The problem is it requires a fair amount of skill to build and if
the faces are made with sheet material, leaves quite a bit of waste.
Vinay Gupta took these problems head on and created the
Hexayurt. His starting point was the 8x4 rectangle. A standard size for
building materials, for example plywood. In particular he introduced the
triangle made from a 2x1 rectangle cut along the diagonal:

This triangle and rectangle combination can be used to make larger


buildings. Here are two:
For the first (the Tri-dome) the standard roof (six triangles put
together) is lifted higher with squares (2 rectangles together) on 3 of the
sides joined by half-roofs:
49 137

100

132

60

146

164
171

150.5

57.5

244
169
80

169

159

811

For the second (the Quad-dome) four standard roofs are made
and leant together around a square. The remaining holes are filled, with a
square on top and four squares cut accross the middle round the side. The
diagonally cut squares are vertical:
135

80

Six of these triangles come together to form a pyramid. The pyramid of


six triangles is placed on top of a hexagon of 2x1 rectangles to form the
hexayurt (for more details see www.hexayurt.com):

150.5
84.5

150.5
150.5

240

128

155

114

169.5

58

114
80

6 wildman

Wildman Image: CC-BY-SA Sodacan:


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wildman_Supporter_(Heraldry).svg

Hexayurt
Tri-dome
Quad-dome

Vertical face
Height
8
100
11 4

Floor area
111 sq.ft.
458 sq.ft.
448 sq.ft.

Angles of walls
90
49, 57.5
84.7, 90

Version 2 30/8/2011, with corrected and additional specifications


Additional information and models at: http://maxwelldemon.com/2011/08/07/hexayurt-dome-details-and-models/

The Hexayurt Family

The Hexayurt

3 Foldable Hexayurts
Lasercut with a thin line for red and thick for green.
Fold back each dotted line.
Insert tabs into green line slots.
Profit.

2 Foldable Tri-Domes

Foldable Quad-dome

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