Dome life: is the arched architecture of domes construction’s hidden treasure? | News | Architonic
Houses and buildings are one of the first subjects children learn to draw. The simple arrangement of squares and rectangles with a triangle on top is easy and efficient, and quickly identifiable. Once we graduate from drawing to building, however, perhaps there is a better way. These five examples of domed buildings, pavilions and installations support the thinking that there is an easier way to do it, when you think outside the square. A geodesic dome like the one designed by Kristoffer Tejlgaard for the Roskilde Festival, ‘is a construction that optimises the use of resources,’ claims the architect. By imitating the mathematics of chemistry in nature, the molecular structure of the
