Geodesic Dog House

I wanted to build the dog a place to sleep indoors to help keep her dander from circulating in the air(I’m mildly allergic), and was thinking of building a geodesic cabin, so thought I would give it a try on smaller scale:










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Nose

I’m glad I did… In researching geodesic domes I heard mention of problems using spruce and plywood. While I believe it would still be ‘doable’, the accuracy required (+-16th of an inch) to make flawless looking dome(where the plywood triangles meet up) is more work than I would want to do in a cabin. My conclusion after the project is, If I’m going to build an esthetically pleasing dome using a wood frame, I’ll look into using metal connectors vs making wooden triangles and joining them.

Anna
Comment on January 12th, 2008.

i love this but could you give us some direction as how to build it?

onlooker
Comment on January 13th, 2008.

When I find my original printoffs I will try to clarify, but basically I used http://www.desertdomes.com/dome2calc.html calulator to find the size of the struts, and the assembly diagram( http://www.desertdomes.com/graphics/dome/2vdiagram.gif ) . The site is orented for building with pipe, but just consider all values the outside edge of the triangles to be joined.

“2v dome: bend A’s 18º, and B’s 16º on each end”

Cut at 18, and 16 deg. angles.

Build 3 or so pentagons to start and join together with single 3 ‘A’ sided Triangles.