http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2259.JPG.html 18854 the first itaration. i couldn't find the plans anders had given me, so i drew up some of my own. they looked right, at first glance. we also decided to try the "top down" approach. there was much pole bending. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2260.JPG.html 18858 after the bad dome was completed, i realized something was horribly wrong.. austin and cody try to make sense of my drawing. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2262.JPG.html 18861 i decide this time we'll do it the way we've always done it. from the bottom up. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2283.JPG.html 18864 carying the dome from the construction site to it's more logical location next to the rest of our camp. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2286.JPG.html 18867 dome with tarp, before rainstorm. it blew about 8 feet in the wind in total, before and after we tied it down.. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2324.JPG.html 18870 the main entrance of the finished product. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2325.JPG.html 18873 the couches were a big part of what kept it from blowing away. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2326.JPG.html 18876 even when it wasn't completely waterproof, it made a great shelter from the wind. therefore we did a lot of cooking inside. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2327.JPG.html 18879 the rough edges of the pipes, and the bolts, tore large holes in the big tarp as it blew around in the wind. david and i spent a better part of a day patching all of the holes and covering up the joints with duck tape. on the warmer days, the dome became http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2357.JPG.html 18882 beginning to take down the dome. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2358.JPG.html 18885 more dome take-down. there was a lot of baling wire and duct tape to remove before we could get to the joints. http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2365.JPG.html 18888 http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2395.JPG.html 18891 the real plans. what other wonders must come from anders' brain? http://gallery.casa-z.org/main.php/v/milah/hinkley2k5/geodesic+dome/IMG_2396.JPG.html 18894 my sketch. at least all the numbers came out correctly.. but there were several obvious flaws. "it's not self-dual" as austin pointed out.