The Roskilde’s Beautiful Geodesic Dome Looks Like a Tortoise in a Field

Constructed for the uber-cool Danish festival <a href="http://roskilde-festival.dk/">Roskilde</a> last year, this brilliant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome">geodesic dome</a> is a fantastic mobile design that could be dismantled and relocated elsewhere. The brains behind the project are Danish architect <a href="http://ktejlgaard.dk/">Kristoffer Tejlgaard</a> and engineer <a href="http://www.byg.dtu.dk/English/Sections/BK/Tilknyttede_profiler.aspx?lg=showcommon&amp;type=person&amp;id=32126">Henrik Almegaard</a>, who designed the latticed structure as a deconstructable network, perfect for a temporary festival. Assembled from 240 plywood hexagons, light seeps into the structure through hexagonal windows that form a pattern across the pavilion like a tortoise's shell.

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Within the wooden dome the space seems cavernous and airy.

It was probably brilliant place to take a time out from the throngs of crowds.

Photos of the dome being built give a good idea of how the intersecting shapes were connected.

The team also have a pretty cool video of the whole construction process behind the fantastic structure.

The interior space looks radically different to the outside.

The shell was entirely built-up out of interlacing hexagon shapes.

All in all its a great project and we hope to see it arise again at a future festival.