The People’s Meeting Dome Deconstructs the Geodesic Dome’s Sacred Geometry

Danish architects <a href="http://www.behance.net/ktejlgaard" target="_blank">Kristoffer Tejlgaard</a> and <a href="http://www.behance.net/Oneliner" target="_blank">Benny Jepsen</a> have set out to create a site-specific piece of architecture that reinvestigates the<a href="http://inhabitat.com/passive-house-debate-heats-up-on-the-future-of-a-us-standard/" target="_blank"> future of housing</a> and boy, did they succeed! Their deconstructed dome, a meeting place and the exhibition tent for the Danish National Association for Social Housing, is an exploded version of a dome that can be shaped according to its surroundings. Engaging surfaces and niches created by splitting the original form seem to reveal the true beauty of the dome’s anatomy.

The project was commissioned by BL, Denmark Public Housing, for this year’s People Meeting held on the island of Bornholm, Denmark.

For the Peoples Meeting, the dome contained a stage placed in a niche and the stands situated in the central area.

The structure becomes more flexible and responsive to its surroundings, as its <a href="http://inhabitat.com/prefab-friday-loblolly-house/loblolly-house-kieran-timberlake-associates-inhabitat-prefab-friday-chesapeake-bay-maryland-component-based-prefab/" target="_blank">extruded segments</a> assume different positions within a specific location.

The project is a complex lattice structure that can be assembled to fit different parameters. The printed nodes from the 3d-model are laser cut and robot welded.

The nodes are designed as steel shoes that are open in one dimension and two inches in the other, so they can accommodate the family of standard rafters.

The logic of the extrusions consists in consistent treatment of different elements: the curved surfaces are closed, while the perpendicular ones are left transparent.

The Meeting Dome used 2x4 inches and 2x6 inches construction timber and same size plywood-beams.

The building envelope consisted of translucent greenhouse <a href="http://inhabitat.com/cloud-9s-incredible-inflatable-bubble-building-opens-in-barcelona/cloud9-media-ict-building-wan6/" target="_blank">membranes</a> on the spherical surfaces and transparent PVC film as windows on the perpendicular surfaces.

The printed nodes from the 3d-model are laser cut and robot welded.