geodesic dome
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spherical shell structure based on a geodesic polyhedron
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- Buckminster Fuller
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The Montreal Biosphère, formerly the American Pavilion of Expo 67, by R. Buckminster Fuller, on Saint Helen's Island, Montreal, Quebec A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute stress throughout the structure, making geodesic domes able to withstand very heavy loads for their size.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “geodesic dome” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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