Sunday, June 9, 2013

chapter 11 domes

     Domes had been built many years ago. Some mud-brick domes had been excavated in Mesopotamia. How ever it all started with the Romans who built them of stone, brick and concrete. in the Eastern Roman Empire domes were frequently used on basilica churches.
     Domes construction in the twentieth century was transformed by new materials like reinforced concrete and steel. Geodesic domes were pioneered in Germany after the first world war. Geodesic domes are a spherical shell structure. They intersect to form triangle elements. They are like a playground climbers but a domes is closed.



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