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I wish I could like this video 100 times. This exemplifies how great RU-vid is when people like Paul can share boundless amounts of expertise to anyone in the world for free. Thank you.

Gives all he has for free. This man deserves a big statue. LEGEND!

This is exactly the size I've been looking with the perfect height. Considering building a tiny home but I wanted the size of a yurt with a single story only. You have hit perfection.

This is the best design I have seen for a dome because, as you clearly state, it maximizes the use of 4x8 sheets of plywood and eliminates the cost of hubs while providing enormous design convenience and flexibility. Really excellent work! Thanks for your willingness to share. It's wonderful to see innovation on display.

Thank you for the time and effort you put into teaching people about this subject. I’ve learnt a lot and I’m looking forward to taking on this project.

Thanks for sharing such an elegant design with the community Paul. I see so many possibilities to explore brilliant

Holy shit this is awesome! I recently bought some plans from you but I'll be making this one first. Think I speak for everyone when I say thanks for making these opensource and FREE!! This is perfect for a modular tiny home on wheels I've been looking for!

Thank you for sharing this with us. And for free! It's beautiful!

Paul you are a genius and so very generous with your time and ideas. So glad I found your RU-vid channel via Pinterest.

Excellent 👍. This is workable solution for many different applications that a homesteader may require. Easy fabricated in a shop during off times. Then assembled as needed. Thank you so much for your time and generosity.

Just discovered your channel and this video and am really impressed. This seems like some Buckminster Fuller-level innovation! Well done and thank you!

Brilliant Paul I had been doing an octahedron breakdown for going into a corner and this dome does it. I am impressed and we will build one in Cullybackey N.I. Your are doing a fantastic service to the dome community Paul.

Greetings from Cozumel Mexico 🇲🇽 this is an awesome start project!!! Thanks for your work and specially for sharing your knowledge!

Thank you Paul for your efforts and sharing your design. This is brilliant. Looking from above I notice that this design lends it self very well to stretching it into a tunnel.

This is the best design I have seen for any geodesic dome. I will build this one on a concrete platform so the door is square. The ability to combine multiple domes is amazing. Such a simple design with readily available materials.

I am very impressed. Best channel for geodetic domes. I want to built this in my garden. Thank you so much for your explanations ❤️

That's a really gorgeous looking dome, i can't wait to give it a go

this by far seems the best. Paul thank you for simplifying! wathced tons of videos and hope to coordinate my plans to your site or here. this now is doable for any person of skill. best product to help a wondering human to find a humble home

Great Job, very usefull for me ! Thank you so much for sharing and working for the community. I was looking for a good dome to build and this one is one of the best model I saw. I mean easier to construct for a good average size. Ideal for me. Thanks. I am still watching your channel with great attention and pleasure.

Thanks a million for all the great information you share. The dome looks great and it's the right size for my project as well!!

Thank you for IDEAS THAT WORK, leading to other ideas that develop. I'm working on the ideas, and you implement your thoughts in a great sharing platform. Thank you for creating this site.

Thanks Paul, this is a wonderful design, with so many "features" in the result! Think I will try this with EMT, either 3/4 or 1 inch. Can even build in stages if rested into a corner, then flat wall, etc. Inspiring... thanks again.

Exceptional, Excellent design, Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful, beautiful, ThankYou for the free plans download. Peace, respect, love.

Fabulous! I just completed my imperial GD27, I would love this in Imperial conversion as well! Thank you!!

Thanks Paul! Been looking at your video's and you sir, are amazing and inspiring.

Great stuff Paul, you've done us all a massive service, cheers legend!

Hi Paul thanks for your amazing work !!! every video is an inspiration greetings from Spain

I built this in my garden at a 0.57 scale factor so the footprint fit my garden. Had to raise it a little to make it so I could get in but it works perfectly. Great plans thank you for sharing Paul.

First, my respect to your kind heart for sharing your knowledge free. Also my appreciation for the brilliance of one-piece dome model. I saw your comment that wanger flanges could be expensive. You are a wonderful engineer but a bad salesman :)). God bless…

Great one Paul, love it! Thanks.

This is fantastic. Thanks for doing this!

Great thinking. Simplest design I've seen yet

Very cool concept! Quite elegant. Thank you!

Dude so nice, I wanted to make one that can be moved and this one can turn into 4 pieces, amazing. Thanks

This is the best I have ever seen. Thank you very much.

Thanks Paul. Great information. Useful building.

Brilliant!! Thank you for the free plans.

Beautiful solution, Im not a big fan of domes, but I might just try this one out, thanks for sharing your work.

This is awesome thank you! For your knowledge and time

Nice, thanks! My gd27 dome is in use for the last 5 years and still great to use.

Great design... hope I get to try it out (maybe next summer, as this one already has enough projects). Thx for sharing

This is a really brilliant design! Very practical, especially with the easy bisections and quartering. Nice job!

I am looking for a dome plan for 2 persons, for a desert area, bolted to a slab, to serve as a hub for additional "add-on" daisy chain expansion. Glad I found your channel... was quick to subscribe! Thanks

Truely a godsend.. Much respect and thanks!

Maybe it looks like simple and from the math point and linking it is along with flat bottom. But there are actually 6 different pieces from engineering standpoint that has to be build, also triangles are bad gor any kind of openings like windows. I was thinking in the same direction but ultimately I came to a conclusion that less elements the better. My approach was mixing triangles penta and hexagon shapes to form modular structure. I ended up using only 5 elements with 3 od them not being prismatic (forming triangles) that are used for static load. Kudos for your work and sharing it. Really good work.

This one is really beautiful

Hi from Brasil, congratulations Paul you are a Visionary , love your ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for your generosity, greetings from Colombia : )

THANK YOU PAUL for yout excellent design, explanation, & pdf. i hope to build one if i can get some affordable land.

Definitely the best dome and simple for beginner.

Thank you very much... a lot to learn from and amazing design...

Good design! Thank you!

Super cool Paul!

I really enjoy this dome style. The kite frame, with the single shape really simplifies it, plus the fact that the dome is dividable in 4 quadrants is really cool too! I'm planning to build a 4 season greenhouse dome and this might be my top choice. I plan to make a footing from ICF Blocks and insulate the north wall part way up. I'm curious if the dome size can be scaled up much without stressing the struts?

So cool. Looking to build a frequency reverberation structure.. I do sound therapy in Montana in the woods. Thank you for your work.

I never liked geometry in school, but I do like it in art and architecture...

There isn't a cut list. A cut list would be awesome!!! I believe this is the most beautiful of all the domes to date! Thank you for sharing!!! It's a game changer.

How amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Love these! I would appreciate imperial since you asked but also, since you've done so much work I can whip out the converting app :)

This is awesome! Bang up job. Is there a Sketchup file available for scaling the dome? I'm looking to build an 8.5m half dome to cap a hoop house that I'm building around my camper and this is PERFECT! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so very much Paul! Cheers!

Hi Paul, thanks for this bang up job, excellent work and very interesting. As you can split it into halves and quarters so easily, would this not make a great tunnel as well? I remember from your previous tunnel videos that was a difficulty with some of the 3V because they don't have a flat bottom and difficult to slice. Indeed this done would solve those problems the way I'm seeing it. I'll see if I can have a crack at it on Sketchup :) thanks for the plans! it is really appreciated!

Paul you a genius!

Impressive design!!

Fantastic Paul. I've been researching Geodesic domes for about 40 years. It's on my bucket list to build one. would love to talk to you about it if possible. Thank you.

Wow!! Simply Amazing!!

thats awesome thanks mate! from NZ

Interesting structure! Thanks! It seems that it would be possible to build the dome using a combination of four corner kites and the two triangles only where you want the dome to meet the ground or a wall. Each kite is flat, the curve of the dome is created only where kites or single triangles meet. Would it weaken the dome a lot to take out the two middle sticks in each kite?

very good design. thank you

Paul thank you again for for the content and hard work, i have a question about making frames, can we use a regular 2x4 to build the frames or does it need to be a narrower ripped board? Thank you again!!!

Could you put out an updated download with imperial measurements?

Definitely would like to have plans for this dome, I enjoyed the possibilities explored using Sketchup, and more importantly that this half-dome seats flat. That in itself simplifies a lot of issues.

Amazing. My plan is for a 24 foot dome, and this is about 22, so I just need to put my thinking cap on and figure out the measurement changes to make that happen.

Brilliant, thank you .

Absolutely Awesome again Paul, May I ask, if I was to reduced the 1214 struts to 1200 as most uk sized timber comes in 2.4, how would I re-dimension the other sides to at lease get 2 x cuts from a length. As it would need 3 sticks per triangle as it stands for now. Many thanks in advance Sir

Thanks Paul. I've learnt a lot from your videos. Spending many ours with them 😊 What type of wood do you use for the frames? I suppose that I can change the size with a ratio-factor as you explained in an other video?

Great video

Absolute legend.

I wonder if this will transform into a tunnel as neat as the dome itself. I really do like the way the triangles look in this dome.

hi Paul, I have recently found your channel, and it's awesome, thank you so much :-) may i ask a silly question; how do you secure the wooden base to a concrete foundation and waterproof it?

I have downloaded your excellent plans. Thanks tremendously. Since each side is a mirror image, could a one or two meter extension be added at the seven nodes to elongate the design? Thanks in advance for your reply. I really enjoy your videos.

Haa! you are the best. Straight away an interesting build... Let me know how if this knocks up with the Joints you sell... I'm all in for the build, if so. thanks. I think Aircrete Harry and you should have a conversation, over a few beers.

Beautiful!!!

Paul you are amazing! Thank you endlessly for sharing your knowledge and plans with the world. We are a group of friends in Ontario and we want to collectively help each other build domes on each others properties. We love this plan due to the simplicity of only having the one size triangle, and the adaptable nature of this design, however we have a connection for free lumber of 3 feet in length (2x4 studs) we were hoping to utilize. Can this plan be modified, or you you have an alternate plan you would recommend us to use? Thank you kindly!!!

I love this channel Paul and I want to build a dome . With any of my projects, I start with a model before taking on something major.The mirror triangle for your unity dome is brilliant however.... I want to build a diameter of 16 ft 5 in. instead of the suggested 22 ft .After scaling down the frame measurements to a factor of .082057---- for the model, I must have had the apex angle wrong because they do not fit . If there are 5 mirror panels with 10 triangles ,I presume that the angle at the top of each triangle should be 36 deg. ?(360 deg divided by 10) and the bottom should be 70 deg? since no angles are given on the plans. Thanks again for your devotion to domes.

Amazing - thanks!

Hi Paul, Thanks for your time and for sharing so nice ideas with us. Just a little stupid question. I first imagined all triangles were right-angled triangles, but then I went on the slide concerning the frame measurements and 1214, 1828 and 2137 do not fit with Pythagore! May be I misunderstood or perhaps these dimensions are not in the same plane.

Thanks so much love it all

Great Design ty for posting this/'

This sounds like a fabulous design. It should also be relatively easy to make into a tunnel. Could it be made larger?

Are you planning on building one of those any time, Paul? Cheers for everything you do!!

Would scaling back the frames change the angles? Assuming all the lengths are scaled back in an equal ratio ie. 20%?

Any updates to this? More details? looks great!

I just found this, and love the design and what seems as the easiest dome construct I found to date. I have one question... This is for a 6,7m dome, covered in plywood sheets Would it be possible/advisable for me to add a percentage to the material thickness/lengths to enlarge the dome to the size I would like ? (I would like to make a dome with this system of diameter 10m or so

Paul, what an interesting design. Could not get it to download. Would like to build it but has to be smaller to meet our local codes.

This is a good looking dome layout. Perhaps a calculator could be constructed for the strut lengths for different size domes.

Enjoying your videos, good idea for a one man build,still possible to get plan in imperial measurements thanks

This is great but Paul, been looking for a geodesic dome using light gauge steel studs. Would be willing to buy a video and floor plan.

Nice....thank you.