Materials and Process to Create the Core Structure

The key materials chosen to create the main geodesic dome structure were timber cut at two sizes (730mm and 840mm), a large aluminium flat sheet and screws.
The timber was cut at longer and shorter lengths in order to create or triangular sections. We laid out the timber on the grass in order to plot out where the timber would connect and meet the other triangular sections to create the main structure.

We chose to use aluminium flat sheet to create our brackets as it was flexible and would suit the dome's natural bends once erected. We cut the aluminium flat sheet into strips based on the thickness of the timber. We then curved the strips into circles and marked out where the timber would intersect into the aluminium.

Following this, we fixed the timber to the circular strips using screws and then repeated the process on the remaining triangular sections.

Once the structure was connected together and laid flat on the ground, we erected it by lifting from the centre and then connected the base areas together using the longer pieces of timber and the aluminium strips.