Pacific Domes

Pacific Domes, the California dome-building operation tied to Lloyd Kahn's Domebook 1 and Domebook 2 — the widely used owner-builder dome manuals of the late-1960s/early-1970s counterculture.

Pacific Domes and its Domebooks put buildable geodesic-dome plans and chord factors into the hands of thousands of owner-builders. Their 3-frequency figures, however, did not make all ground-level vertices coplanar — the very shortcoming David Kruschke's Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry was written to correct, deriving a truncatable dome that sits flat on the ground.

Role in Fuller's world

Pacific Domes represents the popular dome-manual movement that spread Fuller's geometry to owner-builders — the practical (if mathematically imperfect) channel through which the geodesic dome became a countercultural building of choice.

See Also

• Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry (Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry) — the workbook that corrected the Domebook 3-frequency chord factors

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work anchors this organization.