#geodesic-dome

#geodesic-dome

However, the main problem with the project was one of scale. The building had to cover an unobstructed interior area of approximately 27,000 square meters. This span forced Candela to go beyond his comfort zone of the thin concrete shells that had made his reputation and into a new structural typology. His solution was a geodesic dome.

For all the inventions presented as revolutionary that never really caught on - the Dymaxion house and car, the geodesic dome - as well as the countless pages of eccentrically theoretical writing and even more countless hours of talk, it can be difficult for us now, here in the actual twenty-first century, to pin down the civilizational impact he so earnestly longed to make.