Transcript Dome Sweet Dome

Dome Sweet Dome
Materials
Tubular! Make tubes from three
sheets of newspaper & a dowel rod
or broom handle
Tip: Dowel rods
will help you
make stronger
less
flexible/floppy
tubes which will
provide better
support for your
dome.
Secure the final tip with masking
tape so your tube doesn’t unroll
Slide it off the handle or rod
Make 64 more
(Tip: Put them in stacks of five -- it’s easier to keep
track of how many you have and how many to go.)
Time to Trim—35 ‘longs’ and 30
‘shorts’
Make one of the right size, ex. 26 in for the
‘long’ or 24 in for the ‘short’ for full size dome
and use it as a trim guide for the rest.
Longs and
Shorts
Trim all the longs and shorts. Keep
them separated!
Tip! Mark them as longs and shorts
somehow, ex. with two different
kinds of colored tape, or other
method of differentiating. It will
make it much easier during
construction!
Lay out your
decagon (10 sided
shape) using all
longs
Join ends
with
masking
tape or
staples to
build the
base of the
dome
Tape a long and a short to each joint
of the dome. Two longs face each
other followed by two shorts, and so
on.
Tape the tops
of the two
adjacent
shorts to make
a triangle.
Tape the next
two longs
together, and
so on…all the
way around.
Connect the tops of the high and low
triangles with a row of shorts. The
dome will start to curve inward.
At each joint where four shorts
come together, tape another short
sticking straight up.
Connect each short sticking straight
up to the joints on either side with
longs, forming new triangles.
Connect the
tops of the
triangles of
the second
row (the
new
triangles just
made) with a
row of
longs.
Finally, add the last five shorts so
that they meet at a single point in the
center of the dome.
You can cover the triangles with paper if
you wish to enclose the dome.