History of Dome House

Since the beginning, mankind's ambition has been to feed, protect and improve itself. The oldest civilizations evolved living in round yurts, igloos and teepees because of a need for strong shelter, the scarcity of building materials, and light weight that took the least effort to transport during migration. Many of the world's oldest and architecturally beautiful buildings in Europe and Asia are arched domes, or buildings with clear span arch entries and halls built strong enough to survive the centuries. Dr. Walter Bauersfeld, using spherical geometry, was first to combine the strongest geometric shape, the triangle, with the sturdy arch in Jena, East Germany in 1922.

The first dome that could be called "geodesic" in every respect was designed after World War 1 by Walther Bauersfeld, chief engineer of the Carl Zeiss optical company, for a planetarium to house his planetarium projector. The dome was patented, constructed by the firm of Dykerhoff and Wydmann on the roof of the Zeiss plant in Jena, Germany, and opened to the public in July 1926.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes (constructed in numerous locations across the US, e.g., Virginia Beach, VA), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities. The dome was soon breaking records for covered surface, enclosed volume, and construction speed. According to a WAFB-TV of Baton Rouge news report on November 27, 2007, the Union Tank Car Company Dome has been demolished.

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