Collection by Luke Hopping
Modern Geodesic Domes
These huts, homes, and tree houses wear their love for Bucky Fuller's geodesic designs on their sleeves.
Instead of trying to build a traditional “box” tree house, Dustin Feider, a 23-year-old freelance furniture designer, realized he could use less material and construct a more stable structure if he made a geodesic dome—a mini Epcot in the sky. And that’s how the 02 Sustainability Treehouse looks suspended 45 feet up a poplar tree in the front yard of the Pewaukee, Wisconsin, house in which it was built.
Geodesic domes were first popularized by R. Buckminster Fuller in the mid-twentieth century, but the extremely strong and stable structures have since been developed into sustainable, wind-resistant models. Oregon Dome produces wind and hurricane resistant geodesic dome kits in thousands of plans, sizes, and shapes. Each can easily be built by the customers themselves, no special equipment necessary.