Double Dome Project

A fractal-inspired, body-minded building concept

The Double Dome Project was a research project exploring how fractal geometries could be used to design more body-minded buildings that stimulate people towards more playful and active lifestyles. It was developed-for-and-presented-at the Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz 2025 and partly made possible by the Creative Industries Fund NL. One main-model was developed using foamboard modeling and CAD software.

The main-model had a snowcrystal-like shape consisting of a set of two nested, truncated icosahedrons at the center and many smaller sets of icosadrons around its perimeter. The building had a number of interesting properties, such as: A radial lay-out which expands outward (as opposed to the traditional linear lay-out), no “wasted” liminal spaces such as hallways, corridors, etc, many odd-angled walls and even odd-angled floors, floor-barnicles offering more support for the odd-angled floors, and lots of vertical space, hidden corners and opportunities for hanging furniture.

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