Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Concrete Wedges For Foundation Hubs & Family Help

Spring of 2020 – Conceptional Ideas Come to Life on SketchUp

Original Design of our 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome — Original Design

During the spring of 2020 Michael purchased the 3D Modelling Program SketchUp and began designing our 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Dome.

Because of post-COVID inflation rates we are not building the annex and main dome (dome to the left). We have chosen to build the garage and workshop section of the original design, with a studio apartment above to call home.

Two years after he started putting his ideas into 3D form, construction begins with Michael as the one man general contractor.

Michael has designed, researched, organized, been part of or is building every aspect of our dome.

We hope you enjoy this blog series.

You can contact us at info@joyfulstephanie.me for further information or questions.

Stephanie & Michael

July & August – 2023 – Concrete Wedges For The Foundation Hubs

The dome focused summer months of 2023 were spent making forms for 5 concrete wedges, pouring the cement, removing the forms, then preparing for hubs and struts.

July 10th, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - All clear and ready to start building forms for the concrete wedges — July 10th – All clear and ready to start building forms for the concrete wedges

July 23rd, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Slow and steady progress — July 23rd – Slow and steady progress

August 19th, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Joyful Stephanie (me!) standing behind a concrete wedge and in front of the hubs — August 19th – Joyful Stephanie (me!) standing behind a concrete wedge and in front of the hubs

Family Help

Michael’s brother Joel traveled from Ontario to help out for a week.

Joel helped to build the temporary barn we now called the Soap Barn. It is used to store the ’48 Desoto and whatever else we can fit in there. It is called the Soap Barn after the bars of Irish Spring soap put throughout the antique Desoto to deter rodents from making it their home.

August 15th, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Joel and Michael — August 15th – Joel and Michael

Michael’s Uncle Denny traveled from Chicago to help for a week. He put the roof on the Soap Barn and helped pour concrete into the wedge forms.

August 25th, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Michael and Denny — August 25th – Michael and Denny

We were both so grateful for Joel and Denny’s help.

August, 2023 – The Soap Barn

We purchased the shipping container that brought our belongings from Qatar to Canada when we repatriated back in 2019.

Michael eventually emptied it and turned the metal box into his workshop to hold all his tools for building. We call this the Rusty Wrench.

Here is the ’48 Desoto and Rusty Wrench under a full moon. You can see the metal doors of the container have been removed, with Michael building a new entrance.

July 30th, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Before construction of the Soap Barn — Before construction of the Soap Barn

August 3rd, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Construction begins — Construction begins

August 4rd, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Concrete work — August 4rd – Concrete work

August 19th, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Joel's progress — Joel’s progress

September 15th, 2023 - East Hants, Nova Scotia - Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome - Almost finished — Almost finished

Long past being finished - glimpse of work in the spring of 2024 - sods laid and garden started — Long past being finished – glimpse of work in the spring of 2024 – sods laid and garden started

Construction Series Of Our 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Construction Begins

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Rustproofing & Color Coding Hub Sets & The Origin Registration Tool

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Steps – Installing Under-slab Plumbing to Final Pouring of Slab

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Concrete Wedges For Foundation Hubs & Family Help

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Bolting Lower Struts To Hubs, Raising First Triangles & Installing Hub Sets

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – November, 2023 – Building the Dome Structure

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Winter – 2023/2024 – Building Of The Dome Structure Continues

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Spring – 2024 – Framing Trapezoids

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Spring – 2024 – Drone Photos Of Penny Lane

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Landscaping & Sheathing & Window Framing

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Construction Of The North Entrance Portico

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Applying The Elastomeric Membrane

Building A 5 Partial Sphere 3 Frequency Icosahedron Geodesic Dome – Progress From January To June 2025

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