Amazon dome headquarters

[remi docs]

What do you guys think about the Amazon dome ?

First i was designed like this :

It resembles a zome, but the top is round. Does anyone have a SketchUp model of such a dome ?

This is the actual amazon dome now :

Which is much more complex, looks like a radome ? Would love to have a sketchup model of that too :)

Man i wish i could build such structures one day.

[homespun]

Wow.  They are actually building it.....

                        Dan

 

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[TaffGoch]

remi docs,

You should check the SketchUp 3D Warehouse. I think you're wish was granted. (Well, the "having" part -- not the "building" part.)

Biosphere • Amazon HQ Campus



-Taff

[TaffGoch]

Ha! I did it -- that which I swore I'd never be caught doing!

I used "you're" when I meant "your"

Actually, I started to write "you're going to be pleased," but revised. Alas, not enough....

[TaffGoch]

remi docs,

The Amazon headquarters domes were subject of discussion here, in 2013:
...Floret Design - Geodesic Help Group

If you're interested in the underlying polyhedron geometry, you should find the discussion enlightening (or, at least, find more pretty pictures.)

-Taff

[Dick Fischbeck]

What a good memory you have.

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[remi docs]

OMG ! Thank you Taff !!!

I started reading the link you posted, and wow, you made it look so simple. 

Taff were you one of the designers for the Amazon dome ? or did you really just make a perfect computer model just based of a picture ? 

You are one talented guy!

[TaffGoch]

I'm a fairly reasonable mimic, with good spacial perception. (Questionable on original thought, though.)

-Taff

[remi docs]

On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 7:37:59 AM UTC+3, TaffGoch wrote:

I'm a fairly reasonable mimic, with good spacial perception. (Questionable on original thought, though.)

-Taff

What do you think about the first design that was rejected, is it a zome ? cause most of the rhomboids seem identical in size. I'd make a sketchup model but wouldn't know where to start :( 

[Ashok Mathur]

Amazon Domes
The Amazon domes are not geodesic; they are conjoined spheres with a ‘Catalan Skin’ made of irregular pentagons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_solid

NBBJ, the architect firm, submitted three successive design proposals to Seattle's Design Board:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/GroupMeetings/DRProposal3015022AgendaID4369.pdf
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/GroupMeetings/DRProposal3015022AgendaID4463.pdf
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/GroupMeetings/DRProposal3015022AgendaID4582.pdf

Regards

The second one has the most technical detail about the domes:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/GroupMeetings/DRProposal3015022AgendaID4463.pdf

Regards

Ashok

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[remi docs]

Thank you Ashok !

This pdf has so much cool info !