Community Dome

For this project, we worked as a group of three for the "Make It Heal" challenge. My group and I designed a Community Dome. Located in Florida near the Gulf of Mexico, our Community Dome is designed to protect survivors from Hurricane's. We sketched out our ideas for what our design will be like. We decided to combine our ideas into one since they were really good inspirations. Our Dome design intends to resist forces that destroy homes making it a safe haven for citizens during or after a hurricane, reducing casualties and injuries. Having a secure, stable shelter helps restore normalcy and morale for survivors. It provides a sense of safety and control, which is essential for mental health and the community uniting during recovery. Our community dome is engineered to endure the most severe wind forces, spread structural loads evenly across its curved surface, resist damage from high-velocity impacts, and remain habitable even in extreme weather environments.

Once we came to a final decision on how the design and setting will be, it was time to build the setting and the building design in Tinker CAD. We wanted our Community Dome to be a hurricane relief system that provides, shelter, food, water, and medical relief after crisis. This allows us to give people the community space even before disaster happens. We also have an area dedicated for people to grow crops. We collect rain to filter and turn into drinking water. This building also has solar panels to conserve energy. Inside, it has a area to recycle and save resources, a medical center, and rooms to provide a safe space after disaster strikes.

The supplies and materials we had for the setting included cardboard, paper, Styrofoam balls, air dry clay and hot glue.

Estimated time: this project would take about 2 weeks.

Safety considerations: Be careful with sharp tools. make sure to not accidentally put hot glue on yourself. Follow proper 3D printer safety rules.

We made our Cad Model we a cylinder for the base and duplicated it and made it smaller. than we connected them both together and we made the solar panels with rectangles and flattened them out and put them on the roof for the solar panels and the windows. For the little details like the stairs, balcony and door, we used the pre-build models. For the setting we got a cylinder and made it long and skinny to represent the bark and you doodle tool and drew a wiggly line to make a branch, then we used the piece sign pre-build and re-seized it to be small colored them to be leaves and duplicated the branches and trees and added them all around the forest.

The Dome's setting is Florida near the Gulf of Mexico. We were making the dome out of cardboard; we first made one part and the other part of the dome. Then we glued them together and added tape around the entire dome. I than glued pillars at the bottom of the dome made out of cardboard, and now we had to put clay all over it to smooth out the surface of the dome. As well as making stairs for the entrance of the dome. Next, we wanted solar panels on the dome as well, so we could make the solar panels out of cardboard. We painted the solar panels and the dome. once we were done painting the solar panels, we glued the solar panels to the roof of the dome. and then when we were finally done with the building, all that was left was to just glue the building to the base of our setting.

For our final model, the clay on the design actually made crakes, so we glued the crakes to make it look better. Next, we painted the entire dome grey and also glued the solar panels on top. we then painted windows using glue paint on the dome and made stairs as well. then all we had to do next was glueing it in the setting.

For our project our community dome has finally been created, we found a way to use resources to create a safe community space. we included many ways of rehabilitation after disasters and created an energy conserving and anti-hurricane design. We created a safe space for communities and bringing them together to help one another. our garden allows people to pitch in and help feed people. we also have water collecting that helps people drink. We added a design that pillars in the ground that allows our building to be stable and strengthens the architecture. We sat our setting during a flood to show how our building was able to withstand a hurricane.