The eco guide to geodesic domes

Take a leaf from the designs of Buckminster Fuller and redefine the space you live in with a freedome

Most of us are trapped in rectangular living, trying to retrofit eco-efficiency, but we could be enjoying life in a geodesic freedome. For starters, freedomes are inherently efficient: they need no intermediate columns or supporting walls. After all, a geodesic line is the shortest line between two points on the surface of a spheroid, and the sphere is nature's most efficient shape.

Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, who created the Montreal Biosphire in 1967, was the foremost pioneer of geodesic domes, the master of tensegrity - tensile integrity - and the reason why geodesic structures are forever associated with eco living.