The Dome Shop

Founder of Dome Shop Nicolas Spenza grew up earning his carpentry skills from his father who owns for 40 years a carpentry company in the most Southern island of Argentina, known for its extreme weather conditions and rain on a regularly base travel horizontal due to extreme wind speeds. It was in this setting Nicolas had to learn man made structures had to be produced sturdy and rugged for them to be sustainable and durable. ​ On a later age Nico was working on high snow covered mountains for Ski retreats in Europe where he got introduced to dome shaped Iglo structures and Read more The first dome that could be called "geodesic" in every respect was designed after World War I by Walther Bauersfeld, chief engineer of the Carl Zeiss optical company, for a planetarium to house his planetarium projector. ​ Future Due to its outstanding physical characteristics, we see geodesic domes being used since its early days for various applications such as; greenhouses, artic science institutes, demo cities of the future and recently pitched as future Mars colony habitats. ​ ​