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Michael Wielgus from Krakow, Poland, sent us his dome-shaped, wooden treehouse, which was inspired by the geodesic dome structures of American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller.
Thanks to René K. Müller dome plans and studies, Michael decided to build a hovering tree house with a 2.5 meters diameter shell structure for the children as well as a ground-based, 4.5 meters diameter geodesic dome for outside entertaining and grill. “The treehouse is like a big swing” says Michael.
“First I hung half ‘egg’ on a tree, with a strong stable floor with 5 haul-offs of rope. I use 2 (A, B) different struts. For safety, one rope is from steel and the second rope is from plastic nylon with a tensile strength of 800kg and 1600kg. When half was suspended on a tree I built the upper part. hub connecting this is a aluminum tubes with 5 holes on the circumference.”
Hello Michael. This is incredible. I would love to speak with you more about your treehouse. I make geodesic treehouses as well in California USA. I would like to talk ideas! Maybe there is even room for collaboration. Check out my structure at o2treehouse.com.
Best,
Dustin
Thanks for add this article for busyboo.com
With pleasure I collaboration with You Dustin …
best regards
Michael
hello michael. I am a architecture from IRAN . If you allow me, I want to
help me about tree house book to publishing in my country
.If you help to this , you helped me
alot . I am please for this meeting and thank you alot . I need information and high resolation images
Everything what you need You find for example here:
http://www.simplydifferently.org/Geodesic_Dome_Notes?page=3#3V%205/9%20Icosahedron%20Dome
good luck!!
Here You can find some picture with my treehouse. maybe in the future I will put in this gallery new picture with more details.
http://picasaweb.google.pl/malyguso/DomeAndTreeHouse#
best regards
Michael