We are able to offer a complete service which includes : site surveying, concept and design development, foundation design, structural analysis to permanent building standards, manufacture of the structure, installation, long term maintenance and operation.

Site Specific Demountable Structures

The Eden Project

This structure was designed to provide a covered cafe area, a presentation area and a covered stage for the presentation of small scale music and theatre productions. It is capable of long term siting but is also removable allowing for versatile use of the site.

The structure is based upon our familiar laminated timber dome construction but is fitted with an aluminum box truss which transverses the structure and leans to follow the frame geometry. This enables the removal of part of the structure to provide an open fronted covered stage.

The dimensions are : diameter 22.5 metres, height, to frame top, 6.5 metres.
Foundation details : permanent galvanised steel anchors set in concrete ballast blocks beneath floor level.

Aillwee Caves

Aillwee cave, billed as Irelands Premier Showcave offers the public a guided tour of an underground cavern in the limestone landscape of The Burren in County Clare. The entrance to the cave is through an award winning building set into the cliff face and composed of massive limestone rocks and no formal geometry. Opposite this entrance is another building also of massive rock and free form. Our brief was to fill the gap between the buildings with a demountable structure capable of acting as a holding area for the public and a providing a space for entertainment.

The solution was a tensile poled structure, anchored at each end by huge limestone rocks resting on the ground and along its edges at a series of points, approximately 4.5 metres above ground level and set along the cliff face buildings and the and free form buildings opposite. The poles were of different heights, not in line and set at an angle leaning from the base of the cave entrance. The result is a structure which reflects, exactly, the space in which it is set. It represents the structural opposite of our dome structures : free form, devoid of regular geometry, depending upon its surroundings for support as opposed to freestanding, clearspan, framed and of highly organised geometry.

The overall maximum dimensions are : length 30 metres, width 15 metres and height 8.5 metres. The structure is demountable, can be erected in 4.5 hours and has withstood winds in excess of 100 mph.

The Dome Company, Unit 4, Station Yard, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8BZ, UK - T:01986 872175 - M:07966514046