It’s a bubble! It’s a gumdrop! It’s a geodesic dome home. 
(Credit: RBF Dome NFP)
CARBONDALE, Ill.–When you see a geodesic dome, you know exactly what it is. You don’t have to wonder if it’s Georgian, Victorian, or neomodern. It’s a dome. All those geodesic dome homes trace their lineage back to a quiet corner of Forest and Cherry in Carbondale, Ill.
R. Buckminster Fuller was the mind behind the dome home. He built what’s known locally as the “Bucky Dome” just over 50 years ago, out of panels of plywood. He meant for it to be c heap and easy to put together. The original assembly took just seven hours. Since the 1960s, domes have reproduced and spread out around the country in a wide migration of Fuller’s ideas. It’s no wonder many people think of him as the grandfather of the sustainability movement.