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The structure was located on 9.19 acres (3.72 hectares) of land; the Dome had a height of 271 ft (83 m), a structure length of 746 ft (227 m), a structure width of 607 ft (185 m), and a total floor area of 102,150 square feet (9,490 m 2).
Structural System The Georgia Dome is the first Hypar-Tensegrity Dome to be built. In a Hypar-Tensegrity Dome, shown in Fig. 1, hyperbolic paraboloid fabric panels are attached to a cable net that is rigidized by the use of tensegrity principles. Fig 1. Hypar-Tensegrity Dome.
5 wrz 2017 · When the Georgia Dome opened, the roof assembly was the largest self-supported tensile structure in the world. The unprecedented fabric and metal construct allowed natural light to filter into the venue, and even more impressively, gave off a glow visible outside the venue at night.
275 feet tall, the Dome's 615 x 750-square-foot space is covered with the world's largest fabric-covered tensegrity roof structure -- a roof type envisioned by R. Buckminster Fuller and first built by David Geiger for the Seoul Olympic Gymnastics Arena in 1988 in Korea.
The Georgia Dome contains 110,000 cubic yards of concrete, enough to build a sidewalk from Atlanta to Cincinnati. The dome is as tall as a 29- story building, as tall as an average redwood...
In the second part of this century, a new generation of domes appeared: the skeletal domes in cable structures which provide the opportunity to hold new records for the maximum free span ever achieved in covering a single building.
1 sty 2010 · The Georgia Dome possesses the world’s largest cable-supported roof, measuring 235m by 186m. Further, it is the world’s first large-scale oval dome. Its cabling system and its shape give the roof a remarkable texture, a tent-like ambience with an almost Arabic air.
