As a reminder, please submit your questions about architecture or OMS to our new Ask OMS section on our website.  Then we’ll provide an answer to your question in a future blog entry!  This week’s Ask OMS topic related to the definition of a Monolithic Dome.

Definition:  Constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole, a monolithic dome (from Greek mono- and -lithic, meaning “one stone”) is a structure cast in a one-piece form. The form may be permanent or temporary and may or may not remain part of the finished structure.  Forms have been made using nearly every common structural material including air pressure supported fabric.  Monolithic domes are a form of monolithic architecture.

Definition Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic_dome.

Image source:  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virtual_Monolithic_Dome_House.jpg

Virtual Monolithic Dome House

By Julia Christina Eneroth (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons