Case Study
The home planet was a 33m diameter, 9m high, monocoque structure with no internal support and a large cut-out for people to enter and engineered by Gurit.
Gurit engineered a solution which combined a sandwich laminate over the upper part of the structure, with single skin over the lower region which had higher curvature. To enable transportation of the composite structure it was manufactured in 32 segments, which were bolted together on site.
Gurit made extensive use of finite element analysis to predict the behaviour of the final construction as well as the temporary states during installation of the structure.
After the Millennium Dome exhibition was closed at the end of 2000, the structure was disassembled and moved, and is now believed to have found a new life as a house.
