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Dome/Gymnasium (G building) Weight Room/Wrestling Room The dome is used for many events, athletic competitions and PE classes.
Built in 1959, this was a Kaiser Geodesic Dome construction designed by
Buchminster Fuller. This low cost aluminum dome consisted of 575
diamond-shaped panels that are .081 inch thick. They are curved on their
major axis with a channel-shaped strut connecting the points of the diamond
on the minor axis. The design gives the dome structural strength without
interior supports. The construction of the building and the erection of the
dome caused much interest in the community. It took only two weeks to put
the dome together once all the parts were assembled and the foundation laid. "Palomar College Golden Jubilee" Fifty
Years of Progress
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