The dust has hardly settled and I'm already thinking seriously about Shed Week 2009.  Face it, it needs to be a really special shed to win the coverted Shed of the Year title and I'm struggling for ideas, but I might be on to something:  I want my allotment site to have a site hut so we can get together for tea and biscuits and have somewhere to sell seeds and stuff and I think we could have some fun building it together.  And it needs to cost next to nothing to build because allotmenteering has to be affordable.  So what I'm thinking about is a variation on the geodesic dome built from pallets.  Pallets are a great source of free timber, but it comes in short length, but the beauty of the geodesic dome is that it's built entirely from a triangulated framework of short lenghts!  Biggest problem at the moment is that the The Dictatorship of the Air that manage the allotments won't currently allow a site hut, but I'm working on that.

If you'd like some inspiration check out this dome site, and if you have some killer ideas for world shed domination do please post them.

Simon

I've been trying to visualise what a geodesic dome would look like and while sketches are helpful there's nothing like a 3-D model, so I made this cheap and cheerful model the other day.

It's a bit lumpy because I was experimenting.  Framing a door nicely so that it doesn't look like it's been stuck on as an afterthought is a tricky business.  The particularly lumpy bit on the left is what I'm thinking about for the door.

Hi Morgan, have you seen the shed Uncle Wilco is currently featuring on the ShedBlog? It's a very nice shed/greenhouse. I'm pleased you can now have a shed on your allotment. I'm sure there's a whole circle of hell just for petty allotment managers.

I'm familiar with the Eden Project's domes but I've never been there. I'm finding that a lot of people have visited so they understand when I say the shed will be like a biodome, but then they think it'll be like a greenhouse so I have to say it's more like a shed. I made another model to work out more details of the door opening. This one's out of bar-b-que sticks.

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Sorry to hear that Simon…   but we look forward to seeing your workshop…