Described herein is a mold for making units of a dome structure, comprising: a first mold piece, a second mold piece, a third mold piece; the third mold piece is configured to be sandwiched between and assembled with the first and second mold pieces; wherein an assembly of the first mold piece, the second mold piece, and the third mold piece is configured to form a mold cavity; wherein the third mold piece comprises a plurality of sidewall plates; wherein the plurality of sidewall plates are perpendicular to a same spherical surface when the third mold piece is assembled with the first and second mold pieces. Described herein is also a method of using the mold, and the method comprises: assembling the plurality of sidewall plates to form the third mold piece; assembling the second mold piece and the third mold piece; assembling the first mold piece with the second mold piece and the third mold piece to form the mold cavity of a first-level mold; injecting a molding material into the mold cavity; forming a unit of a first-level dome structure by allowing the molding material to form into shape; opening the first-level mold; extracting the unit of the first-level dome structure.

A 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system and method based upon a 3D variable die system and including one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to continuously produce thermoplastic composite pultrusions with at least one of varying cross-section geometry and constant surface contours, varying cross-section geometry and varying surface contours, and constant cross-section geometry and varying surface contours.

A 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system and method based upon a 3D variable die system and including one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to continuously produce thermoplastic composite pultrusions with at least one of varying cross-section geometry and constant surface contours, varying cross-section geometry and varying surface contours, and constant cross-section geometry and varying surface contours.

Described herein are systems and methods for creating and operating a geodesic dome habitat. The geodesic dome habitat includes a frame system for providing structural support and at least one tile that attaches to a face of the frame system. The frame system includes a plurality of struts arranged along the edges, a plurality of tension cables arranged planar to the faces, and at least one connector arranged along a vertex. The tile may be a functional tile for performing a specific functional task, such as a functional tile that includes irrigation systems for irrigating plant receptacles in a vault enclosure, and/or a functional tile that includes thermal plates and outlets for fermentation. The geodesic dome habitat may be compatible with any number of functional tiles, electrical systems, furnishings, etc.

A multi-layered structural and material system assembly may include a first layer and a second layer, each of the first layer and second layer comprises a plurality of slender structural support elements, wherein a plurality of anchoring members connects the first layer to the second layer to form a skeleton of the multi-layered structural and material system assembly; and a fabric harmoniously integrated into a substantial part of the skeleton to define a plurality of singular modules, wherein the skeleton comprises a plurality of unit cells arranged in a repeating pattern, each having a first central axis and a second central axis, each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells in the first layer is in a horizontal offset displacement of a corresponding unit cell of the plurality of unit cells of the second layer.

Disclosed is a rollable framework based on the RF (Reciprocal Frame) system, which can be used as post-disaster emergency structures, fair stands, industrial tents, or roof shells to meet the shelter needs of architecture, military, non-governmental organizations, and can be used as a vault by opening the closed rollable form.