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An oval dome is a dome of oval shape in plan, profile, or both. The term comes from the Latin ovum , meaning "egg". The earliest oval domes were used by convenience in corbelled stone huts as rounded but geometrically undefined coverings, and the first examples in Asia Minor date to around 4000 B.C.
Imam Dur Mausoleum (1090), with exterior view of its muqarnas dome. The earliest evidence of muqarnas-like elements, although only conjectural, comes from fragments of stucco found in Nishapur, Iran, dated to the 9th or 10th century. These fragments have concave triangular shapes and were reconstructed by excavators as a tripartite squinch.
Elliptical domes have many applications in architecture; and are useful in covering rectangular spaces.The oblate, or horizontal elliptical dome is useful when there is a need to limit height of the space that would result from a spherical dome.
A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure ... Off-the-shelf building materials (e.g., plywood, strand board) normally come in rectangular shapes ...
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