Catenary Dome without Kangaroo
August 13, 2026When thinking about serious and specific topics, I suddenly find myself looking back at the basics again. Catenary curves, are not the most beautiful one among those mathematical forms found in nature. However, it still tells us a lot about structures. The name apparently comes from catenaria, the Latin word for “chain”. This Grasshopper code was actually an example from our book 10 years ago (link here). It seems catenary curves could potentially be used in a type of dome…


