Modern innovative VikingDome Structural Glazing technologies are perfect for designing and constructing glass buildings and skylights.
The VikingDome team can design and manufacture any glass dome for your desired purpose and function.
Prefabricated ready-to-install kits, installation instructions, and technical drawings are sent to your construction site. We provide supervisor services worldwide.
Glazed dome-shaped buildings have different thermal designs, functions, and technologies used.
Structural Glazing
Structural Glazing is an innovative building material that takes advantage of all modern technology has to offer. The specially reinforced glass used is strong enough to walk on and bear its own weight, and the flexible silicone adhesive provides a smooth, seamless aesthetic and eliminates the need for framing.
The light gray glazed Geodesic Domes looks bright and unusual.
Glass Units have a gray border. The silicone between the Glass Units is also gray. Therefore, the finished building looks bright and unusual. Masking type is glued to the edge of the glass to protect the glass surface from difficult cleaning. The gap between Glass Units is filled with silicone. Excess silicone is removed with putty. Masking type should be removed immediately, because the silicone starts to dry after only 20 minutes. Silicone application temperature °C +5 to +40. Skin-over time 20 min (23°C). Tack-free time 30 min (23°C).
Black color glazed domes are classic Structural Glazing technology. Black silicone is used.
Glazed Domes & Skylights purpose: Rooftop skylight, restaurant, glamping, greenhouse, conservatory, office, glass pool enclosure, solarium, sauna, backyard pod, pergola, geodesic dome home, or any of your idea.
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Shop All standard Glass Dome and Skylight models.
Shop only Single-pane glass.
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Glazed Skylight Roof Design
Custom design. What features are there to choose from?
☑ Sizes from 1m to 50m in diameter (custom size available).
☑ Custom shape and height. Choose a shape: round high or flat Dome, Quadro Dome, Pyramids, Oval, Ellipse, Tunnel Dome, Zome, or Torus.
☑ Entrance options: Door size and quantity. Single or double doors, sliding doors, revolving entrances, or folding doors.
☑ Snow loads up to 6kN/m2. For any extreme north areas.
☑ Frame construction material options: powdered aluminum, galvanized steel, galvanized and powdered steel, stainless steel, structural solid wood C24, glulam pine wood, and glulam larch wood. Available anticorrosion class C3-C5.
☑ Glass unit options: Single pane glass, single pane safe laminated glass, double pane safe laminated glass, Triple pane safe laminated glass.
☑ Glass surface: Extra clear, green, blue, or other color. Mirroring from 0% to 100%. Ceramic painted glass surface in any color. Custom pattern transparency from 0% to 100%. U value 0,9-1,5
☑ Electro-heated glass surface. Outside heated glass for snow melting. Inside heated glass for comfort and condensate drying.
☑ Silicone options: one-component lifespan 20+ years, two-component lifespan 40+ years. The standard color is black, and any color is optional.
☑ Triangle, hexagonal, pentagonal, rhombus, and trapezium motorized operational windows. Operational window size from 0,5 to 5 m2. Drives 24V/110V/230V can be connected to a fire alarm system - opens automatically for smoke exhaust.
Insulated vs Non-insulated glass units
Insulated glass units consist of two or more glass panes with a vacuum, or any other gas, filled between them. Non-insulated glass units have a single pane in their structure.
Insulated glass roofs and domes are more expensive compared to non-insulated ones.
Glass units are tempered glass. Lifespan is unlimited. Only silicone between the glass has a limited life of 20 years (standard option - one-component silicone). After 20 years, the silicone will need to be replaced.
A more resistant two-component silicone lifespan is 30-40 years.
Glass cover classification:
- GU – Single-pane Glass Unit. Non-insulated glass panel. Tempered or hardened glass sheet.
- IGU – Insulated Glass Unit.
- TGU – Triple Glass Unit
Glass dome panels are installed on a downward slope. The glass is trailed to prevent bending due to wind, snow, and weight.
Also known as toughened or safety glass, tempered glass is highly suitable for external walls, facades, and roofs.
Because of a quick-cooling manufacturing process, the glass is highly durable and resilient to impact, making it less likely to shatter upon breakage. In an insulated glass unit, all layers of the glass are tempered.
Glass panels for a glass dome are usually triangular, rhomboid, trapezoidal, pentagonal, or hexagonal. More rarely, a rectangle shape.
Another type of glass panel is called a Figure. Due to the more complicated production process, a lot of manual work, the amount of scraps, figurative glass products are significantly more expensive than rectangles.
Design samples
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Glass options
Glass panels are multilayer composites. There is a wide variety of combinations of glass panels with different characteristics, chemical coatings, lamination films, frames, and sealants is very wide.
Float glass has specific properties in terms of color, transparency, emissivity, strength, pressure resistance, heat resistance, chemical resistance, accoustic, fireproof class.
On custom request, special glass product configurations are available: electrically heated, Smart for privacy, fireproof, anti-vandal, bulletproof, non-slip (suitable for walking).
Electrically heated glass
The most frequently used layers of heated glass are in IGU and TGU products.
Heated glass can be automatically controlled with temperature sensors or adjusted manually.
Heated paths on the glass surface are formed with the help of a laser and are so thin that they are not visible.
The exterior heating layer is designed to melt snow and ice. Primarily used in countries where there is snowfall.
The interior heating layer removes condensation when used in SPA areas, swimming pools, and botanical gardens.
It’s also used to create a comfortable environment in high-end restaurants and hotels, where customers can be seated near a glass wall during winter and not feel the cold draft. If it’s + 20C indoors and -5C outdoors, the inner surface of the glass will be around + 12C to + 16C, depending on the thermal resistance of the glass product.
Internal heated glass does not replace a heating system but only complements it.
Curved and covered glass
We design and manufacture curved glass products for special projects. The glass can be bent in 1 or 2 directions. GU, IGU, TGU can be bent. Curved glass cannot be tempered, therefore it’s not as resistant to loads as flat tempered glass.
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Operational windows
Triangular or other shaped operational windows for ventilation or smoke extraction. Windows can be with a slight slope of 8 degrees.
The window will protrude around 30 mm from the main facade. Openable windows are controlled automatically (power supply 24 / 230V). Lifting weight is up to 100 kg.
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Air ventilation system
In dome-shaped buildings and skylights, warm air is concentrated at the top of the dome, unlike flat roof structures.
Therefore, it is necessary to foresee ventilation solutions when designing the dome. At the top of the dome, hot air moves slowly. As the outside temperature changes, moisture condensation forms on the inner surface of the glass.
A scrubber and balanced extraction system must be installed to prevent condensation on the glass surface
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