The Workshop
The workshop consists of the collective construction of one or more domes about 4 m in diameter and approximately one meter in height.
It begins with a small explanation of the activity and how to place the poles.
Construction begins step by step with the participation of everyone, in a matter of 10 minutes it is already visible how it grows and rises.
Once built, the little ones can enter it. You can also lift all if there are enough participants to hold all the poles on the perimeter. It is a peak of coordinated work that allows you to see the plot of poles from below.
Because the poles hold each other, when one fails, everything falls chainly.
Although it depends on the available time and the group, usually in a one-hour workshop, there is time to make a second dome.
- Location: At the MMACA headquarters in Cornellà and throughout the territory
- From 8 years old to adults. It adapts to each age and need. It is also possible to do it in the initial cycle.
- We can also approach the workshop as training for teachers or educators who want to use this material.
- Required time: usually 60 minutes.
- Number of participants: between 10 and 30 people maximum
- Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci, history, geometry, architecture, spatial comprehension, cooperative work
These three-dimensional structures with sticks that hold each other appear in the writings of the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci
The contemporary sculptor Rinus Roelofs rediscovered these drawings, studied them and created magnificent sculptural derivations from them.
Inspired by them, the MMACA has developed the LEONARDOME design of these bastons with 4 notches.
No other joining element is necessary, the same weight of the pieces is enough to maintain their stability.
Although there are infinite possible construction patterns, for the workshop we propose 11 simple models
to school groups
To the school groups that visit us at the Mercader Palace. We adapt it to the age of each group from 5 years old to university students.
- Can Mercader Palace in Cornellà de Llobregat
- from 5th grade of primary school onwards
- Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Monday and Wednesday until 3:30 p.m.
- Duration: 1h 15 min
families and the general public
Every Sunday morning from 10 am to 11 am the dome workshop is organized in the Mercader Palace. Please note that prior reservation is required.
- Can Mercader Palace in Cornellà de Llobregat
- Every Sunday
- Duration: 1 h
- Coupon with a 50% discount
- Price: 5€ / person
schools, schools, fairs and street parties
We travel to schools, libraries, centers, fairs and street parties and adapt the workshop to your demands and needs, whether they are recreational, framed in an academic plan, or teacher training.
- Location to be agreed. It can be outside or indoors.
- To be agreed, minimum two workshops for displacement.
- Duration: 1 h
The LEONARDOME project is a collaboration between MILANTA.NET , IURIS. DOC and MMACA with the aim of disseminating and marketing this material.
On the web you can LEONARDOME.COM :
- acquire the box with 250 pieces
- the box with 50 pieces
- hire a workshop
- request the temporary rental
Pedagogical elements of the Workshop
Within the general objective of the development of all the capacities of the students, this workshop covers a wide range of objectives of different areas. On the one hand, we work on the development of spatial capacity, the visualization and identification of geometric patterns, manual skills, reasoning and abstraction. But especially in the social and civic sphere, the dynamics of collaborative construction of the workshop with a tangible and spectacular result allows to develop the objectives of communication, teamwork, coordination, respect and mutual collaboration.
Identification of polygons, different types, their names and their components. Creation of tiling. Spatial reasoning, visualization linked to manual skill and front-behind concepts, over-under. Understanding the origin of the curvature of tiling. Domes as a solution to a technological problem. The structural properties of flexible constructions. Domes in the history of art. Leonardo da Vinci.
Speed in understanding construction instructions. Speed in identifying the position of the new pieces. Collaboration and help of the work of colleagues. Mutual verbal explanations. Attention to the progression of global work. Difficulty of the pattern chosen in the construction of the second dome.
- Communication
- Linguistic and audiovisual communicative competence
- Specific to living together and inhabiting the world
- Linguistic and audiovisual communicative competence
- Social and citizen competence
- Methodological
- Mathematical competence
- Competence to learn to learn
- Personal
- Competence of autonomy and personal initiative
Who was Leonardo da Vinci, the origins, the patterns
Tabletop domes
In our store you can buy this desktop version in family or school version. The accompanying instruction book allows you to easily build the 11 models.
