Skydome is a modular, reusable formwork system made of recycled ABS plastic, designed for the construction of cast-in-place two-way waffle slabs. Thanks to its dome-shaped geometry, the system creates a matrix of voids that, once the concrete is poured, forms a slab with monolithic orthogonal ribs, ensuring high structural performance with a significantly reduced use of material.
Compared to traditional solid slabs, Skydome allows weight reductions of up to 30%, decreasing the self-weight of the structure and improving seismic behavior. The reduced mass results in lower stresses on load-bearing elements, enabling longer spans and greater architectural freedom.
The formwork is lightweight, easy to handle, and simple to install, thanks to a modular support system that ensures fast operations and on-site safety. The plastic does not adhere to concrete, allowing quick stripping and continuous reuse, reducing both costs and environmental impact.
The resulting slab can be left exposed, enhancing the aesthetic value of the waffle slab while also improving the building’s acoustic performance thanks to the dome shape.
Skydome is ideal for public buildings, schools, commercial facilities, and residential structures that require large spans, lightness, and high architectural quality.
SKYDOME is a modular formwork system in ABS recycled plastic used to build two-way ribbed slabs completely on-site. This product allow to create a bi-directional slab inspired on the caisson, i.e. to build a monolithic casting of orthogonal ribs with an upper slab of adequate thickness.
The system was designed to decrease the weight of traditional full-concrete slabs. The dome-shaped forms create a matrix of voids surrounded by orthogonal ribbing, thus producing a two-way configuration very suitable for large-spanning slabs.
The SKYDOME system includes a range of ABS domes of various depths (H 200, 250, 300, 350 e 400 mm), set on special interlocking supports, which make assembly fast and easy.
The cube allows the connection of the beams to complete the network. H has the same size of the beam in order to be adequate to the system.
C120 - C160 - C200
Allows the creation of place network for the dome. The beam width is decided during the project stage.
T120 – T160 – T200
ABS recycled plastic is extremely resistant, therefore all GEOPLAST formwork can be reused more than 100 times.
SKYDOME system can be dismantled even after 4-5 days. However, it is necessary to post-prop the slab until full curing of the concrete. In every case, the right dismantling time must be approved by the plan design according to the type of concrete used on-site.
