I chose to research Brunelleschi’s dome. I found it so interesting how he went about solving the problem of the dome. This particular dome had to be constructed entirely different from anything that was built in the past, and to this day is an icon of Florence.

The dome wasn’t actually completed by Brunelleschi, though it was his design that was followed through with. He developed the dome in such a way that scaffolding wasn’t necessary for it to be constructed. This alone was amazing for the time in which it was built. In fact it was unheard of prior to this.

There was no way in which he could use scaffolding because there simply wasn’t enough wood available to build such a massive scaffolding to hold the immense weight of the dome