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This article deals with the issues of transformable coatings. Modern trends in construction and architecture pose the problem of using prefabricated and transformable enclosing structures of buildings and structures for various functional purposes. Awning materials from polymer films, fabrics, and other elastic types of coverings, on load-bearing frames, in the form of rod and other support systems are used as such enclosing structures. The most resistant to force effects are spatially-rod structures in the form of spheres, hemispheres, or part of a hemisphere, called «geodetic structural systems», geodesic domes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]