OK, that's good; a reasonable approach to leaks.
It’s all held together with bolts that bolt through all the layers. The shell of the dome is about 2 1/2 inches thick.
That's not so good. Many potential leak points. Stress concentration at the bolt holes. The plastic may tear. Nothing holding the edges together with a tight seal. Almost all the problems with geodesic domes are at the joints. The author is vague about how the joints work.
Buckminster Fuller's concept for geodesic domes was that they were to be made from factory-built components and modern materials. They were to be products of the industrial age. In a factory, parts could be made to tight tolerances and be weathertight. With modern durable materials such as aluminum and Fiberglas, the domes could have long lives. During the 1950s, many such domes were built for radar stations. There are large radomes in the Canadian north abandoned decades ago, but still standing.
Then came the era of hippie domes, which were built by hand from "natural materials". This did not end well. The author of Domebook I and II has repudiated his work, after a long history of failed structures. Trying to shingle a sphere does not work well. Nor does trying to fit a standard window into a dome. Nothing quite fits, and there are too many bad seams. All this gave geodesic domes a bad name.
The domes in this article look like the ones from Dome Village in LA, but less rugged. [1] That was an attempt to house homeless people. The Fiberglas domes of Dome Village held up fine for 13 years; the project failed for other reasons.