Geodesic Home

thats amazing..what are the walls made out of? it does look like an igloo..lol

Yes, please tell us more about this type of home...

Oh, I'd like one of those! :-)

We have these as well as yurts and my husband helped build an underground home many years ago...I am amazed about your cousin and his hotel...how is he doing with it?

i'm going to buy a yurt tommorow...we are going to let it next summer for holidays...

That will be great Sandra..there are some here that are fully elelctric and plumbed..I had planned to add one on to a store I had to make a sitting/eating area for the cafe part...did not get to do it but we had it all planned..would have worked fine...

A lovely dome home! Looks fantastic.

our will be more basic...compost tiolets and a solar shower....we live in the pembrokeshire national parks and everything has to be very green to get planning...
i havent seen a geodesic domes before. what are they made of?

Thank you all. I think it is so adorable. Could wrap it around with lillies....:-)

This is probably a wood framed structure insulated with fiberglass and then plastered on the outside. The dome design is meant to get the best heating distribution and circulation. So lower heat bills. I've heard they work very well. This is tiny. There is one up the road that has a geodesic center and wings that is probably three stories. I like it for the 'looks like an igloo effect. :-)

Architecturally difficult for a builder to construct is why they aren't widespread. The family sold the hotel years ago and its been closed due to current codes, expensive to redo. It was a distant cousin married into wealth and everyone thought it was one of her 'crazy' ventures. Its still the largest constructed in the state. It was a movement in the 70's that these were built mostly.

i googled geodesic homes last night and found loads of wicked buildings. it puts a whole new diimention on buildings....

Amazing - "so long ago"! I never understand why it it is always more expensive to adapt and work with past ideas than it is to totally scrap and start again, when a lot of groundwork should have beeen done already. :-(

I find the contractors aren't keen to do the work. Little experience and most have little architectural knowledge to work out problems they come across. The skill has become repetitive and standardized. There are great designs out there, just few that will invest in it. And the biggest investment is paying for the ability to handle the construction. We have a high share of ingenuitive and highly skilled laborers here in Alaska.