Shapes: Low Profile Spherical Segment
June 08, 2:31 p.m.
Monolithic Dome Shapes
Perspective
Linda Ware
This is the most efficient shape to cover the greatest amount of floor space. Especially useful for large domes.
Featured Domes
Robot Ranch: An earth-sheltered dome and a work in progress
At first glance, when you drive up to what you think is Al Schwarz’s Monolithic Dome home in Ferris, Texas, what you see is a door, sticking up inside a concrete arch, that’s covered with rocks and surrounded by more rocks. “Is that the entrance?” you wonder. Once through that door, you go down a slate staircase that spirals over an aquarium and down into the main dome with living, dining and kitchen areas. You are underground — literally standing inside a hill — but if you hadn’t gone through that door and down those stairs, you wouldn’t know it. It’s comfortably cool and light inside this dome that’s inside of a hill — like being inside any quiet, nicely lighted, restful, Monolithic Dome home. (Continued…)
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Ever since their invention in the 1970s, Monolithic Domes have been on the cutting edge of the latest home trends. They were energy efficient when “green” was still just a color. They offered near-absolute protection from hurricanes when “Katrina” was still just a girl’s name. And they were different, when “out of the box” was still just a packaging term. (Continued…)
An All-Purpose Sports/Performance Venue
Monolithic is introducing the most versatile facility for spectator sports and events that we have seen yet. Architect Leland A. Gray designed this multi-purpose facility, and there is not a bad seat in the house. (Continued…)
Monolithic Indoor Athletic Practice Facility
Athletes need to practice when it is neither too hot or too cold. But few players get to practice football, baseball, softball, track, rugby, etc. year around. A Monolithic Dome facility makes year-round practice possible. It largely eliminates the weather factor. (Continued…)
News
Las Vegas dome owners plan to persevere
David and Su-Z Allen can relate to the old phrase that even the best-laid plans often go awry. In the process of building their new Monolithic Dome home, “emergencies keep cropping up,” Su-Z told a reporter for The View newspaper in Las Vegas. But even though it is not yet finished, the Fenix Dome is an “impressive and eye-catching structure,” according to the article. “There is literally nothing like it in town.” (Continued…)
Iowa Family Explains Why There’s No Place Like Dome
Jay and Jeanne Hansen say they like to be different, and that’s one of the reasons why they opted to build a Monolithic Dome home. “We don’t like to copy what other people do; we like to do things that stand out,” Jay Hansen told Iowa television news station KWWL. (Continued…)
To Every American in favor of Green Housing
For thirty plus years America’s leaders have been wanting more energy efficient, more hazard resistant, more cost efficient green structures for houses, churches, schools, etc. To those leaders and citizens we now say: We have such structures! Please implement the rules to allow them to happen. (Continued…)
Cabin Special - Model 15
We are offering a financing option for our Model 15 Monolithic Cabin. (Continued…)
What It Costs, November 2009
Construction costs have stayed stable throughout October and November, 2009. (Continued…)