Maggie Chu celebrates the Airform inflation for her new dome home
Maggie Chu celebrates the inflation of her Monolithic Dome home in Florida. The scaffolding and other equipment is inside and ready for assembly.
Mike South
Maggie Chu is building a dome on the east coast of central Florida. She’s going to be hurricane ready in her ultra-energy-efficient dome home.
The airform inflated perfectly. This dome features some beautiful ¾ circle extended augments over the front and back door and elliptically topped extended augments for the windows. I like these augments due to the protection that it provides, and they look great.
The construction went well. Due to the availability issues of ready mix, we opted to mix all the concrete for the project. The footing we mixed and poured in less than half a day, and the shotcrete was easily mixed with our Monolithic Concrete Mixer.
I look forward to seeing the interior when Maggie is all done.
For many Monolithic Dome home owners, turning on the fans to inflate their Airform is a pretty epic moment worth documenting.
Mike South
The Airform is fully inflated and it’s time to start construction. You can see the interior frames for the augments have not been put in place, yet.
Mike South
A newly installed window on the finished shell of Maggie’s new Monolithic Dome home. Congratulations, Maggie!
Mike South