Domes

Dome House Plans Added

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We continue to add more plans available through the Natural Building Blog, and I am pleased to announce that now all of Owen’s original dome plans can be viewed directly from our top menu. If you mouse over House Plans then move down to Dome House Plans you will see the list of six of Owen’s … Read more

Domes beat the noise from the world’s busiest international airport

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Hounslow Heath infants' school is directly under the flight path of Heathrow's southern runway and outside play for the children is interrupted every two minutes or so by landing aircraft passing over their heads. Photo: Reuters
Hounslow Heath infants’ school is directly under the flight path of Heathrow’s southern runway and outside play for the children is interrupted every two minutes or so by landing aircraft passing over their heads. Photo: Reuters

“Pupils at a London school so close to Heathrow airport that it sometimes seems descending planes might land in the playground have found a novel way to fight the roar of jet engines.

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Steve’s Dome in Thailand — Take Two

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Steve’s jungle bath: just one of many outstanding features in this innovative home.
Steve’s jungle bath: just one of many outstanding features in this innovative home.

The blog post the other day about Steve’s Dome in Thailand has caused quite a stir. Read the Comments there to get the background story. Here’s a follow-up report about what’s been happening since. The images of Steve’s home are spreading across the net very fast…borderline viral. This confirms my initial opinion that this home is worth taking a closer look at because it is so exceptional. (See his photo galleries here and here. However, I’m taking some flak for my decision to publish a home built with concrete (reader requested, by the way). This was the first and only time I’ve done this, but in this case I felt the home was exceptional enough and had many interesting features that could be used in houses made of sustainable materials. In other words, we can learn from studying homes built with all types of materials. This was all clearly explained in the original blog post.

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LandTrees.net: Roof for our Cacao Dome

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“Here is a video which may be interesting for you: Namely the installation of a corrugated metal roof on one of our domes, “Cacao Dome”. This dome (not to be mistaken with the other you have documented – the EcoRancho and/or Majestic Dome, both in La Chorrera) suffered a lot in the rainy season to the point that we could not use as living quarters during the rainy season.

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