How do you hang a picture? Kind of like a -frames...
Cool to look at and cool to visit. Wouldn’t want one at any price however. Inefficient and a waste of space - not to mention Mr. Murphy and his effect on seams and joints.
..think it’s 5 yrs old
“He left all of his money
To Spooner his old hound
Growing old on steak and bacon
In a doghouse ten feet round”
Wonder what an earthquake would do to it.. yeah exactly.
Think of the solar advantage and the money they’d have saved by just buying a motorhome and driving south for the winter.
Don’t get me wrong, geodesic domes are interesting, and have a very strong structure. The interior volume is difficult to fully capitalize upon, though, and the image of them has been damaged by cheap kit dome homes sitting around, in people’s back yards, with ugly hand-applied stucco mildewing and old, hazy, scratched plexiglass marring the basic, clean lines.
Just fancy junk storage, is what most of them turned out to be, in the end.
Beautiful.
Here’s a set of the blueprints you can download: http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot-restricted/misc/other/jupiter_2_from_lost_in_space-27433.jpg
Only cool if it rotates at 3000 RPM.
We rented a geodesic dome house in Juneau, Alaska back in the early 80’s - lived there about 2 years, liked it but not enough to build our own.
Can only say; ‘there’s no place like dome’. . .
A REAL Man-Cave
This man spent a lot less - got a lot more - super well insulated by nature, catches/captures sun/heat from the south...stays warm in winter, cool in summer.
I’d take this over the other one any day...and he even gets free peaches ;o)
http://www.newsandjava.com/watchfoxnewslive.htm
scroll down for video - LOVE this place!
He bought an old abandoned, brush choked quarry/abandoned ‘homes’ - and created an ‘Eden Estate”...all it took was some initial vision -
