<![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> @Annalee Newitz: Solidarity, sister. I'd love a dome house, if my traditionalist, patriarchal man would have one.

taxbaby

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> My dad will be pleased. He used to be a construction manager and architect. He used to despair that nobody would let him use a geodesic dome. He would go on about how he could cover the same amount of space in half the time and a third the cost.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> There was one (on the Monolithic site, I think -- I can't re-find it) where the owner built a big dome, painted the inside sky blue and rigged it with star lights and other gizmos to maintain the illusion of being outdoors, and then built an open villa-style building without windows on the inside. I can't remember if he had any windows to the outside or not, but it was a very intriguing idea.

chrisweuve

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> @fuchikoma: Yeah, it's apparently near the banks of the Red Deer River, outside the city proper.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> Nice, but I've been in Red Deer for more than a couple decades and I've never seen one of these things in person. That one looks like it's on a farm or something - the city of Red Deer typically has between 60,000 and 80,000 inhabitants at a given time - it's not a BIG city, but it's not a speed bump in the middle of the highway either - there are miles of downtown.

fuchikoma

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> @deckard97: This future-happy wife would love to take a look at your listing if you ever (in what must be a fit of insanity) feel you must sell this theoretical dome home of yours.

Stephanie A Fox

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> Those domes would be just the ticket in Saskatchewan. Cozy in winter! I guess today is just one of those days when I miss Saskatoon.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> @taxbaby: Yeah, just what I was thinking. Those ladies are always holding us back.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> As long as they don't come with teletubbies, i like the idea a lot.

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> heh, I found a geocache hidden near the NC building a few weeks ago.

Thunderclap8

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> I remember reading about an early variant on these built in the Washington DC area during WWII, in order to relieve the housing crunch in the region. They were simply concrete and rebar pours allowed to harden and cure. They were considered a bit of a failure as homeowners gnerally did not like them. There were uninsulated, damp and hot in the summer and cold in the winter. There was an echo effect because the dome was literally in place with no room or ceiling panels, and because of the curve of the walls, if was extremely difficult to place shelving or even pictures up. It appears the Monolith has fixed all these problems. BTW, the last extant DC area domehome was torn down in the early 1960's.

knyne

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> Oh, and garges become a huge waste of space.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> I'd live in one. But that Colorado photo looks like a collection of carbuncles.

BadUncle

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> I did a thesis on similar architecture and while I support it wholeheartedly a simple, pragmatic problem that always arises is the cartesian nature of our furniture, flooring materials, cabinets, etc. Furnishing a room in one of those houses - particularly the smaller domes - is like fitting the proverbial square peg in a round hole.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> @deckard97: Yeah, god knows if women would stop complaining we'd be driving flying cars to our new jobs in the sky by now.

taxbaby

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> I'm keeping my teapot clear of these.

Otherwise I find them quite attractive in a non-scandalous kind of way. ;)

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> Love those domes! I generally like to live in old houses with history, but if I were going to build a new house, I'd be doming it all the way.

SeeingI

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> I'd be all for it however, the resale value of such a structure might suffer. Can you imagine the typically unimaginative wife of some potential buyer barking "I don't like it! I doesn't look like the Jones'. " Alas how much progress has been denied mankind because 'it' did not match the window treatments...

deckard97

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> Geodesic domes are totally cooler.

Some cool dome photos below.

[pure-research.net]

Rest of the site contains some scifi worthy technohippybabble.

lucky_strike

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> Wow the good old SCA, got my start there back in 95' learning Softimage. Back when 3-D was "the unclaimed territory". Good times, Good times.

jchasse

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> A post about monolithic domes, including a link to the Monolithic Dome Institute (located in Texas), and no link to the restaurant there? What kind of sci-fi blog is this? ;)

[static.monolithic.com]

seanp

]]> <![CDATA[The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan]]> I thought about putting a geo-desic dome or one of the smoother domes like the Monolithic ones on my family property which is a little North of the second to last picture. You see a lot of them in S. Colorado because they're kind of cheap to build and maintain.

Final

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