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Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home?
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http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/styrofoam-dome-homes/

pretty badass, affordable housing.



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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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Now say it 10 times fast. :tongue:


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: The_Ghost]
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thats a doozy!


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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ill build them jus 4 blazin


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: Coaster]
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well for roughly $30k you can build your own eco friendly and durable smoke lodge.  :rasta:


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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Yeah, might be neat for like a kids treehouse or something.


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: badchad]
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no way man, you can make them bigger, or connect several of them to make your home larger, it actually leaves alot of room for expansion.


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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I would rather build a Monolithic dome. All they say on their website is: "The streamline curvature of a dome helps to dissipate wind energy." I want case studies and someone's personal experience with this shit in a hurricane or tornado. Monolithic domes have been proven to withstand both of those where houses just next door were torn to shreds.

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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: DNKYD]
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well unfortunately not everyone can afford a monolithic stone structure.

http://www.i-domehouse.com/

looks like it would be pretty structurally sound to me.  as long as its put together correctly, any dome has been proven to withstand very severe weather.


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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The website says the kits start at $30,000, which does not include transport, assembly, or interior finish. I'm going to assume, since that is all I can do given the lack of information they provide, that the $30K price tag is for their base model which totals a whopping 480 sq. ft. of interior space. After you factor in the costs not included in the structure's price you are probably looking at anywhere from $75 to $110 per square foot of finished space.

Depending on how you go about it, a Monolithic dome house can fall within that price range as well. Of course, it all depends on how lavish you want your living quarters to be.

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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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leftysurprise said:




I dunno man, I can totally see Papa Smurf walking out of one of those things.....


>^;;^<


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: PhanTomCat]
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ehh. i still think its neat :smile:


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: DNKYD]
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DNKYD said:
I want case studies and someone's personal experience with this shit in a hurricane or tornado. Monolithic domes have been proven to withstand both of those where houses just next door were torn to shreds.


stick framing is about as weak as you can get, it's not
surprising that they cant handle a 120mph windload, fact of the
matter is tornadoes are unpredictable, I've seen stick framed
homes left untouched whole others around them were splinters, a
class3 tornado will take out a monolithic dome, class 4 or 5
will uproot the fucker and drop it on the nearest school


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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well the kids wont have far to walk to school now will they?


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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*wont have a school to walk to


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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well that complicates things.


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said:
DNKYD said:
I want case studies and someone's personal experience with this shit in a hurricane or tornado. Monolithic domes have been proven to withstand both of those where houses just next door were torn to shreds.


stick framing is about as weak as you can get, it's not
surprising that they cant handle a 120mph windload, fact of the
matter is tornadoes are unpredictable, I've seen stick framed
homes left untouched whole others around them were splinters, a
class3 tornado will take out a monolithic dome, class 4 or 5
will uproot the fucker and drop it on the nearest school


What proof do you have of this? I'd like to see it.

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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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Damn $30,000?

I'm about to build a house in a couple months for about $20,000 out of shipping containers about 3 times the size and its definitely hurricane proof. I'm going to cob the outside and put a roof on it so it doesn't look like a shipping container and so I can collect rain water and so I can have an attic.



You can get 40 foot ones delivered for 3000 easy.

I do enjoy round homes (I lived in a yurt for little while) but I'm surpised they can't make it cheaper than that. You could probably build a straw bale dome and put a roof over it for $8,000 if not way less and cob it to have an outside texture like this:



It really makes me want to build a strawbale dome now that I think of it, if you build it small enough you don't need building permits in my county because it is basically in the same category as a shed.

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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: DNKYD]
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http://static.monolithic.com/gallery/homes/reynolds/index.html


wow. this is a really nice monolithic dome home.


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Re: Can you say Styrofoam Dome Home? [Re: LeftyBurnz]
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http://static.monolithic.com/gallery/homes/young/forsale2008/index.html


holy shit, this one is even more badass. its freakin huge and entirely underground!  this is the perfect property and house for me. ive honestly dreamed of living in something very similar to this!

:omgawesome:


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