Nordic home encased within geodesic dome for passive solar
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- In 1960 American architect/designer/futurist Buckminster Fuller envisioned building a dome over Manhattan to regulate weather and air pollution. A half-century later, a Danish construction company built a Bucky Fuller-inspired “geodesic” dome in the center of one of Copenhagen’s largest plazas as an experiment in future living: single-family home and mini urban farm included.
“So the thinking of the dome itself and that was also Buckminster Fuller’s idea was: could you live inside a greenhouse,” explains the Dome of Visions founder Martin Manthorpe (of NCC Construction). The Danish dome, designed by architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen, is also meant as a challenge to our conventional ideas on housing: “to explore the idea of the greenhouse as a third space that is both inside and outside at once”.
At a time of increasingly strict regulations for home energy performance, Manthorpe sees the design as an alternative to ultra-thick walls; instead, the greenhouse serves as the “outside” of the wall and the actual wall of the house is “inside”.
The greenhouse was built with overlapping CNC-cut polycarbonate "fish scales". The home inside the greenhouse was designed for a family of 4 and since it’s protected from wind and rain it’s created with a minimum amount of resources and no glue or chemicals.
The geodesic or “omnitriangulated”, design popularized (and patented) by Fuller is inherently minimalist. It relies on Fuller’s concept of tensegrity, using tensional integrity (compression and tension) to make an extremely efficient structure that is strong while requiring little material. The Dome of Visions was inspired by the C60 molecule, AKA the “Buckminsterfullerene” or “bucky-ball” (a molecule discovered after Fuller’s death).
Manthorpe sees the Dome of Visions as not only a model for future housing for single families but on a larger scale, perhaps over a multi-family community or a city block. “When you look back in time in Buckminster Fuller’s era, in the sixties, I think that the dome was kind of equal to hippies and I think when that culture or whatever developed I think people forgot the dome and even didn’t think of that as a new way of living. I think it comes up now because we need to think differently when we think about construction and urban and city development.”
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this would bring window cleaning to a whole new level...
Indeed!
Probably scratched up after a few years
Need an army of Roomba for windows
@@AB-wf8ek Depends on the kind of windows.
@@laaaliiiluuu Polycarbonate is very susceptible to scratching
It be awesome to be able to sit in the dome in winter time, and feel as if you are outside while you read a book or watch a movie.
+Patrick Solomon Yeah it is! Was there for a small concert a couple of months ago.
+Kristoffer Raun so would you live in a dome covered house having visited this one?
No. It seemed very moist at the time I was there. Live just behind the white building in the movie.
@@kraun6473 Yeah, of course it was moist, it was a concert, so plenty of people
More then the 2+2 it was designed for
There is a canadian company selling insulsted dooms. Start at $10 000, but a decent size one is about $25 000.
Still they claim they can ad 30C temperature ontop of what it is outside
Imagine this with photovoltaic cells built into the panes, with reflectivity controlled by electricity, so that in the Summer it can repel heat and in the winter it can absorb it.
+Anton Seim That is what I was thinking. If you did this in the desert, you would need aggressive temp control. If you had fresh air intakes at the bottom of the dome that ran underground for a good distance ( in a grid or coil pattern with multiple levels) to come up to an outside pipe/vent, would the air be cooled enough to bring down summer temperatures when the top was opened?
The idea being that it would be a passive system requiring no power other than the roof vent mechanism.
Couple that with light control. Controlling the amount of light would be key but you would have to balance that out with the light (PAR) needs of the plants in the dome. If that could be mastered inexpensively, you could have mini farms under domes growing food year round in most places on the planet.
+leifcatt I think you're on to something :)
Anton & liefcatt... Thinking they say is the best way to travel... Moody Blues said that or was it Lebowski? Given the way my 401k has been bouncing forward and backward... There'd be no shame in buying shares in such technology. -gilpin 8-7-16
Survivalist dream house: A dome like this that could survive a hurricane
Too bad they didn't install a climate battery underneath the dome, Then, heating and cooling would be controlled by just a thermostat and a couple fans.
I am 59 years old, and I can remember when I was in 3rd grade: My teacher told us that there was a plan to encase New York City under a geodesic dome. The idea captured my imagination. and I wondered why the project was never started for years. What a wonderfully beautiful idea for living green. Sign me up!
Encase NY ??? That would be an impossibility dear.
Not anymore, @@valevisa8429
Polycarbonate degrades in sunlight in a process called “crazing”. It becomes discolored and brittle. There would be a lot of additional costs in maintenance just in a 15 year lifecycle.
A don’t you think buckminster fuller would have thought of this ?
Surely, modern materials science has solved that problem by now?
@@gedofgont1006 Sure, material science has fixed this...by making something else, not polycarbonate based. There's a certain point where the material itself is the problem. We probably won't see drinking water that doesn't freeze for example.
@@gormauslander exactly
@@wangfire7736 everything man made exposed to the sun degrades over time. As for new materials it takes time in the field to discover things like flaws in the manufacturing process and other factors not taken in by the engineers.
I had a 51 foot growing dome. Loved it. Fresh food all year. Even grew bananas here in Missouri without any supplemental heat. It was big enough that I did live in it to some extent. Had a bed in the forrest. With some forethought and mix of materials, one could make this very viable. This one is a clear bubble. Heat will go out at night as fast as it comes in. But if you built the north wall with insulated panels and include a heat sink, it would be very much improved. growing spaces domes have a tank for a heat sink, but for a livable dome, the heat sink could even be built into the floor of the home. Think hybrid of greenhouse and home purposefully melded instead of just sticking a home inside a dome. (granted this is a demo project on a busy road.)
Joe Himes You heard of earthships?
House needs thermal mass such as rock, concrete and dirt construction, then house will be warm all night.
Kirsten did an aquaponics video that started this way.
"I need water as a heat sync for my greenhouse... I need fish to eat the pests in the water... I need to get rid of the fish waste so I'll pump it on the plant roots... I need the excess water from the plants for the fish ..."
Why have I not met a man like you Joe ? Sigh. I don't get out enough, it's true. Wishing you all the best.
More detail on your setup,need to built one in Quebec Canada
I would like to see rainwater collection to use the rain that falls for watering plants and washing bathing etc
That would be easy enough: you'd just need a gulley around the perimeter of the dome's base and a reservoir or two for it all to drain into. No ugly guttering or plastic drain pipe needed.
Trough around the edge, fill it with a French Drain, then top it off with pea gravel. All water that hits the dome is collected in the drain pipe and taken to an underground cistern. Easy.
@@SingerGuy59 Hey! That's what I said, more or less. 😂👍
That’s a great addition. Customize
Collect the bird poop water?
A recirculating shower of packing peanuts would be awesome for Christmas time.
omg a giant snow globe! lol
too funny ;)
The same end can be achieved with bubbles, which are much easier to store when not needed:
solaroof.org/wiki/SolaRoof/SolaRoofTech
A certain Pixar short came to mind.
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Lol 😝 ty for this creative and ridiculous comment- tho highly impractical and environmentally suspect- it truly did give me a laugh out loud 😊
Have a good day, internet court jester
Great to see this very public project!
Maybe they just didn't have time to discuss it in the video, but it seems like they're focused on the "easy" problem (of course a dome insulates you from the environment), but how are the engineering problems dealt with, specifically, how is moisture dealt with? What's the life expectancy of those polycarbonate sheets? How is it cleaned (inside and out)? How much temperature regulation is necessary? What makes a dome more efficient than a square? What was the cost? How is snow and leaf litter cleared off?
Are you having high R H swings that can be handled without having to throw out heated air?
Yes need survey and answers...
Vents?
I love collecting houseplants and have dreamed of living in a conservatory or greenhouse. This structure seems to be the solution to being a yearlong gardener!Also learning about Buckminster Fuller has been very inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing this video.
This dome is AWESOME! 😁 Imagine many of them in a more rural setting. The way to connect them is with underground tunnels, passageways and living spaces. Could be an epic community setup! I would secure it more with back up protection from the elements. I would build ponds, waterfalls and tropical gardens. 🌿🙂💧🌱🌻🪴
Then you'll probably enjoy using gridshell architecture as well.
That would diversify the shapes in your community and not only have domes.
And of course for the different climates, I would suggest you look at the Eden project, if you don't already know it.
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I love your videos. this concept is by far one of the best you featured so far. Thank you so much for taking the time to share.
Thank you for doing these videos, Dirksen (& Team?). I love alternative archetecture, and your channel gives me a weekly dose :)
i love the concept, im from australia and id love one of these. on hot summer nights id love to be able to lay under that dome in a storm and watch the rain / play some music etc. its almost perfect harmony with nature.
I understand everything shown in this video is under research, anyway, it fills me with hope about the future when I see people working on this kind of stuff. Thank you so much Kirsten!!
is there a part two to this video? i mean a follow up from, i believe Stockholm?? I would really appreciate that :)
I imagine cleaning the bird droppings would be fun.
You could just have a small unit of cleaner drones.
Just don’t include birds in yours silly. Sheesh.
shoot the birds
Insects produce droppings too ... and you would have to get them inside the dome to pollinate your trees (otherwise they are quite useless).
Oh and imagine the spider webs, birds nests and all the rest you'd have to clean on the inside. Outside you might be able to build a robot which creeps over it for cleaning, but inside there is the support structure.
The term, “you live in a bubble” was my initial thought.
Buckminster Fuller's Universe by Lloyd Steven Sieden was a great read, and left me in awe of Bucky. Thank you Kirsten for all the great videos!
This idea would work well when paired up with the urban garden concept. Lots of garden containers, wall gardens and pillar gardens. Year round fruit and veggie production on city building roofs.
Definitely an interesting combination.
My boyfriend and I saw the dome in Copenhagen two summers ago, and were a little confused what was actually the point of it... It's nice to finally know!
+MissKriekentaart lol, leuke naam :)
Fantastic channel you've got here Kirsten. Really makes a difference and inspires hope for future architecture and sustainable living. Thanks.
I went to the party that they mention in the video. and although there were approx 150 people and it was misty inside the air remained fresh and a lot more comfortable than any other building I have partied in. there is an air-conditioning unit that they use for increasing circulation. I love this place and hope they build more around the world. who doesn't like the Mediterranean climate? :D
In Wisconsin we had a lot of those Buckminster Fuller geodesic houses. I remember seeing lots of them as a kid.
My friends parents built one. It's been endless leaks and black mold.
@@buildingwithtrees2258 I'm worried about a black mold problem in our house. I had to rebuild the bathroom and an entire floor under the bathroom because the last person that owned it was dirty. It's really nice now but black mold showed up on the ceiling downstairs under the bathroom even though everything was replaced and coated with a permanent anti mildew. It's really really hard to get rid of that stuff.
@@dickJohnsonpeter Hydrogen peroxide will kill the mold
Not meaning to be cynical or snide, but I notice your use of past tense.
@@jasondaniel918 You're right, i don't see any geodesic dome houses now and I used to see them quite a bit.
I am working on an idea with deltoidal faces fitted into a 4 frequency dome. It would need 1920 bars for 480 frameworks. I made some different designs with fusion 360 to get the exact angles, and i planned a miter saw table to make the production very easy and for a very exact repeatability. And, the outer surfaces i thought about to use acrylic glas and wood with one layer of GFK like wooden boats are protected from water. I would like to share pictures of my drafts and i am very interested in experiences from others!
Would acrylic be better than polycarbonate?
Great video, thanks. It's the best use of the geodesic structure that I have seen. You have all the advantages of the sphere - rain and wind shielding with the minimum of structural material - and none of' the disadvantages - fitting square storage into a round space. Perhaps a small improvement might be to clad the top and Southern portions with solar PV panels to moderate the summer temperatures.
I could not make out their rainwater management system. Where does the run-off from the dome go?
+Jeff Harmed it looks like the base support is about 6 inches above the ground so I guess rain water goes straight (or curved) to ground. Personally, I would use a 4 -6 foot riser on the sides for height in classic dome home fashion and catch the water. there are so many great uses for rain water and here in Florida we get so much we have to let most go to overflow.
This must be the most exciting futuristic project I have ever seen
30+ Celsius in summer here 90% of the time, can not even watch this without sweating. :D
Capillary action and wind driven rain would make those plates leak and drip.
I have read about Fuller. Leakage was an issue in Fuller's day. But I still like the creativity.
If you look closely at the polycarbonate joints, you can already see substantial green algae colonies have spawned. Clearly, there is a LOT of moisture getting in. But like the previous commenter, I applaud the interesting effort.
@@josephhook5468 The creativity is like _the Emperor's new clothes_ ... a lot of BALONEY for a lot of stupid things which people who ACTUALLY WORK with such stuff - gardeners who own a greenhouse or people who know about the practicality and non-space-saving of a round construction site - could see in about a few seconds. Polycarbonate degrades in a few years, scratches easily ... which then allows mold/moss to take hold. It is SHIT for this stuff.
Very cool. I love domes and I've built many of them from 804sf to over 6,000sf, but the ones I built were Monolithic domes, and built with an airform, polyurea foam, rebar and shotcrete. I really don't know why anyone would want to build a different kind of dome. The monolithic dome will last for 100's if not a 1,000 years, can survive 5 TIMES the force of an EF5 tornado with 300 mph wind, they can't burn up, and they heat and cool for almost nothing.
The standing joke is they heat with a candle and cool with an ice cube.
I built a 3,000sf dome for my friend in northern Wisconsin and he said he heats it for less than a dollar a day in the winter, and he's not the only one. There's a dome in northern Idaho that's 1,600sf and they heat with two 1,200 watt electric heaters. That's heating a home with basically TWO HAIR DRYERS. They said their first heating bill was just $99 for the whole year and the next was $110 and has always been between those to figures ever since and it was built in the 90's.
Plus FFEMA has given them what they call "NEAR ABSOLUTE PROTECTION" rating and have funded many tornado shelters all over the country. The schools that are built have said that just in energy savings alone, the school will pay for itself in less than 20 years and we're talking schools that are 110,000sf.
This dome here is very cool for a green house, but not to live in like they're doing. Keep up the great work.
I know this is a 6 year old comment, but how would a dome house work in a climate like Las Vegas? Would it stay cool in the summer and warm in winter?
I bet those people in the office space are getting some quality work done.
This is a fantastic idea. I've considered this kind of structure. But, I'm thinking of making the North side and part of the top opaque so as to limit insolaration in the summer, and the radiation of heat out during night and/or winter. The amount of insolaration would be naturally changed by the sun's angle during the year.
from someone who owns a greenhouse dome; you should have built the frame with steel. The wood will rot from the humidity.
Steel wil rust and the outside is some sort of metal
Would it not depend on the type of wood? Some wooden boats have lasted hundreds of years.
There is an Asian flame treatment that makes it more hydrophobic as well as insect repellent.
@@nathanxxvii The wood looks cool after you flame treat.
Presumably, your greenhouse is glass and not polycarbonate? - Also you can see that the polycarbonate is separated from the structure by 'stand-offs'
Great interview! I love this place and would live there in a New York minute! It would be great if those panels could also collect solar and rain water.
This is great stuff. I've actually had a residency done with young kids how to make a dome just like this using straws and pipe cleaners, covered some of the triangles with tissue paper. I could imagine tinting some of those hexagons, would be fun. I would like to see these mass produced so the price is reasonable for most people and then can be constructed where there's open space. Would love to see this in Chicago.
LOL, "without glue, no chemicals" standing right next to sheets of plywood :D
Yes with a plastic dome made from oil. Bwahahahaha. Typical leftist, loves wood floors but doesn't want to cut down a tree.
Hes obviously talking generally about not having to use treated lumber for the bulk of the building. Stop nitpicking.
@@onZampie Hes speaking so generally, that I might end up eating plywood or OSB :) I doubt that from practical standpoint, like termites, ants and fungus care. Also geodesic dome or not, you still have dew point condensation from air humidity.
@@Tachikomaster This idea that wood will rot immidiatley just by being exposed to some humidity is false. There are untreated wooden structures that have survived hundreds of years without any dome. Some moisture and dew isnt going to do anything as long as the wood gets to dry out which wont be a problem inside of a warm dome. Also this isnt a how to video. He doesnt need to explain every little detail so that people at home can follow along. He is giving an overview of a long project. Putting things simply by saying "no chemicals" in refference to most of the wood is completely understandable and most people will get what he means. Its about the context of the sentence. He was saying that because the house is covered from the elements it doesnt need chemical treatment. Its pretty obvious what he means by that statement.
Now I am curious how well this would perform in a Canadian Winter.
Nathan Peters Clark you could email local professors and ask?!
Shatter like frozen polycarbonate
They had a better example of this idea that had been created by real people without millions of dollars to waste. It was called "Family wraps home in greenhouse" And it worked fine in a northern climate.
What people don't get is if you keep the weather out you get geothermal right through the ground. I am in Toronto, and my garage only rarely freezes because heat comes up through the slab, even though the slab is exposed to the weather around the edges.
Our crazy swing to warm temperatures would make this hot!
the Pacific Domes are used in Hawaii as well as Alaska so I think as long as you accommodate to each season it'll work.
What has happened with the experiment
This was several years ago???
Eventually one of the inhabitans become crazy and hunted down the rest of the family in a snowy labyrinth outside the house with an axe. There were no survivors.
Roof caved in after snowfall 🤣
It’s not there anymore as a large building is built in its place. It’s has moved around Denmark before settling in another part of Copenhagen where it functions as a visionary workshop, owned by a communications company.
Absolutely love this space. So healing. Thank you for sharing...
This is really cool to see. I have wished for years that I could put something like this over my house.
Possible, tarp between wire mesh panels, with rebar reinforcement, any size, and shape,
Those should be placed on the top of flat roofed urban buildings and used as greenhouses. During the winter the flue gasses from the combustion of natural gas used to make hot water and heat the buildings could be vented into the dome, heating the dome while the combustion gases which are carbon dioxide and water feed the plants. These domes could function as green areas for the buildings tenants to go during winter. Obviously the flue gas inflow and outflow would have to be managed while people use it. Since these structures are relatively light, they may well be able to go on the top of many buildings that had not been designed to take any major loads on the roof or another story.
Love it. It would be great for private individuals that understand the risks involved (making sure the chamber is breathable before you enter it), as a public project, I would be concerned about less intelligent people passing out or dying because they forgot to bring in oxygen before they entered... You could probably figure a failsafe tho... like, when you open the door, it automatically (mechanically, not electronically) opens a hatch in the roof, and then closes it again when you leave... something like that. Great idea tho... utilize the co2 before it even gets to our larger atmosphere...
That sounds like a great idea so long as you have a way to quickly vent the dome for people going into it to work.
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I worked on designing structures like this with the Dome Co in the UK, we did several similar constructions, biggest was the Kneehigh Theatre. I've always thought the best way to reduce CO2 footprint and cost is to use less materials, use geodesic structures, triangulation and generative design with either natural or fully recyclable materials. Plus these structures can be designed in such a way as to be relocated and re-purposed, lightweight relocatable, reusable structures is by far the best way to reduce CO2 and materials wastage. I still plan on buying some land and designing myself a geodesic house with lots of house plants inside one day.
thermal insulation (winter/summer)?!
Need link of your project
So damned cool! Solid engineering and creativity to help meet the demands of a changing world.
I would love to do this NOW. The year round gardens would be a dream. But the cost... can’t imagine it’s for anyone but the rich.
He said it would pay for itself in 6 years of energy saving.
I really dont think that's realistic though.
Plus look at the space the whole thing is taking up, would not get many in our street lol.
The idea would work in some places though I am sure.
Material costs and construction for a dome are really low. There can be loss in material because of the weird angles you have to cut but in general ifs a cheap way to build.
@@pituitarymuffin5423 interesting you say materials are cheap. Don’t know where you are but here in US, lumber has sky rocketed.
@@summerbreeze6441 the idea being that a done uses less materials, albeit with some waste because of the weird cuts
Hexagon is the bestagon! Interesting concept
This is exactly what I am looking for. I need plans.
love how they filled it with weed plants
Too hot to grow anything else. He needs to greatly update the garden area needed to be self-sufficient.
Why do we not have small communities under large domes by now especially in cooler climates.
TheJunkyardgenius
Great question. I am more interested in creating a family home like this
Pammie from Chicago
Unfortunately business is rarely driven by engineering efficiency. It's more about creating and saturating a given market with products, even overproducing and ending up throwing huge number of products (and the sold ones carry the cost of the over-production and inefficiency) ... similar story with cars, even electronics.
Probably one of the few exceptions is airplane industry, where because of the costs and low profit margins they're forced to be max. efficient ...
No wonder Buckminster Fuller opened one of his lectures with this question:
"Why don't we build houses, like we build airplanes?"
Current one is terrible economy model! :/
It has to be changed, and with the climate change already happening rapidly, it's an urgent need to change that stupid model.
It might be probhibitively expensive to a community dome and there'd be alot of practical concerns.
Earthship communities would be a more practical option, high insulation on 3 sides and then a separated greenhouse section at the front south facing side. That regulates the temperature whether it is hot or cold outside. The glass needed is kept to a minimum and you can go outside for fresh air.
An accidental fire would cause catastrophic results.
I want to do that, somewhere in Scandinavia. I just don't have money and don't live there 😂😥
Love this. Its a small version of what we really live in, a stationary Geocentric Earth with a Firmament dome above.
Lol
I'm just impressed that their society dedicated a prime piece of real-estate to a highly experimental permaculture, architecture, dome, worker coop, impromptu music venue. In the US that would have never been built; and if it had it would have been a starbucks or mcdonalds with mandatory security guards making sure people didn't jump, climb, or "loiter" around the structure for too long.
I've had this idea in my own "thought design sessions". Also, for more dense urban developments, a series of stacked, extremely large platforms that contain a series micro-neighborhoods where homes can be built. These homes also don't need as much protection since the platform provides the basics. The micro-neighborhood gives basic protection from rain and extreme sunlight (or let sun in depending on climate). Maybe it is fully enclosed? Partially?
The neighborhood has no large vehicle traffic. Maybe there is a basement level for deliveries and vehicle parking/reception/departure.
9:04 you measure it over the course of a year when the novelty has faded.
"If you could digest wood, you could actually eat your home." Brilliant.
Am... never thought a sentence like this would ever exist or have been spoken 😂
😄😄😄
Flies frequently nest in piles of shit and also eat shit. Some flies do actually eat their homes.
Amazing project.Great video. I would like to know the conclusions ,after more then 2 years experience, is this a enviroment to daily living and how expensiv can it be a new one.
So in love with this concept!!
I own a green house. The first hot sunny day it would become uninhabitable without adequate venting.
Did you watch the whole thing? They can open the top. There is a built in hatch.
There seems to be a vent on the top if the dome.
Apparently you didn’t watch any of the video because multiple times you can see the obvious hatch on top of the dome. Yeah...they’d really build this thing without ventilation 🤦♂️
@@MasterMayhem78 Well, I saw it later, so my statement is still true, and I saw no reason to change the post.
This is close to what I have imagined my dream house to be. House in a greenhouse. I don't know about the lifespann of the polycarbonet though.
Don't worry about the lifespan of the polycarbonate, it will survive you ;)
(I would prefer glas anyway)
This is my concern as well. Polycarbonate yellows considerably in just 10 years with a UV coating. Glass would be preferable, but it is heavier and more dangerous if it breaks, unless you go with safety glass. I would not want to have to buy all new polycarbonate every 10 years. That would suck.
This is a great idea, I want one for my family!!!!!
I love this! I'd put a tiny house made of mostly glass inside and fill the dome up with plants and even have trellises or trees over my tiny house. I'm a bit worried about odors, toxins from the dome's panels, or other bad air such as mildews.
so glad i stumbled across your channel, im not quite sure who you are or why you do these videos but theyre great
+Lupin QL Kirsten's videos are very enjoyable for a few reasons. It's about the subject, not about her, yet it becomes about her and people like her. There is no distracting music or other annoying "optimisations". All ideas are visited without exception, for self sufficiency, peaceful harmonic balanced satisfying human interaction with each other and nature. These videos are up to the minute, provoke thinking and fresh ideas, while giving people from different walks of life opportunity to tell us, the viewers, what their projects are about.
I go past this almost every day. Never been in it though, but i might pop in for a visit.
Amazing video Kirsten.
When did you visit Copenhagen?
+Morten Jensen September... takes me awhile to edit some of this.
+Kirsten Dirksen
Thanks for the answer Kirsten.
I imagine you have more than plenty on your plate, with the family and traveling the world meeting theese amazing people!
I really admire your videoes, so many wonderful ideas and ways of living out there.
Have your ever done a tour of your own house? I've often been womdering how you live.
Best regards
Morten
+Morten Jensen
so happy (:
Hi Kirsten, amazing video and project.
I am just wondering would you know the suppliers/builders who could supply and built this dome?
Thanks in advance
beautiful, thank you.
I would miss the natural air flow that this design seems to block.
You can add servos to open various panels for getting airflow as desired and temp control.
@Andrew Benz Yes a near living thing :) for life.
The dome air without the pollutants and having trees has cleaner air than outside the dome. You can always install large fans mounted to simulate wind.
Openable panels in most greenhouse designs for summer ... so ... yeah pretty common. This is mean for winter remember.
Also just cross ventilate with two doors open either side if necessary.
Because your current living arrangements doesn't?
Might have big problems with off gassing of construction materials and worse, stove gas, propane gas etc. collecting in the confined space. You'd have to rely on sensors and alarms entirely.
Probably uses electric for all that, especially since it requires less heating with this setup. The rest is easily handled with occasional venting.
Great concept, look forward to seeing a dome made from a resin mold that does not need an internal structure!
I realize you would need an airship to transport the product, but let's hope it's an electric one.
A new type of boat house? Where manufacturing and supply would be easier!
More of this please! Wow!
You can see the mold, grit, and grime building up between the plastic panels. I wonder how often you would have to clean the panels and how much of a pain it would be.
+Darren Devine the plants need sunlight, mold isn't good for your health, and it would look terrible.
Mrs: " Honey, the windows have to be cleaned this weekend, actualy not only the windows "...
Mr: " "...
This is great! If only it caught up and city planners made it a norm.. No more mosquitos and safer playgrounds.. water collection and recycling; urban gardening and fishing..
I hope to live to the day when our entire cities are under these kind of domes. Beautiful vision!:)
Love this! thank you.
Explain how you made the plywood without glue?
Imagine a whole domed city, especially as we develop stronger materials.
ew
Everyone living like caged animals
@@fkrr5 seems fine to me tbh. Allows for more natural materials inside and no freezing temperatures for a half of a year. Huge swaths of Earth could become inhabitable. I wouldn't mind living in Alaska inside one of these.
@@danesovic7585 I think it could create a complete lack of freedom. Can you imagine the types of restrictions they could create if you wanted to leave the city dome..could be like 1984
@@danesovic7585 Reminds me of the movie Bio Dome..funny movie
I have stayed in big domes at remote radar sites in Alaska. Granted they aren’t plexiglass, but with freeze thaw and high winds they leak like hell. There is a reason we build structures with an overhanging roof. I built double stud R40 walls R60 ceiling and over 200sqft of glass on the south wall my energy consumption is about a third of a similar sized home. It won’t leak as I have hidden seam metal roof.
I want to build one of these for my next house, fed up with huge heating bills in these Scotish winters
I think the only place that takes measuring happiness seriously is the Kingdom of Bhutan, whose monarch declared that it was important and necessary to evaluate the GNH (Gross National Happiness) of the population to see if the policies of the country were working.
If this would be implemented in all countries, I think it would be very benificial to humanity, since greed doesn't make anyone happy (it almost is a medical condition), but does make alot of people unhappy by direct and indirect consequences.
Dubai also has a minister tasked with happiness as his portfolio.
When govt start quantifying HAPPINESS you're looking at fascism. Bhuntan is notoriously a police state same goes for Dubai.
Is there an estimated cost of just the dome itself?
Too much ... because you have to replace the polycarbonate every few years due to it degrading, becoming brittle and getting scratches. Do not bother with it and stick with glass, which will be REALLY EXPENSIVE but will last, AND with STRAIGHT SIDES!
@@Muck006 I still would like to know if they have an estimated cost.
I love this house and would live in one like this in a heartbeat.
This is absolutely fantastic 😍 I love it what a way to live with nature and safe from freezing ..Grow your garden 🏡 all year round...
"It's actually only the imagination that sets the limitations." Ehh, have you ever heard of planning permission?
He is talking about "not wasting space" and then they build a ROUND DOME ... which - if you were to put another one next to it - would WASTE LOTS OF SPACE inbetween them. These are IDIOTS / "artists" who design the stuff so he can sound smart and talk about the C60 molecule. It is "the Emperor's new clothes" ... where the BALONEY sells the product.
The core principle is fine, but these "artists" are too stupid to implement it properly / sensibly.
@@Muck006 Hmm.. let me guess, you live in a box with a box education.. obviously you never thought outside of it, and imagination has never visited you.. and you didn’t even think of the question Conor spoke of.. Conor Fenion the house itself is a normal planning permission situation, then addressing the dome it is considered a temporary structure.. no problem since it can be removed at anytime, you would have to check your planning commission in your area…The dome structure is hurricane resistant up to 150 mile an hour winds.. as in any round building…
I’m looking at this from the standing point of it allows me..and eco friendliness, people with allergies and sound pollution, gardening year round.. There is another CZcams of a house I believe in England it’s not a dome but a house is a glass structure and has existed for years and they love it.. Happy Life.. Stay safe and healthy
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Think bigger with 240° angle wedge .Solar Panels clading exterior outer dome and inner dome with air circulation between the two domes creating a chimney effect with water trickling down the exterior in sheets on North side wedge giving evaporative cooling effect.
The North side wedge could have reflective mylar film and LED lights illuminating inside of large geodesic dome. 😎
chemical free house is absolutely a brilliant idea id like to see more of these houses
What a brilliant concept. I can just imagine being under that dome and feeling right at home!😁
Some idea of costs would have been useful, though.
polycarbonate ain't cheap lol
Living in a greenhouse in NYC in the middle of summer would be fairly miserable if not deadly.
This would be true in the way shown here .. but he mentions a different idea .. that of burying the structure (which would mean about 4-8 ft below ground level .. so you can pick up the geothermal temps. So .. what that means is .. the ambient temp of the earth is about 50 deg. and it doesn't take a lot to heat or cool it from that temp. I actually have a hole dug in my back yard 40 ft. in diameter .. and 8 ft. deep .. planning to erect a low dome over it .. a greenhouse .. and it also has a 3 ft deep pool inside too.
Imagine it in Houston... LMAO...
@Mr Brightside .. true .. but I think the idea was to build structures that would cover a city (maybe start something new nearby and learn from it).
@Mr Brightside ... yes .. just doing it for a small farm covering an acre or two .. maybe even just a house on an good sized garden lot would tell us plenty!
That's if it doesn't have any vents >_>, no proper greenhouse has no vents, you would have the inlet vents at ground level and the out let vents at the top, creating a air current flow from bottom to top.
Well done living space, I would certainly love this opportunity to live in a dome environment
This may create an environment for people to feel comfortable moving to cold climates. Great idea!
I want to see what happens to that polycarbonate 10 years from now. That thing will became so yellow that it will look like a city-size pimple.
IT won't take 10 years, much sooner. And brittle too.
I can't imagine it will stay clear very long, very easy to scratch
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"There's no chemicals in it" EVERYTHING IS CHEMICALS.
Yes, but you should be able to parse the intended meaning here. The materials used are the materials used. There aren't additional chemicals.
Solar - No Chemicals mostly seems to be referring to Caulkings, Seals, Paints, and Coatings, that "Gas Off", polluting Indoor Air!
Yep, this dome is made of wood & perfectly natural carbon steel & POLYCARBONATE (wtf)
HAHA right! :D
@@roidroid Still pondering how they made the plywood without glue?
I love how you cover it with the Polycarbonate sheets.
One question, do the Polycarbonate hexagones and pentagones lie on the spherical surface or directly on the underlying wooden structure or do you spacers anywhere?
The panels are on the surface of the framework. 👍
I see a ton of potential for them to have a circulation system from the top of the dome, that would pull down air in the winter and the could reverse to push up cooler air in the summer. The fact the whole thing is temporary with no geo-thermal really takes away from the potential of the overall design.
It's a starting point.
I could live in a greenhouse with no problems
I’m looking at land to build a walipini for my retirement home’s patio/backyard
This reminds me of slaughterhouse five when Billy Pilgrim is living on Tralfamadore
I wish I could live somewhere like this!
I love the concept. Some thoughts:
Are the polycarbonate panels UV-resistant? How often would they have to be replaced in a more sunny environment? Do they get weaker or more fragile over time? How good is their fire resistance (e.g., forest or brush fire in the country, nearby dwelling fire or arson in the city)?
Have you considered using a steel hexagonal frame for the shell doors? That should add more strength than the rectangle with less mass per element, and would be more intrinsic to the overall structure. (You could insert a conventional door frame within it, and even add sidelights.)
One could also hang solar panels from the shell in a pattern to block direct sunlight within (for sunnier regions), or on the solid house walls (although, there are developments in transparent solar panels, which would be prime for the outer shell).
I would want to have a bbq in the dome, but that would probably ruin air quality. A wood stove would also be very complicated.
There was some discussion about the possibility of having the house extend through the wall of the dome on one side .. which would allow a chimney etc.
The house is trapped like carrots.-The Simpson
It’s an amazing building technology for cold countries I guess all the rain water is being collected and used for their own..so u can have you own vegetables and heat in winter..very ecological living..amazing 👍🏼
That is interesting and i can foresee some awesome designs for this such as a making the home inside the geodesic dome a geodesic dome too. Also a geotangent dome within a geotangent dome will have people looking in awe.