This week’s Tiny House in a Landscape is a unique dome home. Built from from sandwich section glass fibre reinforced concrete. It is 3.5 meters high, and 6 meters in diameter. Big enough for a tiny home, studio, or getaway.
The builder of this unique dome resides in the UK and says the following: This Dome Home could be a very posh or modern garden office or granny flat it could also be the answer to the world wide housing shortage.
To learn more about it visit their website: http://www.dingley-dell.com/dome_buildings
I look forward to “TIny House in a Landscape” every week as there is a lot of inspiration here. The builder of this weeks home is in the UK, his website is fascinating… gets me thinking about building a dome in the back yard, when I get a place of my own… I wonder if you can fit a Mini Cooper inside one of these… AKA the “Mini Garage”
I found couple of other sources of information as well…
These guys have been around since the mid 70’s, http://www.monolithic.com
And heres a sit with a lot of information on domes,
http://www.earthmountainview.com/domes/monolithic-dome-homes.html
Dingley Dell sounds so familiar . . . aha! Dickens’ Pickwick Papers! Interesting, kind of like a concrete yurt. Wonder if you could cover it with a bit of earth and plantings and make it look more like a hobbit house? Or it could be a new take on an “ivy-covered cottage”.
The website’s FAQs for domes goes to the FAQs for the African pots.
I was wondering if the domes are built on plain concrete pads or if they needed reinforcing.
Monolithic domes are built upon normal cement slabs, just like wooden house, etc. Check out http://www.monolithic.com/topics/homes
I would really like to see the inside of this. Are the inside ever shown?
I’m generally all about traditional looking homes, but for some reason I really love these dome homes. They look cozy and easy to live in. I like it!
I wasn’t able to get the “building” photos to load at all… any ideas about the process and how it differs from monolithic’s Eco-shell system ? I understand it’s intended for low tech building situations, but I don’t see if there is a form or support for the concrete to be troweled on by hand
Oh! I love this one!
I really love this too and would love to see how they have created the inside living space.
Awesome.
Looks like bilbo baggins lives there. I can see a flue, is there a small fireplace in there or is that a heater vent.
What a cool place. Thanks for posting. : )