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Originally Posted by Whiskeydan
Tab's (my better half) parents built the 3200sq ft dome they currently live in.
Acoustics are really weird inside as there is an obvious focal point just outside the upstairs guest bedroom.
Looks like a roofers nightmare.
Really odd, dated structure in my opinion.
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Even back in the Whole Earth Catalog days, people were saying they were a major PITA to roof. I can imagine they have their uses but housing is not one that jumps to mind.
A Hot Springs resort I used to live and work at, Harbin Hot Springs, north of Napa, built a center for the massage school there, or rather the massage school built it, and it was a disaster.
Ended up costing over $5 million (?!?) and was not too efficient in the floor space dept. I went up to have a look see during construction (I had moved away maybe 4 years before) and I could hardly believe the assininity of it. Imagine a volleyball balanced on a large teacup, say 5 inches in diameter. That was how they were building the damn thing. It would have made much more sense to drop a vertical line to the ground from the mid point of each dome but for some reason, they were fixed on making them near spherical. The end result looks like the method I describe but underneath that has to be some serious space wastage, or odd ball store rooms, at any rate.
The massage school eventually had to let go of the buildings, Harbin is using them for guest rooms now, and the school is up for sale. The founder of the school, Harold Dull, is a serious trip, has some notoriety for devising the water massage known as "Watsu" -- his term, but he obviously has no sense when it comes to architecture.