Dome Living : A Creative Guide For Planning Your Monolithic Dream Home

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Summary: The Dome Lifestyle
Review: Dome Living is a book intended for the audience who is already convinced of the superior structure of the monolithic dome. Complementary to the technical side, it appeals to the right-brained with the "art" of the dome. The photos in the first half illustrate just how beautiful the dome curves can be designed, as opposed to the "box" house orientation. The 91 pages of floorplans provide plenty of ideas for your own dome.

Rating:
Summary: The Dome Lifestyle
Review: Dome Living is a book intended for the audience who is already convinced of the superior structure of the monolithic dome. Complementary to the technical side, it appeals to the right-brained with the "art" of the dome. The photos in the first half illustrate just how beautiful the dome curves can be designed, as opposed to the "box" house orientation. The 91 pages of floorplans provide plenty of ideas for your own dome.

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Summary: A must for those considering dome construction!
Review: Dome Living is mostly for people planning a single family home, though it does touch on the issues of industrial, religious, educational, and recreational construction uses. This book is technical enough to understand exactly what the dome process is about, and if more info is needed, it has plenty of contact information to get your questions answered.
The photos are excellent, and show the potential beauty and versatility of style of Monolithic domes. Anyone familiar with geodesic domes could easily see the greater advantage and beauty of these concrete shell domes.
My only wish is that the section on houseplans included more mid-sized homes.

Rating:
Summary: A must for those considering dome construction!
Review: Dome Living is mostly for people planning a single family home, though it does touch on the issues of industrial, religious, educational, and recreational construction uses. This book is technical enough to understand exactly what the dome process is about, and if more info is needed, it has plenty of contact information to get your questions answered.
The photos are excellent, and show the potential beauty and versatility of style of Monolithic domes. Anyone familiar with geodesic domes could easily see the greater advantage and beauty of these concrete shell domes.
My only wish is that the section on houseplans included more mid-sized homes.

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Summary: Not exactly as advertized
Review: The book claims to be a "guide for planning" a home but really it is an advertizement for the Monolithic Dome Institute which sells them and runs workshops on them. However, there dozens of plans of dome structures that have been built or designed using this product so its a cool book to look at if you love house designs like I do. What would have been better is for each plan to have a picture of the house as it looked built.

Rating:
Summary: Not exactly as advertized
Review: The book claims to be a "guide for planning" a home but really it is an advertizement for the Monolithic Dome Institute which sells them and runs workshops on them. However, there dozens of plans of dome structures that have been built or designed using this product so its a cool book to look at if you love house designs like I do. What would have been better is for each plan to have a picture of the house as it looked built.