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While neat this seems to offer zero advantages in reality vs. traditional housing, unless you're a lone hermit living away from everyone else. Assuming you hav
by ebbv 13y ago
While neat this seems to offer zero advantages in reality vs. traditional housing, unless you're a lone hermit living away from everyone else.
Assuming you have 10-20 people to house, each person having their own dome seems less efficient than building a more traditional house with shared kitchen, bathroom, etc. facilities, since the dome cannot contain those, at least without scaling up significantly at which point its utilization of space becomes really inefficient.
EDIT:
To clarify I'm assuming that:
A) He's living a commune with this, and sharing cooking/bathroom facilities with others. Thus my comment abotu 10-20 people to house.
B) The point is efficiency/ease of housing people. I don't think a bunch of individual (or 2-3 person domes) is any more efficient than one or two traditional houses to hold everyone and all the facilities needed.
- grannyg00se 13y agoHow are two traditional houses going to house 20 people?
- ebbv 13y agoI dunno if you know this but you can build them pretty big pretty easily. And you can easily fit 2-4 people per bedroom if you build them spaciously and people are willing to sleep in the size of beds featured in the dome.
- sp332 13y agoI've stayed in this house http://i.imgur.com/EgZRY9g.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EgZRY9g.jpg It easily held 30 people. There was a large upstairs room with many beds side-by-side, and 5 other small rooms with one or two bunk beds each. This left the downstairs mostly open with a big kitchen, two medium-sized meeting/dining rooms, and a big classroom.
- grannyg00se 13y agoWow, that's a huge looking house. How is that more efficient though?
- sp332 13y agoWell for starters, the surface area per person is a lot lower. Even with framing and siding, it's probably less material per person than building a little bubble around each person. Certainly running 20 little air conditioners is less efficient than central air. Maintenance over time is probably lower. The big deal is that it uses way less land per person, partly by using a two-story design which a dome can't do.
- mmagin 13y agoThere are many people who would rather live in a tiny little shack than in a larger house with 10-20 other people.