Stunning is the only word for it. It is a massive, red-rock coated Monolithic Dome nestled among the red landscape of Sedona, Arizona. The house contains 10 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a fitness room, a theater, a beautiful kitchen, and so much more. Used as a vacation rental, the home can host up to 22 people. Check out a beautiful gallery of the home and visit the realtor website because, yes, it’s for sale.

Normally we input diameter and height into a dome calculator and it returns the surface area, volume, and other useful measurements. For storage domes, it should also compute the storage capacity for a specific product. But what if we need it the other way around. If we know how much storage capacity we need, how big is the dome? That’s the question the pile cover storage calculator aims to find out.

When my wife came across a Monolithic Dome for sale in Northern Florida, it was on the market at a very good price because of prolonged water damage when the stucco system covering the Airform had failed. Due to the design of the openings, the cracking of the stucco had allowed water to compromise all of the exterior stud wall structures at each door. With my background in engineering and our joint experience in renovating spaces, we felt we were up to the challenge of restoring the dome.

Inflatable shapes are the basic components of Monolithic Dome design. If it inflates, it can be constructed … probably. There are two primary shapes that dominate dome design — the sphere and half-ellipsoid. However, these are not the whole design palette. Sometimes we need to go beyond the basics. or in this case, beyond half of the ellipsoid.

The Academic Papers section contains white papers, theses, monographs, dissertations, and other scholarly articles related to the Monolithic Dome, concrete dome, thin-shell, and curved architecture industry.

Monolithic Domes are amazing. The insulation, coupled with the concrete’s thermal mass, creates an atmosphere that is hard to describe. Simply put, it feels the same today as it does in the middle of summer. If you set the thermostat at 70 (21°C), it just stays there. During the two-degree, 24 hour period, my heater ran for a total of 9 hours. This is a small heater, with only 30,000 BTUs. Most homes the size of mine have 100,000 BTU heaters, but even my neighbors with electricity struggled to stay warm with heaters running nearly 24/7.