A workshop attendee shows what it means to be hands-on at a Monolithic Dome Builders Workshop. It’s more than a class; it’s an experience. Come get your hands dirty this September and join other dome enthusiasts in Dawson, Texas, building a real Monolithic Dome. Save $500 with the Early Bird Discount by signing up before Tuesday, August 16, 2022.

When the Dallas Observer wrote about the Monolithic Dome Research Park, they connected the domes to prepping for doomsday. That misses the point. We are not preparing for the end times; we are preparing for the end … of a good book, curled up on the couch, peacefully reading while a storm rages outside.

While writing about preparing for real-world emergencies I realized there is virtually nothing about our home, Arcadia, on this website. We built the home six years ago and posted several great stories on monolithic.org with pictures of its design, construction, and completion. It’s time to migrate and update the articles.

What is the practical, nuts and bolts process in designing a dome home? How do you get financing? This is our story of constructing a Monolithic Dome home.

Look over the nooks and crannies of this beautiful Monolithic Dome home with this photo gallery of over 30 professional photographs.

Monolithic Constructors, Inc. — or just, Monolithic — has a new website at monolithic.com. Well, it’s not entirely new. It’s more like a homecoming.

The first blog post at Monolithic.com features a gothic-style Airform. Planning and inflating augments like these is tricky because they require cutting a large hole in the dome, and then connecting to an almost perfectly vertical section of the gothic augment. Further complicating this Airform pattern are the varying shapes and sizes of the four interconnected domes. The main dome is spherical and the attached domes are elliptical—making the saddles between domes highly technical.