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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kits are running at 60 a month (average price: $6,500). The company expects to gross between $3 million and $5 million this year and is planning to expand overseas. Like other dome makers, the company sells mostly to people who intend to use them as primary, year-round homes. Since a competent handyman can erect a house himself, with muscle power from family and friends, a spacious, three-bedroom dome built from a kit can cost as little as $25,000 (not including land...
...Ball. Living in the round is not exactly new. Cave dwellers, Kurds, birds, bees, Bedouins, medieval Irish monks, Indians, Eskimos, Zulus, lighthouse keepers and leprechauns, to name a few, have tried it. But it took the genius of R. Buckminster Fuller, now 81, whose brilliantly engineered structures were used as radar domes on the arctic DEW line after World War II, to demonstrate conclusively that for the material used they are the strongest and most efficient way to enclose space. Moreover, they cover maximum volume with minimum surface area. Ergo, it takes less energy to heat or cool a spherical...
...reputation for leaking, though manufacturers claim that this should be no problem if the home is finished by an expert roofer. They are apt to be noisy, since they usually have few of the interior partitions that muffle sound in a traditional structure. Fitting rectangular furniture into a round house also poses problems; many dome dwellers build in tubs, beds and cabinets shaped to fit the walls...
Trees and Clouds. All of which, to round-homers, is like discussing Chartres in terms of beam load. They speak lyrically of the feeling of spaciousness, of an almost mystical airiness induced by living under a skylight. A Los Angeles dome-ophile, sounding like Gerard Manley Hopkins, talks of skylights filled with "towering trees and billowing clouds dashed with birds in flight." Ken Niboli, a California real estate broker who lives and works in separate domes, puts the case even more compellingly. "I feel," he says, "like I'm always on vacation...
...must not have a baby. That would mean that another woman has proved professionally unreliable. We were pioneers at college, and now everyone is working except one girl who's married to a law student. And everyone says, 'Poor Karen. She's really gone round the bend...