I really like having hot running water and a shower in my home. Lets say that I'm willing to pay extra for this.
The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in
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#52For those who want to work on their projects and live cheap, I've seen:
Live in your car and have a hackerspace and gym membership: http://www.quora.com/Would-becoming-homeless-be-a-good-strat...
Hide out at AOL office
Be homeless in Swedish forest
Move to foreign country where it's cheaper to live
Move to a dome
Added it to the list!
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#53While 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…
How are two traditional houses going to house 20 people?
I've stayed in this house 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.
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#54If you want to live in a city, it's not the cost of the house that kills you: it's the dirt.
In Seattle, where I live, my property tax statement tells me that my (large, nice) house is worth roughly half as much as the land it sits on.
Given that these domes don't float, you still need a place to put 'em. If your goal is to opt out of the cost of housing - an evil which this blog post expounds upon at length - your first order of business isn't so much "what to live in" but "where is it going to be".
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#55First acceptable use of the word "synergy" I've seen in a long time!
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#56The efficient-home problem has already been solved. We call them manufactured homes. They're cheap, and are actually up-to-code for long-term living.
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#57In my country I'm not sure what the legal situation would be - as I understand it you can't just throw up a trailer park where you want. And a plot of land with permission for a permanent residence is worth about half the cost of a house. What's the legal situation in your country? Have you ever invited girls home, and if so how did they react? I think your dome looks awesome and fascinating, but I don't know if ever…
> Have you ever invited girls home, and if so how did they react? Some standup comediant joked that if women agreed to have sex in cardboard boxes, men wouldn't buy houses.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. I'm curious as to how the bathroom is laid out, where you go for any and all of those purposes. This "house" is missing a lot of viable (standard) infrastructure to be considered what we usually call a house in North America. It's closer to that of a very small travel trailer, or a tent. All in all I still love the idea.
I suppose standard infrastructure is out of scope. "If you are considering a canvas dome, teepee, or yurt you should consider building a frameless dome" For bathroom activities, I would suggest some kind of humanure solution.
looks to me like it doesn't have a bathroom and you are supposed to go outside (or in an outhouse).
I'm also curious how this will hold up against strong weather conditions... heck even light weather conditions
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are two traditional houses going to house 20 people?
I've stayed in this house 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.
Wow, that's a huge looking house. How is that more efficient though?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please read the post. My post is essentially a response to the many problems of building domes.
You ignored the vast majority of the practical problems pointed out in the parent link. Plumbing, roof pitch, acoustics, privacy, ventilation, insulation, etc.
I think plumbing was solved by not including it. Acoustics can be solved by not having a loud child living in there with you as can privacy. Ventilation, insulation, etc, all easy to deal with if you don't concern yourself with building codes.