Charlotte Vermont Dome

[Luisdrewwendy]

Hi I liked the design. That shape of dome is called what? Show the floor layout? It looks just perfect model for northern towns to blend in without looking strange. I would love to see the floor plan of it!

[Dome Dragon]

Hey Luis Drew and Wendy (hope your three people and not one with multiple personalities....LOL)

Couldn't find a floorplan but have found a site that tells more about the Gay's and the community they are building in.
Apparently they are in a planned eco-friendly community called "Champlain Valley Cohousing"....here's the link that tells all about it from the mission statement to community photo's.

http://www.champlainvalleycohousing.org/index.cgi

And a Bio page on the Dennis and Trisa Gay

http://www.champlainvalleycohousing.org ... le=Gay#bio

We are indeed "Million Year Old Carbon".... and we have to get ourselves back to the garden........

[Luisdrewwendy]

yes we are 3 people --loved ur joke about my user name! Big thank you for this info. Hoping they will keep posting their progress of building that dome.
wendy

[ldobbins]

Dome in the news...
Check the article on this Dome Home.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps ... /710290320

[DJS]

Is the basement of this dome made with an airform? Because on Monolithic's site it shows some sort of conventional forms to make the basement wall.

[Dome Dragon]

I assume the basement is formed from a "Stemwall" which is a circular concrete wall made with forms, similar to the method of a poured concrete foundation in framed houses. Then an airform is attached and inflated on the top of the stemwall to finish the shell.

The style is called "Orion" and it particularly appeals to me as you can easily build multi-story domes that make more sense where land is small and expensive....

Orion Link.....
http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/homes ... index.html

And an entire Village of Orion type dwellings would be an "Oroville"..?

Oroville link....
http://www.monolithic.com/domenews/2001sum/india.html

"Domies" can get guarded with their designs same as French Chefs or holders of famous recipes for Barbecue Sauce.....sometimes you have to piece these things together with scraps of evidence you spy along the way.....

[3dO]

The domes in New Oroville are not built using the "Orion" stemwall system. They are built in what MDI calls the "Titan" design. The stemwall is airformed along with the dome, creating a vertically straight but horizontally curved wall that flows smoothly into the dome.

The "Orion" method creates flat wall sections, connected at the ends, that have a ring on top to connect the airform to.

[Dome Dragon]

Thanx for the information on the Titan design John....I thought those Oroville's rounded lines where far too smooth to be a seperate stemwall with airformed top.....They should have called the community "Titusville"....LOL


Here's a link I found to "The Hindu".....India's national newspaper, with an article and photo's of "Oroville".... It contains the only image of the interior of one I have found to date.....

http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/01/21/stor ... 780100.htm

[DJS]

On http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/homes ... index.html they show a dome house that was built using an airform consisting of a 36' diameter hemisphere on top of an 18' stemwall. Half of this stemwall was under ground. That part formed the basement walls. On http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/homes/gay/pic02.html they show the forms of the Charlotte Vermont dome's basement wall. The Charlotte Vermont dome is 36' in diameter. Why didn't they simply incorporate the basement walls as part of the airform as they did in the Clark dome?

[Dome Dragon]

Does anyone know how far along Dennis and Trisa Gay are with their Dome project in Vermont? They seem to have gone off the radar as I cannot come up with any returns searching multiple cross-references regarding same on the computer......