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goobster  ·  1392 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 1970s 'bubble palace' in the south of france is for sale

Friend of mine used to live in the "Foam Dome" in Colorado, and I got to visit him there a couple of times. All hand-constructed from chicken wire and steel frame, oversprayed with foam and concrete. Not a right angle anywhere in the house. This is the only article I can find on it, and the site is a spam-shit-hell of a site, but it is interesting.

https://www.9news.com/article/features/dome-house-silverthorne-can-be-rented/73-41d7f245-7376-4114-9fef-35c6ec30a889

And here's a YouTube video of it from a news report:





kleinbl00  ·  1392 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Domes are theoretically awesome and practically awful. Something like 50% of those ever built have been abandoned.