PaulB wrote:
The Eco-dome is a good plan, but in my opinion, the bedroom side domes are too small, at least for someone well over 6 feet tall as I am.
That's a fair point.
We plan to take the basic concept and enlarge it. The central dome in Khalilli's Eco-dome has a 15 foot diameter. In "Earthbag Building" By Kaki Hunter and Donald Kiffmeyer, its stated that the largest corbelled dome
should not be more then 20 feet diameter. So we plan on making the Central dome in our eco-dome with a 20 ft diameter, and increasing all outer domes in proportion.
Watch the "Jordan" video I linked to above and you can see a clever way to use the bedroom niches. In that video, it appears they had a custom
mattress made, that conforms to the entire area of the bedroom niche, and storage is available
under the mattress. She sits in the bedroom, which gives you a decent idea of its size, (it appears large
enough to sleep someone over 6ft tall comfortably) she also implies that she
and her kids sleep there, implying that its fairly spacious.
Just this weekend I took some marking paint and a chain, and drew the floor plan out on the ground in my back
yard, just to get an idea of scale. My concern was less with the bedroom niches, and more with the kitchen niche. In that same video, I mentioned. we see those niches applied to a very sparse kitchen. While I believe I could be fine with the bedroom as is, I do not believe I (nor my wife) would be happy with such a tiny kitchen.
Unfortunately, I still found the proportionally-enlarged kitchen niche fell short of the size kitchen I would prefer. Needless to say, we're still on the
fence on what to do about it. More chin-scratching required...
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