Only if it is removable for repair and replacement, and only if you have an external spiral walkway so you can CLEAN the surface of ALL of them as well as service and replace. And only as long as the "done" is fire resistant.. as this is a common and frequent problem ELECTRICAL FIRES...
That would be terrible. When you want to upgrade your solar you have to remove the whole wall panel, and then you're limited to solar panels that slot into that same spot. Standalone, modular panels are ubeatable.
@@dzibanart8521 flowing water doesn't "clean" but merely leaves additional deposition of minerals eventually corroding and cementing in place along with mold and so on...going to need a spiral staircase inside AMD outside
Solar panels are black and collect heat, they also work best if they can angle towards the sun. For a dome, or any semi-spherical shape very little of the surface will be angled optimally for solar energy collection. Solar Windows are only semi transparent, but might be a good idea for south facing windows in warm climates, but the Cadmium Telluride they're made from might be counter to the ecological principles that Bioship espouses. As we move into new generations of solar panels (crystaline silicon -> perovskite -> quantum dot) this will likely change. It will likely take Bioship 8-13 years (or longer) to ramp up to millions of homes per year, and solar will be 2-4x the efficiency it currently generates per area covered, so a solar covered carport or trestle will be able to provide ample energy.
geodesics is Cosmos' natural 3D shape, having a geodesic home is the natural space to live in, blending not only with nature, but with spacetime, coming into contact with consciousness, disease free and at ease. Congratulations Geoship!
I bought Domebook 2 in the 70's and built a smaller 3V dome then. I like this concept a lot but want to see more details on how they seal all the joints since that has always been a major issue. Would love to see hub design, mechanics, etc of how these actually go together.
Read about CBCs, which is a new material category that wasn’t understood when Bucky was alive. The material itself is the answer to sealing the joints that have always been an issue with geodesics!
Thank you for this. RBF's vision in its birth stage. My first dome model was 1960 when I was 10. I have all his books. I also have a need for a dome upgrade to my crudely built cabin before the snow load of heavier winter snowfalls collapse it. Or else I fall off the roof when I have to shovel it to ease the load on the poorly constructed roof framing. Maybe I will live long enough to see this come to fruition. The world needs RBF ideas.
I, also, became fascinated with RBF's geodesic dome when I was 10. I never lost interest, but never found a suitable structure for my purposes. This design looks promising!
Lived in a 3o ft 3/4 dome (the purple dome at Pacific High) made with wood struts and crude asphalt roofing. It had a great loft and entry was a staircase through the floor. Had great acoustics but leaked terribly. Cool to see this living art form being advanced. It was part of a cluster an alternative community including a shower dome, separate bedroom domes and on the land…. Good times
How do connect wiring (usually in walls) plumbing, heating. How do repair it if a panel breaks (ceramics do break). The dome itself is aesthetically pleasing but a whole suburb full of these would look like Levittown on Mars.
I live in a more northern latitude, and most of the homes here have some kind of basement. Would there be much difficulty in building a full sphere with part of the sphere below the frost line?
@@raf-alski7637 There might be slight misunderstanding... He might have meant a circular foundation with the cylinder on top... Why bury part of your head room...
@@bosatsu76 because below the frost line ...underground... the temperature stabilizes , so temperature control becomes easier. you can still get lots of natural light underground (during the day, natch.) solatube.com/residential/tubular-skylights/
I hope they have success. In all honesty if I lived in tornado or hurricane or fire zones I would put aside style preferences and just go with these ceramic dome homes I wouldn’t lose. If the prices sr3 as low as 5hey say I just really hope it works out. The material is intersting. The theoretical interior design mockups are fantastic. It looks really good whether you like the geometry or not
Can't wait until these are available to the public! Looking to establish an early Christian-style modern co-op and these would be perfect. Have been following Geoship for quite some time and it's exciting to see the prototype. @geoship - I do have a question about the windows, if there will be custom sunshades/blinds available to block light and heat. Also if the windows are double-paned for enhanced temperature regulation. It's difficult to tell from the video.
Wow, that looks incredible. Great project for an off-grid option! I'm looking at an inexpensive piece of desert property, and am left wondering how it would do in the desert? Great project, I hope to be one of your first customers once your up and running. If you do tours, I live close and would love to make the trip. Thanks and good luck!
Huh, not sure, but I think it might be ideal b/c the thick walls will help keep it cool in the day and warm at night. Morgan would know better, although I don't know if they've tested it in multiple climates.
The domes will be awesome in the desert because the ceramic reflects over 80% of radiant heat (cool roof effect). The tight envelope could also enable an "adiabatic cooling" effect.
@@johnkoetsier"like an epoxy" ...sounds like a TOXIC OFFGASSING and chemical toxicity as it breaks down overtime NIGHTMARE in the making.... Can't wait. My lawyer is on speed dial
Please get more funding to put this on a faster track!! Abrupt climate change is here, and the world needs this yesterday! Funny, not funny. Please do another crowd funding round, I want to give a little...what I can do to support it. May the force be with you!!!!
I think best house is the house that made from local materials without overseas supplies and possibly to use own labour. For Australia I think best is rammed earth house, strong and most suitable and works well with Australian climate
Thanks Morgan and John ! I love domes and all the benefits .All the best for your plans.Only advice I would offer is stay away from big brother as much as you can future of humanity is in small communities without corporations called state or any for of big government.HPL to ALL !
Geoship wrote me to say they plan on delivery in 2025 not sure about outside US delivery times. Greetings❣️ from a fellow dreamer about geoship home ownership
I'd like to know how you are going to get city and county approval to build those as houses. Banks don't usually loan money for the unconventional mortgage loan.
I heard you can order one for not too expensive but there is already more than a year waiting list. But i cant remember where i read it. I think they are selling but low profile because they cant deliver too many right away. They are in their first year as a lean startup and only slowly scale up. Something like that? Im not sure.
This is a cool new cement manufacturing take on geodomes, but maybe I missed it, the bane of these things for the past 50 years has been waterproofing all those seams, it wasn't addressed at all in this interview, even though it's the #1 issue with domes?
Why is it that you never seem to show the inside. And what about the limitation on land and being to build it stacking to make more livings space per square foot.
" The base price for an 18-foot dome is $33,000, while a larger 1100 square foot dome is priced at $110,000. As manufacturing scales up, the company aims to reduce the cost of these homes by at least 50%." From: johnkoetsier.com/here-is-the-500-year-geodesic-dome-home-geoship-reveals-its-first-livable-home/
So, you say your going to show the beef, Did I miss a follow up? where you actually show details? Or the name of the building company or details on the results... Perhaps just a passing story..??
About the most unimaginative video on yt. And possibly one of the best ideas. Hand waving doesn't do much in the way of illustrating anything. But good luck all the same.
I've pondered this question a lot, too, and I think any wax / drying-oil / etc-sealed floor will necessarily be an electrical insulator, as well. There is this stuff called "waterglass" -> Sodium Silicate. You can buy gallons of it for cheap; It's a non-polluting, non-toxic solution which you can either "paint-on" to surfaces, or (in certain cases) mix in with concrete; It created a glass-like surface when painted on, and does the same from the inside-out when mixed with cement, reducing porosity. It's possible that the waterglass may allow for some Earthing effect while also sealing a concrete or cob floor... but it would take experimentation.
@@anhthubui318 they plan on building it from molds but dome homes in general let me look.... I'd Google dome home kits and go from there I'm pulling for you good luck my friend.
Yes, I agree it would be interesting to know the process and history of the material proposed to seal the joints. I will take "500" years as hyperbole at this stage...Cultural conditioning should also be taken into account in marketing. Having lived in a dome 30 days in the Fall at 57deg N light is more important than one might imagine. Plus, I hate to say it, I missed the defined spaces of linear walls and ceilings. I can see myself building a dome. But not everyone will feel comfortable living in the space.
i think the shell membrane of the geodesic domes is just that: a shell. to make wise homes with rooms and infinite fractal possibilities the other two basic shapes of spacetime besides the dozeneighteyes 'icosahedron' present in these domes, namely the complementary foureyes ('tetrahedron') and eighteyes ('octahedron') that together constitute the isotropic vector matrix of closest drawn spheres would be a wiser choice for the creation of interior rooms and such. the beauty of those is that they not only embody structure, therefore come with all the integrities missing in our current convention of 'cubes', they embody a synthesis of those 'straight' lines and the spheres as that is exactly what they are: the shapes created by the geodesic, meaning shortest, least resistance and effort, connections within the relationships of closest drawn spheres. to get a better sense of what i speak of, check out this introduction to spherical thinking, Bucky's Synergetics: ruclips.net/video/c7py3sqYM3s/видео.htmlsi=GQWeEktVd_-_AplL peace Struppi
1- ‘chemically bonded polymers’. Involves petrochemicals. 2- a sphere is the worst possible shape for usable space. Homes need dead spaces like attics, crawl spaces, wall interiors to run plumbing, wiring, ducting and more that can be modified, repaired, replaced. 3- The hippie generation Tried geodesic dome houses long ago. There are two of them visible from my house. The lesson learned was they Can Not be made waterproof reliably. This is because of how wind hitting a sphere can push water UPHILL, or to either the left or right as the path of least resistance. It’s why geodesic homes built in the past all have shingles covering the whole thing, and even then, they don’t keep water out. Window sealing is particularly a problem. 4- 500 year is a pipe dream, and not a worthy goal, especially for homes that can not have wiring, plumbing, or ducting easily modified. Try building a home that incorporates 5,000 years of human experience building shelters. A framed roofs with overhanging eaves work better. Vertical walls make water run in ONE predictable direction. Crawlspaces or attics allow for better insulation, and more flexible options for interior appointments and layouts.
1: they’re primarily using perlite and magnesium. 2: different design philosophy means different technology. 3: Many old cultures across the planet have used variations of round structures. Look at the US Natives that built grass house as just one example. 4: ceramic lasts a long time. Extra point, round structures are better for natural disasters.
@ 1-Perlite is not a polymer. It has the troublesome feature of expanding or contracting a lot when heated or cooled so it’s not dimensionally very stable. Magnesium is ALSO not a polymer, Its a metal, and a highly flammable metal at that. 2- Design philosophy has nothing to do with technology. I can make a dome out of carbon fiber, or I can make a dome out of stone. The plain fact is that MOST new technologies applied to building design have turned out to be problematic. From PVC plumbing, to central air, many create 2 new problems for each problem they solve. 3- No cultures other than hippies have made spherical houses. The floor plan being round versus square is NOT the problem ( except when trying to fit furnishings and appliances in it ) Its the fact that the WALLS and roof form a continuous constant arc. This means that even mild wind can overcome gravity and drive rain upwards or sideways around the curve. Which is why dome houses are infamously hard to weatherproof and keep weatherproof. Cultures that made round houses STILL made them with conical roofs that featured significant overhang on the eaves and Vertical wall. This design was not based upon ‘philosophy’ it was Evolved over centuries of practical experience at what kept water out of the house versus what did not. Modular triangular panels have to be weather sealed along their entire perimeter, And houses MOVE. They expand and contract with changes in temperature and barometric pressure and they FLEX under wind loading. For this reason it is the joints between triangular panels that lose their weather tightness and start to leak. There is no way to consistently Flash these joints that wind driven rain cannot get under because of their wildly varying orientations. 4- Vitreous ceramic lasts a long time. Like the ceramic your toilet is made from where it has been fired high enough to become glass. Low fire ceramics like terra cotta are porous and can absorb water and water can leak THRU them. Like porcelain tile, versus bisque fired tile. Porcelain is suitable for exterior exposure, but bisque fired ceramics will not survive a century outdoors without erosion, spalling, or mold intrusion. And high fired ceramics are neither cheap, nor environmentally friendly. It takes a LOT of energy to fire ceramics. Extra point. There is zero evidence that ‘round’ structures are better for natural disasters. A lot depends on the nature of the disaster. An earthquake will shake a dome apart as readily as any other building. The key to surviving earthquake is strong ties between structural elements that are somewhat flexible. ( ie wood framed structures survive earthquake better than brick. ) Round offers no real protection against floods, because floods to not break up houses thru their lateral force or pressure on the house, what they do is surround the house, creating buoyancy forces so strong that the house is Floated off its foundation, and once its no longer held in shape by its foundation, the house can flex and buckle in the current of the water. Water only has to get a couple feet higher outside the house than in to tear it loose thru buoyancy. A spherical house with no shingles on the outside might withstand the wind forces of a tornado or hurricane, but without the shingles it certainly WILL leak. But tornadoes also destroy houses by rapidly dropping the air pressure outside the house so its own internal air pressure will push it apart from the inside. And a geodesic house does not necessarily offer any greater resistance to this potential unless it geodesic are bolted metal bars. But that won’t prevent the triangular filling between them from popping out. Sorry. Houses have the shape they traditionally have based upon what proved to work. Spherical houses were tried back the 70’s and 80’s and people pretty much stopped building them because they did Not work. Harder to heat and cool, harder to remodel, harder to furnish, harder to waterproof. Look at the manor houses in England and France, or even the old cottages that litter their countryside if you want to see what design philosophy actually has proven to last 100 years, or more.
Absurd take: Concrete is a ceramic, brother and that holds up millions of pounds in every skyscraper and bridge you see. Besides.... 1) He is probably using an exotic Magnesium / Phosphate cement; They have an organic-like crystalline structure which not only has higher compressive strength but also high tensile strength. Look up "Sorrel Cement" -> They used to combine it with cotton powder to make billiard balls in the late 1800s / early 1900s. 2) He's implemented this into a geodesic dome; Any shear forces are handily redirected into neighboring components. 3) Combined with a few natural or synthetic fibers, or some rebar internal reinforcement... the cement beams would still maintain a low cost, and be ridiculously strong.
@@-_----- The panels used for these domes are relatively thin compared to concrete. Even reinforced, bioceramics remain highly brittle with low toughness and resistance to fracture.
@@immersionaccount6893yeah, there are two companies that I know of. I talked to one owner/designer and he said they were going back to wooden frames with bioceramic plates on the outside.
This dome takes the resonance effect of a drum and adds chimes! Oy, it couldn't function in community because it actuates sound!!! Making all vibrations an active quadraphonic environment. As if living inside a piano box. It amplifies instead of isolates exterior phenomenon. Not at all what people desire in a home. People expect homes to be sheltering from the exterior reality and not a function to accumulate and accentuate the exterior happening.
actually the interior texture surface breaks up and changes the reflection angle of the waves if you had took a closer look. yes a dome would focus all the waves at human ear level but the surfaces have been altered
Lower your costs… decentralize the process so all people can afford to make themselves. I built a 3 meter dome for less than 10k. Their price point seems just a some for the rich.
33 000$ for this dome ! I wish you'll share the receipe of the ceramic material, (in this ''social pretention'') as anyway the most expensive part of cost of housing is the land. Housing problem is caused by private ownership by the wealthiest, and speculation on it and building material.....
Just search the terms they used online. The primary components are perlite and magnesium. Both sourced CONUS. There are research papers on researchgate that have different recipes…
(Elon Musk didn't even get money from his father's emerald business. The lady who wrote that article about him was an infiltrator from the corporate agenda who tried to make him look bad as usual. Elon and his brother created a company from scratch when they transcribed the yellow pages into a website for people to look up names and businesses on the Internet when the Internet had just started. Then he took that money and created Pay Pal. He's a genius and works overtime.) Another great and sustainable way of building homes are the Earthship homes by Michael Reynolds. But the geodesic homes originally designed by Buckminster Fuller are definitely stellar structures.
@@itseyona Yes those are genius structures because they are sustainable for all times including high storms which are happening now caused by global warming and climate change.
Geodesic domes are much stronger than a traditional home usually much stronger but larger enough tree doesn't matter also same with a traditional house
Now make it a square and a rectangle then you will have something the masses will want to buy. You could even go with vertical walls and a doomed roof like a Quonset. The masses just are not going to buy into a round home. Nice to visit cool to see but not convenient as a home and all that comes with turning a dwelling into a home.
Melinda Gates donates a lot of money to certain causes, you might reach out to her and even Bill Gates and Warren Buffet might be interested in investing.
It really tells that the guest has a STEM background with no construction experience, so he has spent a lot of brainpower to optimize for the wrong parameter. A home needs to provide as much as possible horizontal space as possible, that also has: a moisture and heat barrier against the outside, controlled air intake (ventilation), natural light throughout, and durability. 1) A circular shape is terrible for moisture control, because as water slides down the roof it will have an opportunity to test every microcrack and joint, which are never absent because of thermal expansions and contractions. So you either remove windows, or make durable, hermetically perfect window joints, which shoots the costs of build and repair into the sky. 2) Humans can only use horizontal space, so circular shape is not the most efficient per useful space. In conclusion, this technology has good wind and earthquake resistance at the cost of everything else. There is also no research to support the idea that geopolymer concrete is more durable than classic high and ultra-high grade concrete. So the endpoint of this technology is going to be a more expensive monolithic concrete home.
It would be a nice "fancy" tall greenhouse for tropical rainforest type fruit trees, etc...or a barely useable/climate control nightmare for a yoga / meditation ...but other than the pyramid & geodesic "attraction" ...there is little else... Read another comment about *icosahedron* which is found in fascia in the body at the macro micro and nano scale repeating but not sure it can be applied on a structural building to any positive effect...as we rarely see any examples of such dynamic structures in large scales.
Outside is panels with sealing over each gap. The sealant is applied liquid bioceramic. When it’s done it’s basically one piece. Any cracks or issues down the years can be repaired the same way. Like sealing cracked concrete with liquid concrete basically…
Solar built into the wall panels would be perfect icing on the cake
Only if it is removable for repair and replacement, and only if you have an external spiral walkway so you can CLEAN the surface of ALL of them as well as service and replace. And only as long as the "done" is fire resistant.. as this is a common and frequent problem ELECTRICAL FIRES...
That would be terrible. When you want to upgrade your solar you have to remove the whole wall panel, and then you're limited to solar panels that slot into that same spot. Standalone, modular panels are ubeatable.
@@1truthseeking8 you could clean with water falling from the tipy top, so there could be pipes going all the way up there.
@@dzibanart8521 flowing water doesn't "clean" but merely leaves additional deposition of minerals eventually corroding and cementing in place along with mold and so on...going to need a spiral staircase inside AMD outside
Solar panels are black and collect heat, they also work best if they can angle towards the sun. For a dome, or any semi-spherical shape very little of the surface will be angled optimally for solar energy collection. Solar Windows are only semi transparent, but might be a good idea for south facing windows in warm climates, but the Cadmium Telluride they're made from might be counter to the ecological principles that Bioship espouses. As we move into new generations of solar panels (crystaline silicon -> perovskite -> quantum dot) this will likely change. It will likely take Bioship 8-13 years (or longer) to ramp up to millions of homes per year, and solar will be 2-4x the efficiency it currently generates per area covered, so a solar covered carport or trestle will be able to provide ample energy.
I can’t wait 16 years for the mass production of these
I spent many years in construction trades trying to explain this while concept to others as they rolled their eyes at me. Dymaxion home coming back!
People rolling their eye's were stuck in a box and brain dead.
geodesics is Cosmos' natural 3D shape, having a geodesic home is the natural space to live in, blending not only with nature, but with spacetime, coming into contact with consciousness, disease free and at ease.
Congratulations Geoship!
indeed. how to be free? be without the box. #thinkingwithoutthebox #sphericalthinking #synergetics #wayofthespheres
I bought Domebook 2 in the 70's and built a smaller 3V dome then. I like this concept a lot but want to see more details on how they seal all the joints since that has always been a major issue. Would love to see hub design, mechanics, etc of how these actually go together.
good question!
Read about CBCs, which is a new material category that wasn’t understood when Bucky was alive. The material itself is the answer to sealing the joints that have always been an issue with geodesics!
I invested $100.00 last year…need house NOW!..good luck dear GEOSHIP!
Can you direct me to info about CBC material…I’ve looked but can’t find.
@@Planet432 search for chemically bonded ceramics and you will find lots of info!
Geodesic Domes have been in existence for years. They are great!
Not years, decades. In fact, I believe somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 years.
Interesting to know how it is acoustically: like in a restaurant or cafe with box shape, lots of people all end up shouting to overcome the echoes ...
Thank you for this. RBF's vision in its birth stage. My first dome model was 1960 when I was 10. I have all his books. I also have a need for a dome upgrade to my crudely built cabin before the snow load of heavier winter snowfalls collapse it. Or else I fall off the roof when I have to shovel it to ease the load on the poorly constructed roof framing. Maybe I will live long enough to see this come to fruition. The world needs RBF ideas.
I will gladly take your home if you want to leave it to me or have me come and do maintenance or raise pitch of roof
@@1truthseeking8 Money is the issue. I am retired on low income.
I, also, became fascinated with RBF's geodesic dome when I was 10. I never lost interest, but never found a suitable structure for my purposes. This design looks promising!
Lived in a 3o ft 3/4 dome (the purple dome at Pacific High) made with wood struts and crude asphalt roofing. It had a great loft and entry was a staircase through the floor. Had great acoustics but leaked terribly. Cool to see this living art form being advanced. It was part of a cluster an alternative community including a shower dome, separate bedroom domes and on the land…. Good times
Didn't watch the First video, didn't watch the Second video, didn't read the story... Hey... That's me... Just came across my feed this minute...
Same
Incredibly excited for these homes and all the Regenerative Villages that will be formed with them!
Epic work Geoship!
We're enjoying seeing the progress on this concept. Looking forward to more as the journey continues. Thanks for sharing.
Salam, I really do believe that for both of you and the geodesic home have a promising future ! inshAllah
We need these MUCH sooner. I have a spot picked out!
(Will need a panel modified to hold a mini-split)
And the joint covers could be a 3d printed center of the flower of life, just the inner circle.
I'm almost afraid to ask, how much would a 30' dome cost if it were ready.
Also could it be built underground.
Thanks for this video. Lots of great stuff in here.
I've been following since the beginning. I've got my land, I'm just waiting on the technology.
I am curious, because I want to buy land that would allow me to build a geo-dome on the property, in what state is your property? TY :)
Sorry, I just saw your question. I'm in rural NC. My only restriction is no mobile homes, but modular and pre-built homes are okay.
How do connect wiring (usually in walls) plumbing, heating. How do repair it if a panel breaks (ceramics do break). The dome itself is aesthetically pleasing but a whole suburb full of these would look like Levittown on Mars.
Great vision, spirit, and mission. I look forward to this being a solution for the near future and wish them great success!
I live in a more northern latitude, and most of the homes here have some kind of basement. Would there be much difficulty in building a full sphere with part of the sphere below the frost line?
I'm guessing it would be more like a cylinder as a foundation to get below the frost line. Half burying a sphere sounds difficult.
I asked Morgan about that before and he said no problem at all.
@@raf-alski7637 There might be slight misunderstanding... He might have meant a circular foundation with the cylinder on top... Why bury part of your head room...
@@bosatsu76 because below the frost line ...underground... the temperature stabilizes , so temperature control becomes easier. you can still get lots of natural light underground (during the day, natch.) solatube.com/residential/tubular-skylights/
You could continue the sphere below the frost line. However, if the goal is a basement, a cylinder below ground, with a dome up top would be better.
I hope they have success. In all honesty if I lived in tornado or hurricane or fire zones I would put aside style preferences and just go with these ceramic dome homes I wouldn’t lose. If the prices sr3 as low as 5hey say I just really hope it works out. The material is intersting. The theoretical interior design mockups are fantastic. It looks really good whether you like the geometry or not
Can't wait until these are available to the public! Looking to establish an early Christian-style modern co-op and these would be perfect. Have been following Geoship for quite some time and it's exciting to see the prototype.
@geoship - I do have a question about the windows, if there will be custom sunshades/blinds available to block light and heat. Also if the windows are double-paned for enhanced temperature regulation. It's difficult to tell from the video.
I heard from geoship they plan on start delivery in 2025
Wow, that looks incredible. Great project for an off-grid option! I'm looking at an inexpensive piece of desert property, and am left wondering how it would do in the desert? Great project, I hope to be one of your first customers once your up and running. If you do tours, I live close and would love to make the trip. Thanks and good luck!
Huh, not sure, but I think it might be ideal b/c the thick walls will help keep it cool in the day and warm at night. Morgan would know better, although I don't know if they've tested it in multiple climates.
The domes will be awesome in the desert because the ceramic reflects over 80% of radiant heat (cool roof effect). The tight envelope could also enable an "adiabatic cooling" effect.
@@johnkoetsier"like an epoxy" ...sounds like a TOXIC OFFGASSING and chemical toxicity as it breaks down overtime NIGHTMARE in the making.... Can't wait. My lawyer is on speed dial
Please get more funding to put this on a faster track!! Abrupt climate change is here, and the world needs this yesterday! Funny, not funny. Please do another crowd funding round, I want to give a little...what I can do to support it. May the force be with you!!!!
I’m so glad to find your channel.
This guy is not the best spokesman for this... but this looks like one of the very best options out there. I'm really into this company.
I think best house is the house that made from local materials without overseas supplies and possibly to use own labour. For Australia I think best is rammed earth house, strong and most suitable and works well with Australian climate
My dreams come true with this technology and build possibility.
Love the idea. I think the extremly live acoustics might drive me mad...der.
Definitely will be looking for more info on these. How are they testing durability? What insulation and r value?
I like the space station look.
Thanks Morgan and John ! I love domes and all the benefits .All the best for your plans.Only advice I would offer is stay away from big brother as much as you can future of humanity is in small communities without corporations called state or any for of big government.HPL to ALL !
I love it. Building communities is also really important. We’re all too disconnected from other people. Prices?
Hey. I went to school in nevada city. This makes me homesick. ❤
Really need to know about the composition and production
When do you expect the dome to be ready to order and deliver. I live outside of America and Canada in Tbilisi Georgia.
Geoship wrote me to say they plan on delivery in 2025 not sure about outside US delivery times. Greetings❣️ from a fellow dreamer about geoship home ownership
I'd like to know how you are going to get city and county approval to build those as houses. Banks don't usually loan money for the unconventional mortgage loan.
Is anyone actually building and selling these or is this another fund raising stunt?
Both
They’re still in manufacturing development, but they have a very real engineering prototype (I have been inside it!).
Goodie 🎉
@@alligallixsee7821how do these pass building inspections and zoning requirements-esp in CA? How do you get permission to have these on your land?
I heard you can order one for not too expensive but there is already more than a year waiting list. But i cant remember where i read it. I think they are selling but low profile because they cant deliver too many right away. They are in their first year as a lean startup and only slowly scale up. Something like that? Im not sure.
Can you put a wood stove in there for northern climates?
Can these domes handle being semi-underground, or all underground?
Can these tolerate the weight of a living roof?
Is it stronger than concrete?
I'm more interested in a passive solar design, glass only on the south side.
How would you put a solar curtain on it.
interesting! not sure if you can pick no windows for a side, or something like that
How does it go together thats what I want to know
how are they heated
When will these be available for shipping?
When is the next update? It’s been a long while since I’ve seen anything new on RUclips.
Does it leak?
This is a cool new cement manufacturing take on geodomes, but maybe I missed it, the bane of these things for the past 50 years has been waterproofing all those seams, it wasn't addressed at all in this interview, even though it's the #1 issue with domes?
Haven’t heard any pricing but if you can build yourself that will save prob at least 30%. Maybe he will mention pricing before it’s over
beautifullllllllll!, when will they be available in France?, the future of holistic, disease-free housing
i can see this in the forest but in urban area with other building looking in at you or looking at other buildings I don't see it- but cool idea
Why is it that you never seem to show the inside. And what about the limitation on land and being to build it stacking to make more livings space per square foot.
how much do they cost
" The base price for an 18-foot dome is $33,000, while a larger 1100 square foot dome is priced at $110,000. As manufacturing scales up, the company aims to reduce the cost of these homes by at least 50%."
From: johnkoetsier.com/here-is-the-500-year-geodesic-dome-home-geoship-reveals-its-first-livable-home/
@@johnkoetsierand the R-value is?
How is it insulated?
So, you say your going to show the beef, Did I miss a follow up? where you actually show details? Or the name of the building company or details on the results... Perhaps just a passing story..??
I love the video 1st of all amazing work I can see it being the future of housing
About the most unimaginative video on yt. And possibly one of the best ideas. Hand waving doesn't do much in the way of illustrating anything. But good luck all the same.
How do you tank make the cob floor to prevent rising damp without losing the grounding?
I've pondered this question a lot, too, and I think any wax / drying-oil / etc-sealed floor will necessarily be an electrical insulator, as well.
There is this stuff called "waterglass" -> Sodium Silicate. You can buy gallons of it for cheap; It's a non-polluting, non-toxic solution which you can either "paint-on" to surfaces, or (in certain cases) mix in with concrete; It created a glass-like surface when painted on, and does the same from the inside-out when mixed with cement, reducing porosity.
It's possible that the waterglass may allow for some Earthing effect while also sealing a concrete or cob floor... but it would take experimentation.
What is the name for this company?
How do you properly seal or repair a leak ?
Paint the crack with liquid bioceramic.
I want a few of these on land I’m getting in North Carolina
1000th like and I'm definitely buying multiple of these as soon as they are ready, let me know where I can sign a letter of intent !!!!! :D
use stainless steel frame and Carbon fibre sheets to make domes
Carbon fiber sheets are kinda expensive, no?
Any links to more info ? Your guests contact info ?
This is my dream home..
Yep
Yes. By any chance do you know where I can start if I want to build this type of house?
@@anhthubui318 they plan on building it from molds but dome homes in general let me look.... I'd Google dome home kits and go from there I'm pulling for you good luck my friend.
Most important question what do they consider affordable lol.
Yes, I agree it would be interesting to know the process and history of the material proposed to seal the joints. I will take "500" years as hyperbole at this stage...Cultural conditioning should also be taken into account in marketing. Having lived in a dome 30 days in the Fall at 57deg N light is more important than one might imagine. Plus, I hate to say it, I missed the defined spaces of linear walls and ceilings. I can see myself building a dome. But not everyone will feel comfortable living in the space.
i think the shell membrane of the geodesic domes is just that: a shell. to make wise homes with rooms and infinite fractal possibilities the other two basic shapes of spacetime besides the dozeneighteyes 'icosahedron' present in these domes, namely the complementary foureyes ('tetrahedron') and eighteyes ('octahedron') that together constitute the isotropic vector matrix of closest drawn spheres would be a wiser choice for the creation of interior rooms and such. the beauty of those is that they not only embody structure, therefore come with all the integrities missing in our current convention of 'cubes', they embody a synthesis of those 'straight' lines and the spheres as that is exactly what they are: the shapes created by the geodesic, meaning shortest, least resistance and effort, connections within the relationships of closest drawn spheres.
to get a better sense of what i speak of, check out this introduction to spherical thinking, Bucky's Synergetics: ruclips.net/video/c7py3sqYM3s/видео.htmlsi=GQWeEktVd_-_AplL
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@@HaileISela Fascia has icosahedron and other...look for the poly dodecaicosahedron ...if I have that correct...
1- ‘chemically bonded polymers’. Involves petrochemicals. 2- a sphere is the worst possible shape for usable space. Homes need dead spaces like attics, crawl spaces, wall interiors to run plumbing, wiring, ducting and more that can be modified, repaired, replaced. 3- The hippie generation Tried geodesic dome houses long ago. There are two of them visible from my house. The lesson learned was they Can Not be made waterproof reliably.
This is because of how wind hitting a sphere can push water UPHILL, or to either the left or right as the path of least resistance. It’s why geodesic homes built in the past all have shingles covering the whole thing, and even then, they don’t keep water out. Window sealing is particularly a problem. 4- 500 year is a pipe dream, and not a worthy goal, especially for homes that can not have wiring, plumbing, or ducting easily modified.
Try building a home that incorporates 5,000 years of human experience building shelters. A framed roofs with overhanging eaves work better. Vertical walls make water run in ONE predictable direction. Crawlspaces or attics allow for better insulation, and more flexible options for interior appointments and layouts.
1: they’re primarily using perlite and magnesium.
2: different design philosophy means different technology.
3: Many old cultures across the planet have used variations of round structures. Look at the US Natives that built grass house as just one example.
4: ceramic lasts a long time.
Extra point, round structures are better for natural disasters.
@ 1-Perlite is not a polymer. It has the troublesome feature of expanding or contracting a lot when heated or cooled so it’s not dimensionally very stable. Magnesium is ALSO not a polymer, Its a metal, and a highly flammable metal at that.
2- Design philosophy has nothing to do with technology. I can make a dome out of carbon fiber, or I can make a dome out of stone. The plain fact is that MOST new technologies applied to building design have turned out to be problematic. From PVC plumbing, to central air, many create 2 new problems for each problem they solve.
3- No cultures other than hippies have made spherical houses. The floor plan being round versus square is NOT the problem ( except when trying to fit furnishings and appliances in it ) Its the fact that the WALLS and roof form a continuous constant arc. This means that even mild wind can overcome gravity and drive rain upwards or sideways around the curve. Which is why dome houses are infamously hard to weatherproof and keep weatherproof. Cultures that made round houses STILL made them with conical roofs that featured significant overhang on the eaves and Vertical wall. This design was not based upon ‘philosophy’ it was Evolved over centuries of practical experience at what kept water out of the house versus what did not. Modular triangular panels have to be weather sealed along their entire perimeter, And houses MOVE. They expand and contract with changes in temperature and barometric pressure and they FLEX under wind loading. For this reason it is the joints between triangular panels that lose their weather tightness and start to leak. There is no way to consistently Flash these joints that wind driven rain cannot get under because of their wildly varying orientations.
4- Vitreous ceramic lasts a long time. Like the ceramic your toilet is made from where it has been fired high enough to become glass. Low fire ceramics like terra cotta are porous and can absorb water and water can leak THRU them. Like porcelain tile, versus bisque fired tile. Porcelain is suitable for exterior exposure, but bisque fired ceramics will not survive a century outdoors without erosion, spalling, or mold intrusion. And high fired ceramics are neither cheap, nor environmentally friendly. It takes a LOT of energy to fire ceramics.
Extra point. There is zero evidence that ‘round’ structures are better for natural disasters. A lot depends on the nature of the disaster. An earthquake will shake a dome apart as readily as any other building. The key to surviving earthquake is strong ties between structural elements that are somewhat flexible. ( ie wood framed structures survive earthquake better than brick. ) Round offers no real protection against floods, because floods to not break up houses thru their lateral force or pressure on the house, what they do is surround the house, creating buoyancy forces so strong that the house is Floated off its foundation, and once its no longer held in shape by its foundation, the house can flex and buckle in the current of the water. Water only has to get a couple feet higher outside the house than in to tear it loose thru buoyancy.
A spherical house with no shingles on the outside might withstand the wind forces of a tornado or hurricane, but without the shingles it certainly WILL leak. But tornadoes also destroy houses by rapidly dropping the air pressure outside the house so its own internal air pressure will push it apart from the inside. And a geodesic house does not necessarily offer any greater resistance to this potential unless it geodesic are bolted metal bars. But that won’t prevent the triangular filling between them from popping out.
Sorry. Houses have the shape they traditionally have based upon what proved to work. Spherical houses were tried back the 70’s and 80’s and people pretty much stopped building them because they did Not work. Harder to heat and cool, harder to remodel, harder to furnish, harder to waterproof.
Look at the manor houses in England and France, or even the old cottages that litter their countryside if you want to see what design philosophy actually has proven to last 100 years, or more.
In Australia tiny house at least $100.00
Cool!
2nd all jokes aside the bold head guy looks like the actor who playing the thing on fantastic four 🤣🤣🤣💯
Door frame looked helluva lot like wood to me.
Ceramics are known for being BRITTLE and FRACTURING when structures settle or in earthquake...or even high wind forces...
yep this wouldnt last under a hail storm.
Absurd take: Concrete is a ceramic, brother and that holds up millions of pounds in every skyscraper and bridge you see.
Besides....
1) He is probably using an exotic Magnesium / Phosphate cement; They have an organic-like crystalline structure which not only has higher compressive strength but also high tensile strength. Look up "Sorrel Cement" -> They used to combine it with cotton powder to make billiard balls in the late 1800s / early 1900s.
2) He's implemented this into a geodesic dome; Any shear forces are handily redirected into neighboring components.
3) Combined with a few natural or synthetic fibers, or some rebar internal reinforcement... the cement beams would still maintain a low cost, and be ridiculously strong.
@@-_----- The panels used for these domes are relatively thin compared to concrete. Even reinforced, bioceramics remain highly brittle with low toughness and resistance to fracture.
@@immersionaccount6893yeah, there are two companies that I know of. I talked to one owner/designer and he said they were going back to wooden frames with bioceramic plates on the outside.
He built a prototype, concept house.
Another challenge is getting building and zoning laws redefined into reasonable, as opposed to profit based, concepts.
from Canada cold climate is affordable with our dollar now
This dome takes the resonance effect of a drum and adds chimes! Oy, it couldn't function in community because it actuates sound!!!
Making all vibrations an active quadraphonic environment. As if living inside a piano box. It amplifies instead of isolates exterior phenomenon. Not at all what people desire in a home. People expect homes to be sheltering from the exterior reality and not a function to accumulate and accentuate the exterior happening.
actually the interior texture surface breaks up and changes the reflection angle of the waves if you had took a closer look. yes a dome would focus all the waves at human ear level but the surfaces have been altered
You don't need augmented reality glasses. Just send a video to your DIY customers, with a demonstration.
I really wish more Big funders would invest! Love the idea
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Lower your costs… decentralize the process so all people can afford to make themselves. I built a 3 meter dome for less than 10k. Their price point seems just a some for the rich.
33 000$ for this dome ! I wish you'll share the receipe of the ceramic material, (in this ''social pretention'') as anyway the most expensive part of cost of housing is the land. Housing problem is caused by private ownership by the wealthiest, and speculation on it and building material.....
Just search the terms they used online. The primary components are perlite and magnesium. Both sourced CONUS. There are research papers on researchgate that have different recipes…
(Elon Musk didn't even get money from his father's emerald business. The lady who wrote that article about him was an infiltrator from the corporate agenda who tried to make him look bad as usual. Elon and his brother created a company from scratch when they transcribed the yellow pages into a website for people to look up names and businesses on the Internet when the Internet had just started. Then he took that money and created Pay Pal. He's a genius and works overtime.) Another great and sustainable way of building homes are the Earthship homes by Michael Reynolds. But the geodesic homes originally designed by Buckminster Fuller are definitely stellar structures.
Bucky’s structures were all aircraft inspired. Especially the Dymaxion Home. Genius structure.
@@itseyona Yes those are genius structures because they are sustainable for all times including high storms which are happening now caused by global warming and climate change.
Love everything about it besides the AI glasses shit lol
It’s greenwashing for an epoxy dome
This is VERY true. Noticed how he glossed over the TOXIC as F aspect of his environmentally pollutant building material...
@@1truthseeking8 Plant based epoxy?
@@1truthseeking8perlite and magnesium.
Brawo !!!!!!
what if a tree fell on it
It depends on the tree. It might bounce off, or it might do the same level of damage that would be done to a conventional house.
Geodesic domes are much stronger than a traditional home usually much stronger but larger enough tree doesn't matter also same with a traditional house
WOW
Now make it a square and a rectangle then you will have something the masses will want to buy. You could even go with vertical walls and a doomed roof like a Quonset. The masses just are not going to buy into a round home. Nice to visit cool to see but not convenient as a home and all that comes with turning a dwelling into a home.
Does not lend itself for rain water harvesting while sticking to no metal no wood concept.
Drip ledge at the bottom edge?
These aren't new. There are geo dome homes since the 70's .
Melinda Gates donates a lot of money to certain causes, you might reach out to her and even Bill Gates and Warren Buffet might be interested in investing.
It really tells that the guest has a STEM background with no construction experience, so he has spent a lot of brainpower to optimize for the wrong parameter. A home needs to provide as much as possible horizontal space as possible, that also has: a moisture and heat barrier against the outside, controlled air intake (ventilation), natural light throughout, and durability.
1) A circular shape is terrible for moisture control, because as water slides down the roof it will have an opportunity to test every microcrack and joint, which are never absent because of thermal expansions and contractions. So you either remove windows, or make durable, hermetically perfect window joints, which shoots the costs of build and repair into the sky.
2) Humans can only use horizontal space, so circular shape is not the most efficient per useful space.
In conclusion, this technology has good wind and earthquake resistance at the cost of everything else. There is also no research to support the idea that geopolymer concrete is more durable than classic high and ultra-high grade concrete. So the endpoint of this technology is going to be a more expensive monolithic concrete home.
It would be a nice "fancy" tall greenhouse for tropical rainforest type fruit trees, etc...or a barely useable/climate control nightmare for a yoga / meditation ...but other than the pyramid & geodesic "attraction" ...there is little else...
Read another comment about *icosahedron* which is found in fascia in the body at the macro micro and nano scale repeating but not sure it can be applied on a structural building to any positive effect...as we rarely see any examples of such dynamic structures in large scales.
Why push this so hard.....
We in the future now. 2025 mofos
the most important question, will it leak? because pretty much all domes leak, how is it sealed so it lasts?
Outside is panels with sealing over each gap. The sealant is applied liquid bioceramic. When it’s done it’s basically one piece. Any cracks or issues down the years can be repaired the same way. Like sealing cracked concrete with liquid concrete basically…