3rd Floor for the Dome

So after more research and some specs from Monolithic Domes I made some changes. First off this height of the dome would have a 34ft or more center height. This means I can get 3 floors within each resident area.

The picture you see is the actual Arch for a dome of this size. ON the side view the blue bars are a height of 6 ft to give some scale to this design.

The view from above displays each floors area, and the grey areas represent less than 6 ft of height due to the arch of the dome.

I have also displayed a floor layout of a 16 unit dome.

The first floor would have the vertical outside wall with a door, and hopefully with as much glass as possible. A single sky light over the living room for added light. Further in comes the dining room and kitchen. Then a bathroom and last the utility and storage room. All water and appliances reside on the first floor.

The second floor would have a normal staircase going up from the first floor. At the top of the stairs would be a spiral stair case going to the 3^rd floor and a door to the bed room. This bedroom would have an outside window in an area that bulges out from the dome. This gives the room a window just as old school houses have. Not correctly labeled in the design is a sky light in the 2^nd floor bedroom also.

The 3^rd floor would be reached with a spiral staircase, and would not have a door to close. This would make a smaller bedroom or an office. The sky light on the 3^rd floor would be at a level of an adult so it could also be used for emergencies.

So the design progress’s, even though I had no means to see this built back when this design was created. I had thought that by now I would have been able to. So that’s why I’m posting these old design I made now. I will continue these posts in the order I had created them until I’m all caught up, just wish I have 5 million to start building these…..  

Mike Gallagher