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Revision as of 16:56, 10 October 2020
Here at Chimni we are happy to admit that very little about this page makes sense. That is not to say it is not important. The characteristic of being round is not necessarily one that has had an important impact on the history of housing development. It is also a difficult category to break down into sub-groups although many of them do fall into the slightly broad category of Homes Of The Future and quite a few also appear in the Moving Or Floating Homes category. For our Wiki we have adopted that 'domed' and 'spherical' has the same meaning.
Dome Shaped Houses
A specific subset of 'round' houses, the Dome is surprising common for futuristic and concept housing shapes but actual residential domes are relatively unusual because of the cost and difficulty of construction.
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The Japan Dome House - a prefabricated concept home by i-Home.
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The 'Xanadu' Concept Houses made of polyurethane foam at Kissimmee, Kentucky
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The Hobbit House, Wales built by Simon Dale as an environmental project.
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The Dome, Tatsfield, Kent - a four bedroom family house built under a geodesic domed roof in 1986.
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The Dome House of Marco Island, Cape Romano, Florida built in 1980 had the Island underneath it washed away by Hurricane Andrew and Irma leaving it unsafe and abandoned.
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The “Spaceship House” of La Selva Beach, California—built by landscape architect Mary Gordon between 1969 and 1972
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Eye Of The Storm, Sullivan Island, SouthCarolina. Also known as the Star Wars House. .
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‘The Boob House’, 16 Whitfield Street, Lancelin, W Australia
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The Flintstones House, San Francisco, California built by architect William Nicholson In the 1970s for a tech-industry family.
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Dome beach house in Pensacola,Florida.
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The Dome House 2011, built by owner Robert Gaukroger and his family and featured in C4’s Grand Designs.
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Eco-home built for Naomi Campbell on Isla Playa De Cleopatra in Turkey by architect Luis de Garrido.
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‘Floating Island’ Houses to be built by the Seasteading Institute on French Polynesia
Spherical & Bubble Houses
There is little rhyme or reason to this selection
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The aluminium 'Dymaxion House' designed in the 1920s by Buckminster Fuller. It was intended as a sustainable, affordable mass production home.
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Kugelhaus, A concept house by inventor Johan Lodowici from 1960.
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The Futuro House designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen.
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‘Projekt Rondo’, 1966-67, a fiberglass pre-fabicated house by swiss architects Casoni & Casoni Architekten for the 1969 Exposition à la foire Suisse de Bâle
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‘The Bubble House of Minzier’ by French architects Claude Costy and Pascal Häusermann
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’Maison Unal’ 1973. 3 bedroom bubble house by Claude Haüsermann-Costy and Joël Unal.
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‘MaisonBarnard’, South of France by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag.
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‘Bolwoningen’ or ‘Bulb Houses’ Netherlands by Dutch artist and sculptor Dries Kreijkamp
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Pierre Cardin's Palais Bulles in Théoule-sur-Mer, France designed by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag
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The Graham Birchall ‘Bubble House’ Built in the 1980s in Karalee Queensland, Australia.
Dome & Sphere Houses in Film, TV & Media
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The dome cityscape in Logan’s Run.
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Luke Skywalker's boyhood home on Tatooine
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'The House You'll Live In In 1989' Illustrated by Gurney Miller in Mechanix Illustrated 1957
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A'Future Home' illustrated by the Belgian chocolate company Albion in the 1950 for collectors cards given away in chocolate boxes
See Also In Chimni
ChimniWiki Round Houses
ChimniWiki Homes Of The Future
ChimniWiki Underground Homes
ChimniWiki 'Moderne' Houses
Other Interesting Web Sites
http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/about-csm/futuro-house/
http://www.futurohouse.co.uk/about.html
https://twitter.com/o_houses/status/566717111624826880/photo/1
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/portable-globe-house-for-well-rounded-living/
https://roundhouses.wordpress.com/
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/your-own-inflatable-dome-make-it-from-a-kit/#more
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/prefabricated-house-for-defense-needs/#more
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/jackie-gleasons-round-house/
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/orange-peel-house-for-campers-fits-on-small-trailer/ (also in moving homes)
Books We Liked
Refurbishment Projects
https://www.behance.net/gallery/4146459/Refurbishment-of-a-1930s-House-Dublin
References
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