Dome Houses

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.

The Japan Dome House - a prefabricated concept home by i-Home.
The 'Xanadu' Concept Houses made of polyurethane foam at Kissimmee, Kentucky
The Hobbit House, Wales built by Simon Dale as an environmental project.
The Dome, Tatsfield, Kent - a four bedroom family house built under a geodesic domed roof in 1986.
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.
The “Spaceship House” of La Selva Beach, California—built by landscape architect Mary Gordon between 1969 and 1972
Eye Of The Storm, Sullivan Island, SouthCarolina. Also known as the Star Wars House.
‘MaisonBarnard’, South of France by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag..
‘The Boob House’, 16 Whitfield Street, Lancelin, W Australia
The Flintstones House, San Francisco, California built by architect William Nicholson In the 1970s for a tech-industry family.
Dome beach house in Pensacola,Florida.
The Dome House 2011, built by owner Robert Gaukroger and his family and featured in C4’s Grand Designs.
Eco-home built for Naomi Campbell on Isla Playa De Cleopatra in Turkey by architect Luis de Garrido.
‘Floating Island’ Houses to be built by the Seasteading Institute on French Polynesia

Spherical Houses

There is little rhyme or reason to this selection

The aluminium 'Dymaxion House' designed in the 1920s by Buckminster Fuller. It was intended as a sustainable, affordable mass production home.
Kugelhaus, A concept house by inventor Johan Lodowici from 1960.
The Futuro House designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen.
‘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
‘Bolwoningen’ or ‘Bulb Houses’ Netherlands by Dutch artist and sculptor Dries Kreijkamp

Dome & Sphere Houses in Film, TV & Media

The dome cityscape in Logan’s Run.
Luke Skywalker's boyhood home on Tatooine
'The House You'll Live In In 1989' Illustrated by Gurney Miller in Mechanix Illustrated 1957
A'Future Home' illustrated by the Belgian chocolate company Albion in the 1950 for collectors cards given away in chocolate boxes