geoship.is
Startup building luminous, non-combustible bioceramic dome kits. Bold vision; pre-mainstream, so treat performance and pricing as vendor claims.
bioceramic prefab emerging
Directory
Resources
A rabbit hole with a handrail — 24 links across 8 categories, from suppliers and educators to geometry tools. Inclusion is a starting point for investigation, not a technical endorsement. Links and commercial offerings can change.
Bioceramic / next-gen
Newer systems: read the reports and ask about delivery.
Aircrete
Foamed-cement systems, equipment and education.
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domegaia.com
Hajjar Gibran's aircrete company and its 'Little Dragon' foam generator — a resource for DIY foamed-cement dome systems. Workshops and plans.
aircrete diy workshops -
aircreteharry.com
Prolific aircrete builder and educator with equipment, tutorials, and build videos for owner-builders.
aircrete diy tutorials -
steveareen.com
A personal account of an owner-built dome in Thailand. Historical self-reported costs are not a current budget for a different site or specification.
inspiration low-cost story
Geodesic kits
Buy-a-kit paths — timber, aluminium, polycarbonate, glass, composite.
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pacificdomes.com
Long-running maker of fabric-covered event and dwelling geodesic domes; a common entry point for glamping and event domes.
kit fabric glamping -
naturalspacesdomes.com
Timber geodesic home kits with transparent pricing and planning guides — a solid reference for insulated dome dwellings.
kit timber homes -
domehome.com
Decades-old timber geodesic home-kit manufacturer (domehome.com), with an established owner community.
kit timber homes -
ekodome.com
Aluminium-frame geodesic kits and hubs spanning greenhouses to homes; parametric sizing.
kit aluminium greenhouse -
growingspaces.com
Polycarbonate 'Growing Dome' greenhouse kits engineered for year-round growing — a good real-world read on translucent-shell performance.
greenhouse polycarbonate kit -
biodomes.org
Architectural glass geodesic and freeform domes — the high end of transparent shells, with the thermal trade-offs that come with glass.
glass architectural kit -
fdomes.com
Polish maker of insulated glamping and dwelling domes with a clean, well-documented product line.
kit glamping insulated -
intershelter.com
Fiberglass-composite portable dome shelters — rapidly deployable, insulated panelized domes.
portable composite shelter
Monolithic / sprayed concrete
Specialist shell systems; performance depends on the specific design.
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monolithic.org
The definitive resource on airform + shotcrete monolithic domes — construction methods and case studies. Hazard performance must be established for the particular design.
shotcrete disaster-resistant reference -
binishells.com
Air-inflated concrete shell technology (Bini system). Explore the proposed system and ask for completed examples and site-specific engineering.
concrete air-formed engineering
Earthbag / SuperAdobe
Hands-on earthen construction, training and technical resources.
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calearth.org
Nader Khalili's institute for SuperAdobe (earthbag) domes — training, plans, and resources explaining the scope and conditions of its SuperAdobe evaluation.
earthbag superadobe training
Fuller & geodesic theory
Where geodesics came from, and the landmarks that made them famous.
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bfi.org
Keeper of Fuller's legacy — Fuller’s work popularizing geodesic domes and his synergetic geometry. Deep archive and design-science resources.
history geometry fuller -
parcjeandrapeau.com
Fuller's iconic Expo 67 geodesic sphere, now an environment museum — the most famous geodesic dome ever built.
landmark fuller history -
edenproject.com
The Cornwall biomes: giant geodesic ETFE 'bubble' domes housing rainforest and Mediterranean climates — geodesics at architectural scale.
landmark etfe biome
Inspiration & community
Real builds and encyclopedic hobbyist knowledge.
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mymodernmet.com
A cob house built inside a glass dome above the Arctic Circle — an inspiration with a crucial distinction: the living spaces are inside a separate inner house.
biophilic glass-dome story -
domerama.com
Encyclopedic hobbyist resource on every facet of dome building — coverings, hubs, math, and coverings-that-actually-stop-leaks.
reference community diy
Geometry & software
Calculators, generators, and hub systems for actually building one.
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desertdomes.com
The classic strut-length calculator for 2v–6v geodesic domes — enter a radius, get your cut list. A rite of passage.
calculator geometry struts -
acidome.com
Powerful online geodesic calculator with connectors, coverings, and 3D preview — the modern successor to strut-length tables.
calculator 3d geometry -
extensions.blender.org
Official Blender extension for generating geodesic and hexasphere geometry — directly relevant to this repo's .blend workflow.
blender generator geometry -
ziptiedomes.com
Hub-connector systems and calculators for building geodesic domes from EMT conduit or wood — practical, buildable hardware and math.
hubs calculator diy