Dwapara Yuga : Dome Homes

The domes for the world charity is leveraging a modern version of the bucky dome for housing in the third world.

Domes as well as having a certain aesthetic and futurist appeal have a number of key properties

• Maximize enclosed space for the amount of building material used
• Maximize strength and fire resistance, classed as FEMA shelters and have very low insurance premiums
• Maximize energy efficiency, requiring little energy to heat and cool
• Cost about the same as similar conventional structure of same floor space yet require much less maintenance and typically last longer

From history, the domed buildings that come down to us are typically churches - the Vatican in Rome, St Paul's Cathedral in London and the Haga Sophia in Turkey, which suggest that the curved spaces they enclose have a contemplative quality not found in linear buildings.

The domed Pantheon built in 126AD in Rome is the building with the longest history of continuous use in the world. Its very name means 'temple of the gods', although it later became a Catholic Church.

These properties make domes Dwapara Yuga structures and interestingly they were championed by the Dwapara Yuga figure of Bucky Fuller and were an original feature of Ananda Village back in the late 1960's although the technology of the time was not up to the task.

In comparison, most conventional structures are just concrete sheds, in their own way as dehumanizing and uncreative as the rows of cubes in modern offices. The negative effect of such office environments was well documented in the book Peopleware which umasked the productivity of open plan offices as a lie that became 'truth by repetition', a tactic most closely associated with Joe Goebbels.