🏠 The One-Room Dome

One big multifunctional room under a 5/8-sphere geodesic shell.

Cook, sleep, bathe, move, and grow plants in a single daylit volume — a design study, and an honest, cited resource for anyone thinking about building a dome.

🌐 Live site → crs48.github.io/dome

_{AI-generated concept (Grok Imagine) — the whole one-room idea in a single frame.}

No hallways, no spare rooms. A dome collapses a house into a single volume, and every function shares the same light:

The vibe lives in the AI-generated concept art and films — 15 "dollhouse" cutaways and slow interior fly-throughs, all made with Grok Imagine. They're the high-fidelity look at the one-room dome. Click a frame to watch on the live site:

_{GitHub READMEs don't autoplay relative-path video, so these are poster frames linking to the live gallery, where all 15 films play.}

Alongside the films, the design was blocked out in Blender one layer at a time — a bare shell, then a floor, a kitchen, furniture, rings, and plants. Rough, low-fi work-in-progress, shown honestly:

Plenty of sites sell domes; few compare them honestly. Full per-method pros/cons, uncertainty flags, and sources live on the Build Methods page.

Four honest caveats about dome living: ① leaks are the defining dome problem (seams, hubs, no drainage plane); ② sealed high-gain shells sweat without ventilation; ③ curved walls are hard to furnish (expect built-ins); ④ resale, financing, insurance, and code all take extra work.

A curated, live-verified (July 2026) directory out to the best dome projects on the internet — the full annotated version is on the Resources page.

• Bioceramic / next-gen: Geoship
• Aircrete: Domegaia · Aircrete Harry · Steve Areen's dome
• Geodesic kits: Pacific Domes · Natural Spaces Domes · Timberline Geodesics · Ekodome · Growing Spaces · Biodomes · FDomes · Intershelter
• Monolithic / concrete: Monolithic Dome Institute · Binishells
• Earthbag: CalEarth
• Fuller & theory: Buckminster Fuller Institute · Montreal Biosphère · Eden Project
• Inspiration: Hjertefølger Nature House · Domerama
• Geometry / software: Desert Domes calculator · Acidome calculator · Blender Geodesic Domes add-on · Zip Tie Domes

This is a static Astro 5 site styled with Tailwind CSS v4.

npm install          # install dependencies
npm run dev          # local dev server
npm run build        # type-check + static build to dist/
npm run preview      # preview the built dist/ under the /dome/ base
npm run posters      # regenerate video poster frames (needs ffmpeg)

Every push to main is built and published to GitHub Pages by .github/workflows/deploy.yml (withastro/action → actions/deploy-pages). Because it's a project page served from /dome/, astro.config.mjs sets base: '/dome', and hand-written links and public/ assets are routed through import.meta.env.BASE_URL.

├── .github/workflows/deploy.yml   # GitHub Pages CI
├── astro.config.mjs               # site + base:/dome + responsive images
├── public/videos/                 # 15 AI concept films (+ posters/)
├── src/
│   ├── assets/photos/             # AI concept stills (Grok Imagine) → <Picture>
│   ├── assets/renders/            # Blender 3D-study PNGs → <Image>/<Picture>
│   ├── content/                   # methods.yaml + projects.yaml (content collections)
│   ├── components/ · layouts/ · pages/
│   └── lib/                       # base-URL helper + media manifest
├── design/                        # .blend source files (downloadable)
└── docs/explorations/             # the exploration that specced this site

• Code — MIT (see LICENSE).
• All media & prose — the author's own work, CC BY-NC 4.0 (see LICENSE-CONTENT). This covers the AI concept art & films (src/assets/photos/, public/videos/) made with Grok Imagine, the Blender renders (src/assets/renders/) and .blend sources (design/), and the written prose.