[HN Gopher] Bolwoningen: Living in spherical homes
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       Bolwoningen: Living in spherical homes
        
       Author : hochmartinez
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2023-06-24 08:18 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | TacticalCoder wrote:
       | They do look quite similar to the "Futuro" or "Futuro pod" from
       | the late 60s:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futuro
        
         | ortusdux wrote:
         | They also remind me of inflatable concrete buildings. Most use
         | an inflatable dome as a mold, and then are spray coated with
         | concrete and reinforced.
         | 
         | https://baptistedarboistexier.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/bubbl...
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         | https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/craft/skill-infl...
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         | My favorite utilitarian version is Concrete Canvas, which makes
         | pre-impregnated concrete fabric shelters. You open the pallet,
         | inflate, spray with water, and then give them 24 hours to cure.
         | The finished structure is sterile, fire resistant, can be
         | buried, and has good insulating properties.
         | 
         | https://www.concretecanvas.com/us/cc-shelters/
        
         | dheera wrote:
         | There's one on Airbnb near Joshua Tree NP, though I had a bad
         | experience on Airbnb that customer service wasn't willing to
         | attend to, and stopped using them.
         | 
         | https://zh-t.airbnb.com/rooms/33518282
        
       | ortusdux wrote:
       | I wonder how the acoustics are?
        
         | mayormcmatt wrote:
         | Though not directly analogous, geodesic dome cabins are not
         | unusual in the Sierras (I see them in some of the communities
         | along highway 4) and they are notorious for allowing sounds to
         | bounce all over the place, making privacy difficult. For
         | listening to music/watching movies, maybe it would be awesome?
        
       | Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote:
       | I live under an angled roof which is slightly annoying but I
       | cannot imagine what it must be like not having straight walls
        
       | ArnoVW wrote:
       | If you like that, you'll love the cube houses (mentionned in the
       | article, built also in the Netherlands, around the same time)
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_house
        
         | hsjqllzlfkf wrote:
         | This is exactly what popped into my mind. I've been inside one
         | of those, I wouldn't like to live there.
        
       | sgt wrote:
       | I like the fact that they are extremely cheap to manufacture and
       | also to maintain.
       | 
       | With housing shortage in many parts of the world, could this be a
       | solution for the poor?
       | 
       | You could even stack them on top of each other like marbles
       | (assuming an edging so they don't roll off), and be able to use a
       | very small space for hundreds if not thousands of dwellings.
       | 
       | Electricity and network could be done by using a meshing
       | technology.
        
         | c22 wrote:
         | How would you get to the doors?
        
         | RhodesianHunter wrote:
         | Something being individually cheap does not mean that it'd be
         | cheaper to make and stack a bunch of them then say, a regular
         | old apartment complex.
         | 
         | Also, "cheap housing for poor people" has a bad habit of
         | becoming "projects".
        
       | picometer wrote:
       | A sphere's minimized surface area per volume also means that
       | temperature control is more efficient: there's less surface area
       | for heat to escape in the winter, or enter in the summer. So for
       | the same (or similar) wall material cost & ongoing energy cost,
       | you get more interior space.
       | 
       | Then the question is: can you actually _use_ the extra interior
       | space?
        
       | gpvos wrote:
       | The most amazing type of house, and one I'd like to live in, is
       | the Heliodome, which apparently is heated by the sun even in
       | winter while staying cool enough in summer:
       | https://www.heliodome.com/ .
        
       | Jiro wrote:
       | Furniture is rectangular with corners. Boxes are rectangular
       | shaped. Windows that are rectangular can slide in ways that
       | circular windows cannot. Look at the picture in the article
       | showing a couch and chair at angles to one another.
       | 
       | This is a stupid idea.
        
         | tempaway15755 wrote:
         | But its good to try something different, at least once,
         | somewhere in the world? People live in yurts, and they are
         | circular. Perhaps it was good to explore the idea that living
         | spaces didn't need to be rectangles. Perhaps it feels
         | different? Perhaps living in a space that doesn't easily fit
         | rectangular furniture would lead to some new insights?
        
         | mc32 wrote:
         | Yep. It would make sense only if these were to be anchored
         | below sea level or somewhere beyond the stratosphere, else it's
         | not space efficient.
        
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