Geodesic.Life dome home concept design 2020
Authors of architecture concept: Anna Hots, Lili Yakymyshyn
Actual status: pre-project proposal of Geodesic.Life Generation 2
Actual status: pre-project proposal of Geodesic.Life Generation 2
This project creates a higher level of healthy housing, as well as contributes to the preservation of the environment and natural resources. The main vector of Geodesic.Life is a balance of comfort, ecology and environment. Built on prefab technology, it puts less strain on the city's infrastructure and reduces noise during construction, as most of the production process takes place at the factory. The sphere also obscures less sunlight, which contributes to better insolation of neighboring houses, which is important for the middle climate zone.
The sphere is the most common form in the universe and one of the main in living nature. The dome is best suited for urban neighborhoods with low-rise buildings, as well as cottage villages near large cities and in small towns. The main idea of the project is a combination of comfortable housing and the benefits of proximity to nature. We create not just a house, but an ideal environment for a healthy and comfortable life of its inhabitants.
The dome has 33% less envelope area compared to a rectangular building. It has an optimal and efficient distribution of sunlight, air and heat inside. Freeform solar panels can produce more energy than a house consumes. The load-bearing wooden structure uses Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) technology that is also the interior layer of the house. The facade, windows and floor are made of thermowood, the roof - of recycled tires. The insulation is made of hemp and lime - Hempcrete, which has negative CO2 emissions. All the above make dome homes by Geodesic.Life a great example of sustainable architecture.
Adequate lighting and especially well-designed daylight penetration provide an array of health benefits to people in buildings. High levels of daylight and an optimised view out positively influence people’s mood and well-being.
Here you can see plan with daylight factor (DF) is a daylight availability metric that expresses as a percentage the amount of daylight available inside a room (on a work plane) compared to the amount of unobstructed daylight available outside under overcast.
The higher the DF, the more daylight is available in the room. Rooms with an average DF of 2% or more can be considered daylit, but electric lighting may still be needed to perform visual tasks. A room will appear strongly daylit when the average DF is 5% or more, in which case electric lighting will most likely not be used during daytime
Our concept is pre-project proposal of geodesic dome which is releasing now near Kyiv, Ukraine by Geodesic.Life team. More details about realisation of this project you can see here on the page of behance Geodesic.Life "Generation 2".
