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Fifty-five by sixty-five
« Thread Started on Jun 5, 2004, 2:57pm »

A housing committee, whose function would be to acquire land and build houses (D&C 94: 15) for the members of the United Effort, would need to come to some consensus about what the size and type of the house should be.

My own opinion is that Monolithic Domes can and should be used, because of their catastrophe-proofness, their energy efficiency, and their easiness in construction. The United Effort can purchase land, the size of the plots of land can be of a set size, per family. Let's say that each plot would be 2 acres in area. Then, the material necessary for constructing a Monolithic Dome home on the plot would be purchased and assembled. A building committee would be organized and they would work together for a couple of days and build the home.

The size of each home can be based upon the dimensions for houses mentioned in the Doctrine and Covenants by the Lord, namely: fifty-five by sixty-five, or a total of 3,575 square feet. These dimensions are mentioned for the Presidency House (D&C 94: 4) and for the Printing House (D&C 94: 11) and for the House of the Lord (D&C 95: 15.)

Such houses would be able to accommodate the largest families. After building the house, they can be rented to a family of the order in a rent-to-own agreement, at low cost. No profit would be generated, only the actual material cost of the land and building materials would need to be paid back into the United Effort.

To help with such initial costs, families who own homes, who wish to sell their homes, can do so, at whatever profit they can obtain, and then use those profits to complete a newly built Monolithic Dome home's interior decoration, as they see fit. They would then move into the new home under the low cost rent-to-own agreement, saving money but also contributing to the funds of the United Effort.

As home-owners, in a fairly large home, they may choose to rent out portions of the house to single or other members of the United Effort to increase their income, thus reducing costs for all and increasing the amount of available funds in the general fund of the United Effort.

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No need for an airform
« Reply #1 on Oct 2, 2005, 1:16am »

A dome with a radius of 33.75 feet will give the square footage of about 3575 square feet.

There is no need to purchase a Monolithic Dome airfom to make a concrete dome. After pouring a rebar re-inforced concrete floor, dirt can be piled up in the form of a dome and tamped down. Then a lattice work of rebar can be laid around the earth dome form. Finally, concrete can be applied to create the thin-shelled concrete dome. After hardening, the dirt can be removed from the inside of the dome and additional concrete can be applied to the inside surface. After the dome is complete, it can be easily insulated using bags of crushed volcanic rock. These bags can be placed on the outside surface of the concrete dome and then a plaster can be applied to make the surface smooth. A water-proofing concrete sealant can be applied either on the inside surface or the outside surface of the concrete shell. If applied on the outside, it can be applied prior to appying the bags of rocks.

Such a structure would be hurricane-, tornado-, earthquake-, fire-, and firearm-proof. The only way to improve such a structure would be to make it a sphere or an egg shape with half or more than half of the shape below ground, so as to tap into the sub-surface ground temperature conditions. This can be easily done by digging a hole in the desired half sphere or partial egg shape and using the sides of the hole, the dirt or earth itself, to be the mold or form in which to place the lattice work of rebar, the thin shell of concrete, the concrete sealant and the bags of crushed, volcanic rock. The earthen sides of the hole itself would surround the bags of rock, so no plaster would be needed below ground. Such a below ground structure would also serve as a bomb shelter.

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Nevada and Arizona land
« Reply #2 on Oct 2, 2005, 1:20am »

Only these states have an allodial title program, meaning that you can get land in these states as a sovereign. This is do-as-you-want-to-do land. The state can't tax it or tell you what you can or can not do with it. The Web site for the Nevada allodial title program is the following. I'll post info on Arizona as I get it:

http://nevadatreasurer.gov/SpecialPrograms/allodial/info.html

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BioHOMES and limitations
« Reply #3 on Jul 7, 2006, 7:21pm »

I've changed my mind about the Monolithic Domes. I believe now that the most sustainable method of building is the BioHOME. I recommend a BioHOME spending cap of $24,750 for the steel geodesic framework and a BioHOME square foot cap of 3580 sf. A home owner/builder can build their home in any configuration they want, provided that the cost and square footage of the geodesic framework keeps within these limits.

The current costs of 1" steel geodesic tubing is as follows:

16' - 201 sf - $920 = $4.57/sf (cost per sf)
20' - 314 sf - $2250 = $7.16/sf (cost per sf)
24' - 452 sf - $2560 = $5.66/sf (cost per sf)
30' - 706 sf - $3330 = $4.71/sf (cost per sf)
36' - 1017 sf - $5420 = $5.32/sf (cost per sf)
44' - 1520 sf - $7845 = $5.16/sf (cost per sf)
60' - 2827 sf - $10,950 = $3.87/sf (cost per sf)

The following lists some square footage for these domes:

1 x 60' = 2827 sf
2 x 44' = 3040 sf
3 x 36' = 3051 sf
5 x 30' = 3530 sf
7 x 24' = 3164 sf
11 x 20' = 3454 sf
17 x 16' = 3417 sf

The following is a list of various configurations, the area and cost:

(1) 60' + (1) 30' = 3533 sf ($19,280)
(1) 60' + (1) 20' + (2) 16' = 3543 sf ($15,040)
(2) 44' + (1) 20' + (1) 16' = 3555 sf ($18,860)
(1) 44' + (1) 30' + (1) 20' + (5) 16' = 3545 sf ($18,025)
(1) 44' + (4) 24' + (1) 16' = 3529 sf ($19,005)
(1) 44' + (1) 24'' (5) 16' = 3580 sf ($17,765)
(1) 44' + (6) 20' = 3404 sf ($21,345)
(1) 44' + (10) 16' = 3530 sf ($17,045)
(1) 36' + (3) 24' + (7) 16' = 3580 sf ($19,543)

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