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Luxury Monolithic Dome Home For Sale
Updated June 26, 2008
A recently renovated, unique dome home in Centennial, Colorado is available for purchase.
Here's information we received from its owner:
This rare and exceptional Monolithic Dome home was designed for entertaining and energy-efficiency by Chris Barnes, a former aeronautical engineer who worked with Howard Hughes.
Built in 1982, the dome is 23 feet high at its center and 60 feet wide, with four bedrooms and more than 4,500 finished square feet of living space.
Inside, a temperature difference of only three to four degrees exists between the first and second floors, since there is no air stagnation. The house was positioned so that all of the winter sun comes in and enters the pool surface for winter warmth, while no sun enters in the summer, and humidity control settings provide maximum comfort.
The rock column, with waterfalls, in the center of the home also serves as a natural heating and cooling structure, reducing temperature variation, even in the winter, to no greater than five to six degrees on average, over a 24-hour period.
Numerous additives were applied to the concrete and stucco exterior, most importantly, steel fibers for reinforcement. This idea was founded by engineers, who had gone to Europe looking for ideas on concrete reinforcement and found them used on river locks in Belgium.
Every window has exterior rolling shutters for additional temperature and light control. Window shutters around the pool are motorized and electrically operated.
For more information, please contact Jim Nussbaum: office (303) 773-3399; mobile (303) 885-0073; home (303) 794-2050.
Additional information available: Dome for sale in Centennial, Colorado
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