Living in a Fish Bowl

One very visible design element of the house will be the solarium. We have included it in our plans to Monolithic even though they don't do glass domes because we want to make sure that we are prepared for how it connects. This is something that we will add after we move in. Ideally we would like for it to be an all glass geodesic dome. Unfortunately, so far the only company we have found that makes what we want is in the UK.
Solar Dome

The plan would be for it to connect right over the front door of the great room of the house. I am leaning towards a combination of the above 2 images. Solar Dome refers to these as skylights. A glass dome attached to a 4 or 5 ft. wall would give us extra height and lower the cost of materials. The new front door would become the door into the glass dome. This area would be an unheated enclosed area that would only get heated if we chose to leave the house open to it.

I spoke on the phone today with Monolithic and decided it was time to ask Solar Dome about their shipping to the US. Maybe we are totally crazy trying to import a glass dome kit from the UK! Time to find out my level of crazy. Crossing my fingers!

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