The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is vaporware no more. Geoship has unveiled the first full home in Nevada City, California exclusively to Forbes.
“The base price for this 18-foot dome would be about $33,000,” Bierschenk says. “For a bigger kind 1,100 square foot dome it would be about $110,000.”
All of that is a tall order. Tiny homes are big business right now, and many are trying to build them with found and recycled materials for $15,000 or $25,000. Geoship thinks they’ve got the materials science down pat, and plans to build multiple local factories to reduce shipping costs. But all of that is expensive, takes time, and has execution risk, which Bierschenk acknowledges.“We're really focused first on building the best home over the next couple of years,” he says.
And the company doesn’t have the benefit of an Elon Musk emerald mine or PayPal fortune to pay for it.“We're really trying to introduce a new archetype of home ... with the climate crisis combined with the housing affordability crisis and kind of the crisis of disconnection, for lack of a better way to describe that,” he says.
“We've been working on this project for a long time, and it's just in the last few days we got it complete enough where I could just be able to sit in here and really experience the space,” he says. “And it's phenomenal ... it really feels like you're being held by the earth in a sense.
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