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Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Home Crowdfunding

One Community is creating a crowdfunding campaign for an open sourced Demonstration Prototype. It will produce a 3-dome guest house structure to compare the building methods of earthbag and aircrete construction and help us fine tune both construction techniques while demonstrating and refining our open source documentation process. The Prototype is also intended to be constructed and permitted on land in the same county as the One Community property to further develop our county relationships while gathering specific data related to these structures and the diverse weather in the area. 

Comparing Earthbag vs Aircrete techniques in a real world test like this will help us gather a wide range of objective and comparable data including:

  • Earthbag to Aircrete cost comparison
  • Earthbag to Aircrete labor needs comparison
  • Earthbag to Aircrete construction difficulty and differences comparison
  • Earthbag to Aircrete livability and efficiency comparison (heating, cooling, moisture, sound, etc.)
  • Earthbag to Aircrete durability and maintenance comparison
  • Murphy bed/Interior components installation and construction, and more

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EARTHBAG AND AIRCRETE DOME HOME BUILDING

Three-Dome Cross Section by One Community – Created by Gilberto Martini de Oliveira

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The 3-Domes JPG (pre-artistic design elements)  – click to enlarge

This crowdfunding campaign will produce DIY video and website instructions for duplication of all earthbag construction, aircrete construction, and custom furniture construction plans needed for an aircrete and an earthbag construction couples living dome. These domes will feature a fold-down Murphy bed with built-in desk, his and hers changing area, and a loft storage area:

Murphy Bed dome home floor plan 640

200 Square Foot Earthbag Construction Living Dome with Fold-up Murphy Bed & Fold-down Desk – Click to Enlarge

We will also open source a 150 square foot dome (the one in the center of the picture of all three). The reason for open sourcing a 150 sq. ft. dome is to demonstrate even more space efficiency and provide permitted plans and detailed instructions for smaller domes that even more counties would allow to be built without permits. Here is the plan for our 150 sq. ft. dome:

Wed dome floor plan, 150 square foot dome

150 Square Foot “Wet Dome” Bathroom and Kitchen Layout

INCLUDED WITH THE ABOVE DOMES

 

DO-IT-YOURSELF EARTHBAG AND AIRCRETE HOME PLANS

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  • Permitted home plans
  • Materials lists and cost analysis
  • Tools and equipment lists and cost analysis
  • Individual labor calculations for each structure and each furniture design
  • Timelapse videos of the building of each structure and each piece of furniture
  • Tutorials on how to work with counties and local governments

The structures are also designed with 150 and 200 square-foot footprints to help those people living in counties that will allow structures of this size to be built without permits.

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3-Dome Cluster in CAD – click for enlarged view

 

DO-IT-YOURSELF TUTORIAL PAGES
PLANNED FOR THIS CAMPAIGN

Before we run the campaign, the following list will be completed to cover and open source share every aspect of the build. The crowdfunding campaign will then fund materials and the addition of each of the videos outlined in pages below. This will create the most complete and easy to follow earthbag construction tutorials in the world:

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WHY CROWDFUND DO-IT-YOURSELF
DOME HOMES?

The One Community non-profit organization is purposed to create positive and permanent global transformation through demonstrating and open source sharing Highest Good of All approaches to all aspects of living. This crowdfunding campaign will forward that goal by providing people an eco-friendly, durable, beautiful, and DIY option for sustainable housing while also providing One Community the opportunity to do a side-by-side comparison of both the earthbag and aircrete construction methods in preparation for the construction of the complete earthbag (or maybe it will be aircrete) village (Pod 1).

All the domes we will be building will be permitted but small enough to be built without permits in many counties and large enough to support alternative internal designs too. Here are two alternative design examples, the top one is a 150 sq foot studio/office and the bottom is a 200 sq foot complete kitchen and bathroom:

150 Square Foot Earthbag Construction Studio/Office/Guest Dome - Click to Enlarge

150 Square Foot Studio/Office/Guest Dome Layout Option – Click to Enlarge

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200 Square Foot Bathroom/Kitchen/Laundry Dome Layout Option – Click to Enlarge

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WHERE WE’LL BE BUILDING

The site will be disclosed when we launch the crowdfunding campaign.

 

OUR CROWDFUNDING ACTION STEPS IN PROCESS

Here is an overview of the action steps we are checking off to be ready to launch this crowdfunding campaign. They are in a specific order but not action items (in most cases) needing to be completed in a specific order:

  1. Create earthbag and aircrete dome home designs (click here)
  2. Design wet-dome bathroom/kitchenette (see above)
  3. Create detailed open source plan for: 2 Earthdomes | Aircrete Dome | DIY Aircrete Mixer
  4. Design all campaign-specific web infrastructure: Earthdome | Aircrete Dome | DIY Aircrete Mixer
  5. Create materials lists : Earthdome | Aircrete Dome | DIY Aircrete Mixer
  6. Create complete tool plan: Earthdome | Aircrete Dome | DIY Aircrete Mixer
  7. Create complete labor plan: Earthdome | Aircrete Dome | DIY Aircrete Mixer
  8. Create complete furniture designs (2) | materials lists | tools lists | building instructions
  9. Build an aircrete mixer and begin aircrete testing
  10. Complete testing and engineering for both aircrete and earthbag
  11. Finalize building site
  12. Apply for all permits
  13. Create campaign video and promotional strategy
  14. Update build schedule
  15. Identify local rental/camping options
  16. Finalize build team

Launch Campaign…

 

LODGING OPTIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN

Lodging OptionsThere will be several options available for those wishing to have hands-on participation in this crowdfunding campaign. For those staying on the property there will be available power, internet, running water, solar showers, and temporary bathrooms that will serve until the earthbag bathroom dome is complete. We will also be providing food. Here are the lodging options:

CAMPING

Onsite camping will be available and free. We will provide some camping tents on a first-come first-served basis and everyone else will need to bring their own tent. Bedding, pillows, etc. will be the responsibility of the individual.

STAYING WITH THE LOCALS

This may be an option for anyone who’d like something other than tents, but with much less expense than a hotel. We’ll explore and share the details of this option when we launch the campaign.

LOCAL HOTEL OPTIONS

There are multiple local hotel options and we’ll share those details when we launch the campaign.

 

CONTRIBUTING TO THIS CAMPAIGN

Want to make a tax deductible early donation to this build campaign? If so, just use the button below and put “earth dome campaign” as a note along with your donation and we’ll make sure that donation is specifically added to funds we raise for this campaign. Please note that a tax deductible campaign contribution like this cannot by law include any “perks” or donation rewards.

PAYPAL DONATION

For those interested in major investments and/or donations to the bigger and more longterm goals of One Community, we have created these three pages:

INVESTOR OVERVIEW       ●       FUNDING OPTIONS       ●       LOCATION DETAILS

 

RELEVANT RESOURCES FOR AIRCRETE

DomeGaia Resources/Website

The best aircrete foaming agent:


A unique idea for creating circular structures without using individual blocks:


Here’s a guy who built a geodesic dome using aircrete triangles:


Here’s a way to do domes without blocks:

 

FREQUENTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS

Q: Why are the domes separated, why no central enclosing structure?

We designed the layout the way it is because we desired the domes to be easily duplicated as stand-alone structures. We also saw this layout as an easy one to modify with a central building that would then provide “common space” with access to the 3 side rooms, so we’re hoping someone else will create that once we’re done so we can open source share those plans also. This isn’t the focus of this build for us though.

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