Build a Dome House

Interior 8.0m dome
  • Build a home that stands out architecturally and provides a unique living experience with innovative designs that offer both functionality and visual appeal.
  • Create a home that minimizes environmental impact, utilizes renewable resources, and promotes sustainability.
  • A home that fosters a sense of autonomy and resilience.
  • Live a lifestyle that aligns with eco-conscious values and reduces carbon footprint.
  • Be at the forefront of sustainable living and alternative construction.
  • For those who take pride in using cutting-edge techniques and designs in their homebuilding projects.
  • Are you passionate about creating and maintaining eco-friendly and self-sufficient living environments?
  • Do you embrace the do-it-yourself approach to building and maintaining your homes, preferring hands-on involvement in the construction process?
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1. Superior Strength and Durability: Feel safe in Domeshells’ basalt fiber reinforced concrete dome that offers unmatched strength and durability. They are resistant to all extreme forces making them suitable for storm shelters and earth-covered applications.

2. Infinite Design Possibilities: Choose one of our standard geometry designs for the best economy.  Domeshells system offers infinite design possibilities, allowing the creation of unique and personalized structures tailored to your specific needs and preferences.

3. Lower Energy Costs: A Domeshell contains high levels of internal thermal mass that is covered by a layer of lightweight insulating concrete over the structural shell keeping warm in winter and cool in summer. 

4. A heightened Living Experience: Unique acoustics, spaciousness, stillness.

5. Value! More protection & longevity for your dollar.

6. Design Services: We provide architectural design services (or use your own designer) in addition to structural design and certification required by your council.

Domeshells complies with the Australian Building Code and satisfies requirements in all states.

7. Training, Learning, and Courses: We provide on-site training for builders and owner-builders. We offer a range of E-Manuals, and Online Video Courses. at the DomeAcademy website

Our training material is constantly being upgraded and expanded. 

8. Materials: Only a few materials are needed to build a Domeshell that are easy to source locally. Domeshells provides basalt fiber reinforcing, air forms, hand-held sprayers, and blower fans to our dome builders.

9. Plant and Equipment: Includes rigid fiberglass molds and mini-shotcrete spraying machines.

“The Most Bushfire Resistant House Construction in Australia”

Designed from the ground up to resist extreme forces.

Survive Any Weather Event in a Domeshell

Dome House Design Services

Get in touch. Talk to us about what you have in mind. Find out about our process. We will help you achieve the best design solution for you and your budget.  

Three dome home

The New Way to Live

Ultimate comfort and protection against:

  • bush-fire
  • cyclone, hurricane
  • earthquake
  • hail
  • termites
  • corrosion
  • flood damage
  • Cabins
  • Multi dome homes
  • Shelters
  • Underground/above-ground
3.0m diameter relocatable dome

Special Qualities of Domes

The most common response from people who live in dome homes is that they do not want to go back to living in a rectangular house.

  • a natural calming feeling
  • with no corners – energy flows
  • unique pure sound no distortions.
  • sacred geometry is inherent in the circle
  •  35% less external surface area – less materials

When you combine all of the above you get a naturally comfortable space that feels strong, safe, and secure that will outperform any other form of structure.

8.0m dome interior

Education and Training

E-Manuals and Online Video Courses

Learn our simple methods:

  • The no-mould method or The mouldless method or both
  • How to use bamboo to construct a strong, resilient concrete shell
  • How to use basalt fibre rebar to build an engineered dome that complies with the Australian Building Code.

Projects Image Gallery

View a range of projects we have completed from 3.0m diameter up to 9.5m diameter.

inside view - 8.0m dome home

The 3.0m diameter Relocatable Dome Studio

extra space – studio – day room – office

Manufactured in Murwillumbah NSW. The 3.0m diameter dome can be delivered anywhere

3.0m concrete Dome

Basalt Reinforcing Products

Domeshells pioneered the use of “basalt fibre” concrete reinforcing products in Australia.

Basalt fibre is extruded from molten basalt rock mine tailings. It produces a fibre twice the tensile strength of steel and only a quarter of the weight. It does not rust or corrode.

Basalt fibre reinforcing for concrete

More About Dome Houses

Perfect Solution for Climate Change

The dome shape combined with the right materials makes an almost indestructible building. Domeshells simple construction method combined with our unique material system offers the most cost effective, sustainable buildings that will withstand the worst that climate change can throw.

If you want a future proof house, a house that will withstand category 5 cyclones, earthquakes, fire, flood, insect attack and more –  then Domeshells is the answer.

Purest Sound Inside a Dome

Sound is reflected from the dome shape back to the center of the structure at the diameter. The sound is pure in contrast to rectangular buildings.

Behavior of sound in a dome shape illustrates how all the energy flows inside a dome – no stagnant energy stuck in corners.

Ventilation in Domes

A common comment made by people who live in dome houses is that they do not have a mold problem. This is due to the superior ventilation inherent when a dome is ventilated through an opening in the apex which causes the most efficient and thorough ventilation of the space below. In contrast to a conventional building, a dome draws air from around its circumference expelling through the apex.

Compound Curves of the Dome Shape

Domeshells designs use mostly hemispherical geometry with smooth round surfaces

Compound curves mean that the surface curves in all direction. It is not just a mono curve. Creating compound curved elements requires a mold system.

Domeshells does NOT design or build geodesic domes which are created with triangular elements to form a dome shape with facets.

The Domeshells Building System is Ideally Suitable for:

  • Cabins
  • Houses
  • Yoga & Meditation Studios
  • Tourist accommodation
  • Mining accommodation
  • Storage silos
  • Survival shelters
  • Storm shelters
  • Emergency shelter
  • Disaster reconstruction
  • Extreme conditions shelter

Storm Shelters, Survival Shelters and Fire Bunkers

There is so much happening in our world today causing many people to think of preparing for the worst. Civil unrest and war causing massive migrations of people into refugee situations and climate change, seismic activity and natural disasters of all kinds are affecting millions of people all over the world.

More and more people are moving away from the cities back to rural towns and ares. Forming communities, getting back to nature and living off-grid  is becoming more popular and desirable.

Our domes are specifically designed for the survival of the worst possible scenario in mind.  They are strong and solid. They are also capable of being underground and/or earth-covered.

For more information please fill out our CONTACT FORM or give us a call on Tel: 02 6677 0216 (International: +61 2 6677 0216).