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| Cal Earth double-ecodome plan. The rain delay allowed me to visit my not too far off neighbor. This is essentially the structure I am preparing to build. My storage dome is practice and will hold all of my tools and supplies. |
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| You can see the recessed entranceway. Awesome bag and plasterwork, integrating the house into the landscape. |
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| Close up of ecodeome apses. |
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| "Rumi says that we are worth no more than whatever we most fear," Khalili recalls. "I was afraid of cracks. Then I noticed that nature is filled with cracks. Look at a snake's skin." The conclusion was an experiment. Let the dome continue to crack and see how long it lasts. It is now 7 years old and still habitable. He took it to be Sufi wisdom applied to survival housing. "It is time to bring the tangible and intangible worlds together," Khalili says. "It should not be that now I am at the mosque and now I am at work. It's all the same. God can be made tangible in the work." |
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| Khalili created a finish which he called “reptile” where the domes were covered with softball sized balls of concrete and earth. Reptile finish prevented cracking by creating paths for the structural stress caused as the building settling and by heating/cooling expansion and contraction. |
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| So much beauty with every changing moment here. Rumi believes that if you follow your heart, your love, then you can really rise to the highest. He also says that whenever love arrives you can go beyond any known limits, letting the ego go and being humble like earth, soft, so that many flowers grow from you. |
