Dome Plans

At Natural Spaces Domes, we have been designing dome homes since 1971. All in-house designs utilize the design expertise of Dennis Odin Johnson, founder/owner of Natural Space Domes. Prior to 1971, Dennis worked as an architectural designer/project manager for Gingold-Pink Architects, in Los Angeles and Minneapolis/St. Paul, for 10 years.

Natural Spaces Domes planning services start by offering you 2 plan books. The plans in our plan books were developed for individual clients. You will be reviewing their ideas and dreams. We hope you will peruse these books gleaning new ideas from each plan. We want to attempt to raise your dome consciousness by exposing you to a wide variety of unusual plans.

Plans are a very moldable product - all you have to do to change something is erase a line and draw a new one.

Don't be looking for that perfect plan - it usually doesn't exist, at least until it is created just for you.

 

An option with our custom planning services, we offer 3-dimensional colored renderings complete with materials and landscaping. If you send us a photo of your actual dome site, we can place the 3-D drawing image of the dome on the exact building site. The way we look at it, the more detailed your plan, the fewer surprises you have during the building process.

Click Images to Enlarge

We have several clients that have utilized a local architect to provide their dome design. The designs and renderings below were done by Nathan Riggle, an architect in Tucson, Arizona. We provided the basic 3-D domeshell imaging and Nate worked with the clients to create their perfect plan. Once we explained some of our domes structural characteristics and all of its possibilities, Nate used his architectural and creative abilities to produce a very imaginative design. If you have an architect you would prefer to work with, we can email CAD files.

Images ©2007 Nathan D. Riggle
Click Images to Enlarge
 
As another option with our computer drawn custom plans, we can provide 3-D exterior views from any vantage point around the dome. We do not have to do 3-D construction drawings of your dome. We can also add color and texture. Easy for us and cheaper for you.

 

Natural Spaces Domes Plan Books

Domes Come True #1

This 94 page plan book has 38 plans of exciting, imaginative, custom dome homes. This book has 4-8 plans for each dome size from 29' diam. thru 40' diam. (29' mid-profile, 36' low-profile, 36' high-profile, 40' low-profile, 40' high-profile) Along with 2 plans each for the 45' low-profile and 46' mid-profile. Also includes 3 plans of "Groupies" (double dome plans).

We just don't show you a basic first and second floor plan like everyone else - we include all three floor plans (since most of our domes have lower levels) and we show a cut-a-way section of all three floors. Then we include a rendered picture of what that dome looks like in a real setting.

Note : This book is currently out of stock. All of the plans in this plan book will be available on our web site in the future.

Domes Come True #2

This 60 page plan book has 17 fabulous plans of our larger size domes - 45' diam. low-profile, 46' mid-profile, 47' low-profile and 49' mid-profile. (We also offer 49' diam. low-profile and 51' diam. mid-profile domes, however, these sizes are not in this plan book). Then we show you 5 "groupie" plans utilizing multiple domes - 45' low-profile wit ha 36' low-profile; 40' low-profile with two 29' mid-profile domes; 40' high-profile with a 33' low-profile and a 30' low-profile; 40' low-profile with a 29' mid-profile; 49' mid-profile wit ha 40' low-profile and a 36' low-profile.

 

To order these plan books, click here to go to The Dome Store. They are $12 each but can be purchased in a package at a reduced rate.

We also offer interior planning kits (shown below) for those that want to layout their own custom plan.

We have over 1000 dome plans in our "master" dome plan files.

Natural Spaces Domes would like to have the opportunity to create your plan with you - our experience and your dreams will make your dome come true.

 

Natural Spaces Domes Interior Planning Kits

CD-ROM computer version DXF/DWG file format or Paper Copy
Kits include the following plans and details:

  • Lower floor outline plan
  • Main floor outline plan
  • Upper floor outline plan
  • Top view of dome showing triangle grid
  • Side view of dome showing triangle grid
  • Cross section through dome
  • Extension options

Paper Interior Planning Kit: $15 Additional dome size (at time of order): $7

Blank dome floor plan drawings @ 1/4" = 1'.0" scale on 18" × 24"or 24" × 36" paper. You plan out your own custom ideas, which you send back to us for preliminary plan development or a MacDome Budget estimate. Scale furniture cutouts, scale ruler, three sheet of tracing paper, plans and details included.

Computer Disk Interior Planning Kit: $15 Additional dome size (at time of order): $7

Our interior planning kit on 3.5" disk or CD-ROM. For a CAD or "low end" design program that accepts DWG or DXF file formats. Be sure to let us know which type of disk you need.

Click Here to Order

Exterior Planning Kits

Put together a 3 dimensional paper (card stock) kit of a 36’ diam/40’ diam low or high profile geodesic dome home and an Icosa dome. Kit includes CD with printable layouts of dome & instructions for printing from your computer. The CD is from Ray Bovee of Bovee Graphics. Besides the dome shell, the cutouts include the following: 

  • Riser walls
  • Extensions
  • View Cupola
  • Triangle Skylights
  • 30 sheets of card stock (110 lb)
  • Cutting knife (for scoring edges to fold

Click here for pictures

Click here to order from The Dome Store

Standard Dome Plans
offered by Natural Spaces Domes

These plans are free with purchase of dome kit.

Please be patient as the images contained in the links below may take a while to load on a slower connection.

29' diam. Mid-Profile Domes

  • 29' diam. mid-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Diane and Jim's 4-bedroom, 3-story, 1800 sq. ft. dome)
  • 29' diam. mid-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Carol and Dennis' 3-bedroom, 3-story, 1700 sq. ft. dome)

36' diam. Low-Profile Domes

  • 36' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (4-bedroom, 2-story dome)
  • 36' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Naida's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 2100 sq. ft. dome)
  • 36' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Clair and Richard's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 1350 sq. ft. dome)
  • 36' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Patty and Steve's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 1500 sq. ft. dome)

36' diam. High-Profile Domes

  • 36' diam. high-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Helen and Grant's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 2700 sq. ft. dome)
  • 36' diam. high-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Susan and Terry's 4-bedroom, 3-story, 2500 sq. ft. dome)
  • 36' diam. high-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Patty and Barry's 4-bedroom, 3-story, 3350 sq. ft. dome)

40' diam. Low-Profile Domes

  • 40' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Gorrell's 2-bedroom, 3-story dome)
  • 40' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Connie and Ed's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 3250 sq. ft. dome)
  • 40' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Carol and Jim's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 3075 sq. ft. dome)
  • 40' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Mary and Jack's 4-bedroom, 3-story, 2700 sq. ft. dome)

40' diam. High-Profile Domes

  • 40' diam. high-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Leslie and James 2-bedroom, 3-story dome)
  • 40' diam. high-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Nancy and Dan's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 3300 sq. ft. dome)
  • 40' diam. high-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Joan and John's 5-bedroom, 3-story, 3200 sq. ft. dome)
  • 40' diam. high-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (Barb and Nick's 5-bedroom, 2-story, 3450 sq. ft. dome)

Larger diam. Domes and Groupies

  • 46' diam. mid-profile - Part A - Part B of our standard plan (Betty and Jim's 6-bedroom, 3-story, 4400 sq. ft. dome)
  • 56' diam. mid-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (4-bedroom, 3-story dome)
  • 72' diam. low-profile - Click here to view our standard plan (8-bedroom, 3-story dome)
  • 40' diam. low-profile and 29' diam mid-profile - Click here to view (Donna and John's 4-bedroom, 3-story, 2850 sq. ft. double dome)
  • 40' diam. low-profile and 29' diam mid-profile Pool Dome - Click here to view (Carolyn and Larry's 3-bedroom, 2-story, 5370 sq. ft. dome)
  • 49' diam. mid-profile and 36' diam low-profile Studio/Pool Dome - Click here to view (Diane and Jack's 4-bedroom, 3-story, 6500 sq. ft. dome)

 

Dome Plan Sizes
offered by Natural Spaces Domes

Please be patient as the images contained in the links below may take a while to load on a slower connection.

2 Frequency

Model 475
Mid-profile
26' diam. Flat Top Riser
Model 475
Mid-profile
26' diam. Sawtooth Riser
Model 625
Mid-profile
29' diam. Flat Top Riser
Model 625
Mid-profile
29' diam. Sawtooth Riser

 

3 Frequency

Model 650
Low-profile
30' diam.
Model 650
High-profile
30' diam.
Model 800
Low-profile
33' diam.
Model 800
High-profile
33' diam.
Model 950
Low-profile
36' diam.
Model 950
High-profile
36' diam.
Model 1100
High-profile
38' diam.
Model 1250
Low-profile
40' diam.
Model 1250
High-profile
40' diam.

4 Frequency

Model 1500
Low-profile
45' diam.
Model 1600
Mid-profile
46' diam.
Model 1700
Low-profile
47' diam.
Model 1800
Mid-profile
49' diam.
Model 1900
Low-profile
49' diam.
Model 2000
Mid-profile
51' diam.

 

5 Frequency

Model 2300
Low-profile
54' diam.
Model 2500
Mid-profile
56' diam.
Model 2800
Mid-profile
60' diam.

 

6 Frequency

Model 4000
Low-profile
72' diam.
Model 4300
Mid-profile
74' diam.

 

 

 

Contact Us

 

Natural Spaces Domes
37955 Bridge Road
North Branch, MN 55056, USA

Just 45 minutes north of the
Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.

View A Google Map

MPLS/St. Paul Area: 651-674-4292

Toll-Free: 1-800-733-7107

Fax: 651-674-5005

Email: nsd@naturalspacesdomes.com

Office Hours: 8:30 - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday
Weekends: Appointment Only