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 3 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.
NEW! Our 35 plan "Domes Come True #3" along with our 94 page "Domes Come True #1" are now available online for instant viewing and download - FREE! See Below.
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.
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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Natural Spaces Domes Plan Books
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.
Available online for instant viewing and download - click here - FREE!
(Note we no longer have any stock of our printed version)
Domes Come True #2 - Now only $5

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 this plan book, click here to go to The Dome Store. It is currently on sale for $5.
This plan book is made up of plans created in the 1970's by Dennis Odin Johnson as the president of The Big Outdoors People, a dome company he started in 1972.
The sizes of the domes in this plan book are still manufactured by Natural Spaces Domes. The references to metric sizes reflect the U.S. plan to "go metric".
All of the exterior walls are shown utilizing a 2x8 dome shell with urethane foam insulation. If you decide to use fiberglass, cellulose or Icynene with lower R-values per inch, the dome shell can be fabricated using our Super-Wal system, enlarging the dome shell to the outside and maintaining all of the inside space.
NEW! Available online for instant viewing and download - click here - FREE!
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.
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Paper Model Dome Kit
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
- 15 sheets of card stock (110 lb)
- Cutting knife (for scoring edges to fold
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Standard Dome Sizes
offered by Natural Spaces Domes
We can also produce custom sizes in any frequency. The plans and photos are
examples and
are not meant to impose limitations. Please be patient as the images
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2 Frequency
Model 475 |
Mid-profile |
26' diam. Flat Top Riser |
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Model 475 |
Mid-profile |
26' diam. Sawtooth Riser |
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Model 625 |
Mid-profile |
29' diam. Flat Top Riser |
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Model 625 |
Mid-profile |
29' diam. Sawtooth Riser |
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3 Frequency
Model 650 |
Low-profile |
30' diam. |
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Model 650 |
High-profile |
30' diam. |
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Model 800 |
Low-profile |
33' diam. |
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Model 800 |
High-profile |
33' diam. |
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Model 950 |
Low-profile |
36' diam. |
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Model 950 |
High-profile |
36' diam. |
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Model 1100 |
High-profile |
38' diam. |
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Model 1250 |
Low-profile |
40' diam. |
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Model 1250 |
High-profile |
40' diam. |
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4 Frequency
Model 1500 |
Low-profile |
45' diam. |
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Model 1600 |
Mid-profile |
46' diam. |
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Model 1700 |
Low-profile |
47' diam. |
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Model 1800 |
Mid-profile |
49' diam. |
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Model 1900 |
Low-profile |
49' diam. |
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Model 2000 |
Mid-profile |
51' diam. |
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5 Frequency
Model 2500 |
Mid-profile |
56' diam. |
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Model 2800 |
Mid-profile |
60' diam. |
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6 Frequency
Model 4300 |
Mid-profile |
74' diam. |
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