This $1.3 Million Dome Home Seamlessly Blends Into the Desert

Tatooine in Star Wars is probably not actual, however this dome residence in Joshua Tree, California, actually brings the spirit of the fictional planet to earth. Known as Bonita Domes, the distinctive property not too long ago hit the marketplace for $1.3 million.

The house’s proprietor and builder, Lisa Starr, a holistic healer referred to as the drum medication lady, started engaged on the compound in 2014. “She acquired coaching from CalEarth to construct within the fashion of superadobe, a type of earthbag structure developed by architect and CalEarth founder Nader Khalili,” Jeffrey Weiss, the house’s present proprietor, says. “She bought me the property throughout COVID in 2020.” Although Starr constructed a number of dome constructions on the property, the principle residence spans two massive social domes that every embody two sleeping pods and a full rest room. A kitchen and breakfast nook join the 2 sides. Additionally on the two-acre lot is a pool, spa, meditation temple, outside kitchen, gazebo with a barbecue, and firepit.

Showing a bit like comfortable mounds of earth, the distinctive structure fashion includes stacking lengthy adobe-filled cloth tubes on prime of one another with barbed wire in between, which acts like mortar and holds the construction collectively. Due to its give attention to native supplies and little waste, superadobe structure is well known as a sustainable and pure constructing method. In accordance with CalEarth, the tactic meets fashionable security necessities and passes extreme earthquake code exams in California. “The constructing course of is deliberately easy, however the structural integrity of superadobe is the results of years of analysis,” the group’s web site reads.