Introducing the Io-16.5
by Freda Parker
October 28, 2008
What is an Io-16.5?
It's a Monolithic Dome with an oblate ellipse shape that has a diameter of just 16.5 feet, a height of 9 feet and a living area of 210 square feet.
But David South, President of Monolithic, sees it as "one of the most versatile, small domes we have ever designed."
"And they have the added advantage of requiring only a small amount of land."
Use it for this or for that!
"While it's not exactly all-purpose, the Io-16.5 does have many uses," David says.
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Rental Unit - The inside of an Io-16.5 is about the size of a large motel room and can include a bathroom with toilet, shower and pocket door; a kitchen with sink, cabinet, hot plate, microwave, refrigerator/freezer; one or two single beds or a fold-out couch; closet. It's designed primarily for one person, but can accommodate two. That makes it an ideal rental unit to intersperse with rental domes designed for two adults or two adults and a child such as the Io-20 or Io-24..
- Vacation Dome, Hunting or Fishing Lodge - An Io-16.5 can be built in virtually any location in any terrain. "You can easily turn it into your personal, permanent mini-castle that has all the benefits and advantages of a Monolithic Dome," David says. "Once it's completed and on-site, you can attach awnings and create a shaded, outdoor, eating, relaxing area."
- Disaster Shelter - Like a Monolithic Dome, the Io-16.5 can provide near-absolute protection from natural disasters, such as heavy storms and tornadoes.
- Workshop - Furnish it with your workbenches, tool cabinets and equipment. It will furnish you with a workshop that confines the noise and mess but provides you with an easily maintained, secure, pleasant, little dome of your own with power, heat or air, and a bathroom.
- Office or Studio - With an Io-16.5, a writer, artist or businessperson can have what novelist Virginia Wolff insisted was a necessity: a room of one's own.
- Exercise Room - Get sweaty in your own private Io-16.5 where you can also shower and relax.
- Store - An Io-16.5 can be placed into a commercially zoned area and designed as a space-efficient, virtually burglar-proof store.
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All the advantages of a Monolithic Dome!
Like its larger siblings, an Io-16.5 has the strength and durability of steel-reinforced concrete, insulated with polyurethane foam and blanketed with an Airform. It's energy-efficient, easily maintained, disaster- and burglar-resistant, fire- and termite-proof.
Click here to read more about Io-16.5s on DomeLiving.com!
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- Monolithic's Oberon Four-plex
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