Dear Lloyd, I live in Davis CA, but work for a meditation center in Woodacre (in-person on Mondays), and I am seeking your advice and counsel on a project that would be a non-profit 501c3 evolution in communal living, and an experiment in testing the scalability and sustainability of consciously designed community. Upon researching the history of the domes here at UC Davis, I just read the entirety of "Refried Domes," and share all of your values and conclusions. Of course I'm impressed with Lloyd House's beautiful creation here (the carpet roof caught my eye), but how to make something like this cost-effective and also make use of indigenous shelter designs? I'm not on social media. Please reach out to me at kimballa100@gmail.com. (Amanda)
As a hippie kid (B. 1975) your build Builders of The Pacific Northwest was like a talisman form a tribe lost long ago, a childhood never found again, a future that could be, off in a distant dream. Thanks for the memories of Lloyd House. My elementary school daughter, all on her own, has found a youtube channel on tiny homes and homes on wheels. I grew up in the back of a 1946 panel truck.... genetics, fate, osmosis; who knows, but she enthusiastically told me that she's going to live in the back of a tiny home on wheels with a golden retriever and live by the ocean, rivers, and mountains....makes me wish I never had a home on a city lot and a mortgage.
Difficult to tell from the photo...what is the roof surface, sod? Looks like thatch but not enough pitch to make it shed and last.
Hard to believe...still have my Shelter from the '70s, built a lot of houses and boat interiors, but never one for myself. But Lloyd's would be a good template.
And it’s good to remember that what you don’t capture in photos you can still capture in words.
Dear Lloyd, I live in Davis CA, but work for a meditation center in Woodacre (in-person on Mondays), and I am seeking your advice and counsel on a project that would be a non-profit 501c3 evolution in communal living, and an experiment in testing the scalability and sustainability of consciously designed community. Upon researching the history of the domes here at UC Davis, I just read the entirety of "Refried Domes," and share all of your values and conclusions. Of course I'm impressed with Lloyd House's beautiful creation here (the carpet roof caught my eye), but how to make something like this cost-effective and also make use of indigenous shelter designs? I'm not on social media. Please reach out to me at kimballa100@gmail.com. (Amanda)
As a hippie kid (B. 1975) your build Builders of The Pacific Northwest was like a talisman form a tribe lost long ago, a childhood never found again, a future that could be, off in a distant dream. Thanks for the memories of Lloyd House. My elementary school daughter, all on her own, has found a youtube channel on tiny homes and homes on wheels. I grew up in the back of a 1946 panel truck.... genetics, fate, osmosis; who knows, but she enthusiastically told me that she's going to live in the back of a tiny home on wheels with a golden retriever and live by the ocean, rivers, and mountains....makes me wish I never had a home on a city lot and a mortgage.
Why do you think he put carpet over the tourchdown roof?!
Maybe to protect Torchdown from sun.
What a beautiful and interesting design he built!
Lloyd's buildings always stood out in your books as sublimely balanced and peaceful. I'm sure they were even more so in person. Like Lloyd himself.
Wonderful, and the glass joints are so perfect.
Difficult to tell from the photo...what is the roof surface, sod? Looks like thatch but not enough pitch to make it shed and last.
Hard to believe...still have my Shelter from the '70s, built a lot of houses and boat interiors, but never one for myself. But Lloyd's would be a good template.
You're always giving me something to aspire to...
He used pond liner or poly and put carpet over top of it...
Thanks...