Requirements

  • House a complete village of around 200-300 people, including village facilities.
  • around 100 apartments
  • efficient to regulate temperature: thermal-mass, concrete construction.
  • very long lasting. made from concrete that should be able to last virtually forever.
    • no steel rebar.

Details

  • Each village is a single large building.
  • Large, circular, primary material is salt-water concrete with basalt rebar where needed.
  • Circular design: Torus
  • Sloping outer surface, 3 or more levels of terraced, outward facing apartments, each with a patio.
  • Building is vapor sealed and climate controlled
    • automatic sliding doors at entrances, and patio doors to minimize moisture loss.
  • solar paneling on the outwardly sloped exterior walls
  • structure is sunken 1 floor into the ground to connect the building’s thermal mass to the ground.
  • floor -2
    • Subway station, plumbing, waste treatment, water storage
  • floor -1
    • electrical, power storage, transformers, climate control, servers, utility spaces
  • floor -0
    • central circular courtyard
      • garden, ponds, public forum, outdoor seating
      • courtyard walls would expose rooms for services: canteen, with kitchen behind it, shops, school, medical clinic, lounge, shipping/postal center etc…
    • walls around the courtyard would have a slight inward-slope, minimizing the size of the dome.
    • behind that first row of service rooms connected to the courtyard, would be another ring of windowless rooms for utility and storage.
    • final ring would face outdoors and include
      • meeting rooms, space for other services.
      • pools & baths & recreational facilities
      • possibly vehicle bays for parking, repair and maintenance.
  • floor 1 -> n
    • residential apartments. inner ring facing into the courtyard and the outer ring facing outdoors.
  • Roof
    • solar paneling around the flat circular roof + a walking path.
    • courtyard possibly domed over by a tinted-glass geodesic dome, depending on the need.
  • Courtyard Accessed from outdoors by at 3 or 4 gates/tunnels
  • build partially sunken, ground-connected thermal mass structures, to minimize cooling costs
    • also insulates for noise, so neighbors don’t bother you.

the top of the roof above the courtyard could copy the pantheon, only with a much larger opening

an actual village would be far larger, but here’s a dome in real life on a smaller scale: