As for cooling, that's accomplished with ceiling fans and a turbine vent at the dome's apex which sucks out the rising, warm air. The house stays about seventy degrees even during the hottest parts of summer. Clark secured the turbine vent onto a square, fourteen-inch window buck that is hinged to the roof, so that it opens like a trap door. This provides an outlet onto the roof. The house took about eighteen months to build with Gary Clark providing about sixty percent of the construction labor and Gary's wife, Laura, doing the research and shopping.
Many contractors are afraid to bid because the house is a dome.
That's when referrals we got from MDI really helped. When my wife first told me that, I was sure she had misunderstood and that price was just a down payment. It was the total price. The Clarks ran into a similar situation for hooking up the boiler. Printed in the 1998 Summer Roundup The two-dome home of the Gary E. Clark family of Ann Arbor, Michigan.