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I was hoping freebeard would start thinking about how to domeify a multi-level into the side of a cliff.
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Way ahead of you. My thoughts went there as soon as I saw the thread title.
And I helped build some like that in the 1980s. The house shown at Permalink #7 is on a slope similar to the South Hills in Eugene, OR.
But not a full basement under a daylight basement under a main level under a garage level under an observatory. Any dome I built for myself would have a guard tower/observatory.
I'm not a fan of the glazed triangles. That lets in so much sunlight the UV bleaches your couch and carpeting. Better is carefully placed view windows and an oculus.
Rather than the 2x6 or 2x8 framing, I'd do a 1 or 2 frequency timber frame with a 3 or 6 frequency shell over that. It would look the same on the outside but have a nice ambience inside.
Houses have hip or gable roofs, commercial have flat roofs, but public spaces have domes.