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Originally Posted by freebeard
All good suggestions. I've lived in a dome with a ceramic tile floor. You don't want to drop anything or trip and hit your head. And the radiant floor heat can get so hot in winter you can't walk barefoot.
The important window is an oculus at the summit. With smaller view windows at the floor level[s].
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Idealy I'd want a lot of thermal wall and ceiling mass that's also heated/cooled. That way you could heat or cool it during the part of the day or night that best heats or cools, and then just leave it the rest of the time since a large thermal mass. You also wouldn't have to cook your tooties since if the walls and ceilings are all warm there's no need to heat the floor much more than room temperature. With the exception of Pheonix, air conditioning could become unnecesary and solar heating would be enough for most of the winter in places that have sunshine.