🏡 Bio-Veda Day 4: Designing the “Wautillarium” Off-Grid Home in 2D → 3D
🛠️ Geodesic Domes • Sandbag Walls • Zero-Waste Materials • Rhino 3D Mastery
On Day 4 of the Bio-Veda 2D → 3D BioTecture Draft & Build Class, Alosha Lynov walked students through the full digital design of the Wautillarium—a self-heating, off-grid home built from geodesic domes, superadobe sandbags, and hyper-efficient materials.
🌀 Geodesic Dome Planning
Using Rhino, students learned how to take a perfectly scaled 2D sketch → into an accurate 3D model.
🔺 Interconnected triangles = maximum strength
🌱 Dome shape blends with nature & reduces material use
🎯 Full-frequency dome simplifies construction for DIY builders
📐 Precision Matters: No-Waste Material Design
Lynov showcased how to optimize the greenhouse tunnel so every millimeter of a 6-meter polycarbonate sheet is used.
♻️ Zero waste
💰 Lower building costs
🧰 Smarter off-grid engineering
🔥 Thermal Reactor vs. Hot Water Core
During modeling, Lynov reconsidered the massive 4-meter thermal reactor, proposing a more practical solution:
🪵 Super-insulated hot water storage
🔅 Heated by wood chips in winter
☀️ Heated by sun in summer
This shows how digital modeling speeds up real-world decision-making.
🧖 Real-World Space Planning
Using Rhino’s measurement tools, students evaluated the true floor space of the sauna dome, turning abstract numbers into real, livable dimensions.
📏 4.3m diameter measured digitally
🧍♂️ Students visualized real human movement inside the space
🧱 Self-Build Mindset: Precision + Sustainability
Day 4 wasn’t just software training—it was a blueprint for off-grid empowerment:
🎯 Precision drafting
🌿 Sustainable building choices
🧠 Confidence to design & build your own off-grid structures
The Wautillarium project proves that advanced digital tools + DIY building systems can bring ambitious off-grid homes within reach of everyday preppers, homesteaders, and self-reliant families.