Domed home in California is designed to feel both "ancient and otherworldly"

[Celerity]

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/06/29/domed-home-california-hata-anastasiya-dudik/













A white concrete dome punctured by porthole-like windows shelters this holiday home in California, designed by Ukrainian designer and builder Anastasiya Dudik. Named HATA and located in the desert of Pioneertown, an area of California known for its wild west film sets, the dwelling was designed to be a simple refuge for a "a slower, more connected way of being". Dudik, who is a self-taught designer and builder, drew on her memories of Soviet-era brutalism as well as California's history of futuristic, domed architecture to arrive at the distinctive form of the home.













"The core concept was 'future primitive' – a return to organic, ancestral forms through a futuristic lens," Dudik told Dezeen. "Inspired by the natural curves of the surrounding desert landscape, the design was meant to feel both ancient and otherworldly," she continued. "It's a sculptural, earth-integrated structure that invites a slower, more connected way of being - at once deeply rooted and forward-looking."













Internally, the circular plan of HATA is divided into two segments, with one containing an open living, dining and kitchen area and the other a pair of en-suite bedrooms. A set of folding glass doors open the living space out onto a terrace with a circular swimming pool, fire pit and seating areas, which connect via a walkway to a covered carport and driveway at the home's entrance.













Throughout the interior, small circular and arched windows have been strategically cut out of the concrete shell, including around a sunken conversation pit, above the bathrooms and next to the dining table and beds. All of the openings in the dome, as well as its perimeter edge, have been lined with thin strips of lighting that create a warm glow at night.

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[Moostache]

1. Sorry, I was a child of the 1970's and was 6 when I saw "Star Wars"...

There is simply no way I'm not hearing Alec Guiness (Obi-Wan) give the speech to Mark Hamill (Luke) about "before the dark times....before the Empire" in damn near every one of those pictures! The core memories are too deep in this fanboy for that to illicit any other reaction!

[highplainsdem]

3. My first thought, too.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Fred Flintstone's home in Hillsborough, California looks ancient, too

Yabba Dabba Doo!



https://www.almanacnews.com/real-estate/2023/06/12/the-house-of-yabba-dabba-doo/

[localroger]

4. It's a nice execution, but not particularly new

It's a Monolithic Dome. And yes, it's trademarked; they've been made by the 1970's. Polyurethane foam is sprayed inside an inflatable form, this in turn supports gunite (spray concrete) to complete the superstructure. The result is well-insulated and tornado and earthquake proof. This is a nice example of taking the resulting structure and exploring what is possible with the inevitable resulting form. I like the conversation pit and the negative-space reflecting pool. It's much more interesting than the usual approach, which is to make the super tough dome as much like a normal building inside as possible.

[flying rabbit]

5. I like it

[electric_blue68]

6. TY, Celerity! Pretty cool. Some nice spaces!

[wanderer54]

7. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

[Coventina]

8. I love your architectural posts, Celerity. I ADORE this one!!!

It looks easy to care for (aside from the pool, I'd probably skip the pool).

Conversation pits are my kink! I LOVE them!!!!!