Why, How, and What of

e-homes
 Why build new types of homes in rural India?

 To reverse flow from rural to urban areas by providing urban facilities in rural areas.
 Very few rich people are grabbing all resources, making poor poorer and starving the middle class.
Rural people are migrating to cities In search of jobs and wealth. Villagers are becoming poorer and
urban slums are expanding. By making rural living desirable with urban facilities, these trends can be
reversed.

 Why dome structures?

 They are 1. lightweight, portable. Possible to build them at one place. 2. Can be built in a week.
Important in disaster relief. 3. Strong, quakeproof.

 How can villages become desirable to live in? What is preventing improving villages?
 To make people want to stay in villages, we have make them match the comforts of city, plus saving
time to travel, and enjoy pollution free open spaces of villages. Unfortunately, every existing rural family
has its own assets and priorities of families and therefore cannot totally commit itself to village
empowerment. Only a family living in the village, and totally committed to developing it can do it.

 How can such a committed family be created?

 Instead of a family united by blood, we can unite it by a purpose. Think of small segments of three
kinds of homes: seniors, widows and orphans. Bring all of them together into a single home. Let us say
a middle aged woman and two street children can be selected from the village itself. Seniors can come
from outside to adopt a village, or the village itself. They could contribute to the cost of their home its
continued sustenance. They bond easily to children. The middle aged widow cooks, does laundry and
generally takes care of health and home needs.
 How can it empower the villages?

 Suppose we build some really comfortable homes in every village. Some homes can belong to
the entire village. Some can be private. Let us invite stakeholders to adopt a village. They can
come from Management Institutes, Govt., Corporates, Philanthophers, Voluntary agencies. One
family lives in a home which also functions as a village development centre. They are given a
laptop, internet and training to empower the entire village.

 The laptop can be used for e-governance, provide linkages to market information, banking, earn money
through showing edutainment films, provide continuous and accurate ground level village statistics,
educate adults in vocational skills, empower children through high class fun-study courses, create
village level MBAs and entrepreneurs, running a village level food production unit which releases woman
power for productive work.

 Done on a large scale, it can provide urban facilities in rural areas, and reverse the brain drain from
villages to urban centres. It can transform the face of rural India.
 What needs to be done- the goals

 Design and build a 1BHK home of 452 sft. It should be comfortably cool in summer and warm in
winter. It should have powerlesss a/c, cooking gas generator using kitchen waste, a laptop and
internet for edutainment-empowerment.

 Get all stakeholders such as Management Institutions, Govt agencies, Buiders, NGOs, Panchayats,
Trainers and Donors involved.

 Strategies for solving mass urban slum problems explore mass production vs Rural e-homes which
stress on production by villagers using local materials.

 Rapid response to Disaster rehabilitation camps should focus on basic parameters.

 Document the whole process and disseminate the know how for free over internet to all
stakeholders to spread it far and wide.
24ft Home Design
Shape and Assembly
 Cover and Stitching

at this 
distance
from
base width is 
(in feet) (inches)
18 0

16 10

14 20

12 30

10 39

8 46

6 52

4 56

2 59

0 60
Heat reflecting skin paint

Cover is stitched out of white khaki using shapes above. It is

painted on outside with hollow ceramic micro spheres in an acrylic
elastomer base. It is self healing. This important new technology
keeps the surface 30 deg C lower than any other surface exposed
to Sun reducing cooling load. Comfortable temperatures are
maintained in hot summers and cold winters.
 Foundation and
Geothermal Heat exchanger

Uses 1.5” coiled PVC pipes 5

ft underground for comfort
air conditioning

Temperature of soil 5 ft below ground level is nearly

constant at a comfortable level, 27-30 degrres C. Fresh
air from outside is sucked inside through 1.5 inch coils in
foundation by either a normal convection current, or a
small exhaust fan.

Coils act as heat exchangers. Inside home temperature is

always maintained at a good comfort level. Allergies and
dampness are controlled.
Typical Floor Plan

1 BHK, 452sft
 Let us do it, together
 Join Devipuram Seva Group and transform surrounding
villages for better. We can propagate this model all over India
to build a million homes to villages.
 Gift 100 e=homes to 100 villages with sweat equity as their
contribution. Cost can be under 3 Lakhs per home.
 Donors are invited to adopt a dome in a village.
 Volunteers will be trained to build e-homes.
 Management Institutions, Govt agencies, NGOs, Panchayats,
Trainers and Donors are invited.
 Make full documentation free to download.
 Promote self-empowerment and gaining spiritual strength.

Namastey
 Rough Costing

 Steel pipes, cut, holes 15000

 Cloth for 24 ft diam 10000
 Paint 10000
 Stitch and mount 10000
 Geothermal a/c 5000

 Toilet 15000
 Gas from kitchen waste 15000
 Furniture 30000
 e-home edu 30000
 Training 1 month 40000

 Total 200000
 Buffer 100000
 References
 https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1BusWigHhhmYjgtc0E3Vy0wTE0
&usp=sharing

 www.domerama.com Rich source of info and many possibilities.

 www.pacificdomes.com Has videos on how to make domes for living,

green house farming, conducting corporate events, etc.

 www.desertdomes.com Calculations for various types of big and small

domes