Why, How, and What

of

e-homes

Why build new types of homes in rural India?

To reverse flow of people 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.

How can we create jobs, better education and make villages desirable to live in?

By providing better education, the mother of all empowerments. Building comfortable homes in
villages makes people stay there. Unfortunately, every existing rural family has its own assets and
priorities 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 do we create such a family?

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. We build
a comfortable home for them, one per village. It belongs to the entire village. Their sole purpose is to
empower the villagers. We train them to do it.

How can it help the villages?

A family lives in a village totally committed to its development. They use their home as a
village development center. They use a laptop, internet and training. It can empower the
entire village.

A 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 brain drain
from villages to urban centers. It can transform the face of rural India.

What needs to be done- the goals

Build a 1BHK home of 452 sft. Provide a laptop and internet. It should be
comfortably cool in summer and warm in winter.
Rapid building should be possible. 1 week should be a reasonable estimate.
For the price of one urban flat ~30 lakhs, build 10 such homes in 1 year
2 in Devipuram for guests of limited means, and proof of concept.
8 gifted to villages as their common property.
Document the whole process and disseminate the know how for free over
internet for Voluntary agencies to take it forward.

24ft Home
Design

Shape and
Assembly

Design Cover, Stitch,

Paint

Out
Radius
A
A+B
2A+B
3A+B
3A+2B

Tot
O Perim Struts
Struts Gap
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
635.25B
585.1 50.1
1370.510C
1196.0 174.6
2005.85(2A+B) 1596.1 409.6
1822.12
4
1781 41.0
1822.12
4
1781 41.0

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,
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.
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

References

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