Given the frequency of violent natural calamities hitting the world of late, I guess it’s not entire foolhardy for people to look towards unconventional resources as potential building materials. And that’s exactly what prefab home manufacturer Japan Dome House Co., Ltd. have done. The company has created an easy-to-assemble modular home building kit that uses Styrofoam as a basic material to create an igloo-shaped structure built from snap-together wall sections.

Made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam, the Dome House is being called the “habitat for the 21st century” thanks to its numerous advantages over traditional materials like wood and metal. The rot-proof, water-proof and termite-proof structure is also highly resistant to earthquakes and typhoons with excellent thermal insulation properties leading to higher energy efficiency.

The prefabricated segments weigh in at about 80 kilograms each and can be carried and assembled by 2 to 3 people in just over a few hours time and can offer a 25 ft wide and 13 ft tall structure with 44.2 square meters of floor space inside. The whole structure is entirely expandable so more pieces can always be joined together to make larger buildings.

The best part is that the versatile structures can be used as karaoke rooms, steam rooms, bars, hotel rooms, restaurants, freezer rooms, or even as poultry farms! The Dome House kits retail for 3 million yen which is roughly $30,000 and have been approved by Japan’s Land and Transport Ministry for civilian use. Watch the instructional video below just in case you want to build yourself one these handy Dome Homes sometime in the future.

Source: Pink Tentacle