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Dazzling Light Enterprises Founder and General Manager Jenelyn Yuson (fifth from right) and the whole Philippine Monolithic Dome team believe in providing solutions to climate change and food security. Behind is the Ubay Bohol Cold Storage project of the Department of Agriculture for rice optimization program for farmers. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
Dazzling Light Enterprises Founder and General Manager Jenelyn Yuson (fifth from right) and the whole Philippine Monolithic Dome team believe in providing solutions to climate change and food security. Behind is the Ubay Bohol Cold Storage project of the Department of Agriculture for rice optimization program for farmers. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
TAKING inspiration from the igloo or snow house of Eskimos, American architect Lee Knell built the first modern monolithic dome structure in Provo, Utah and opened it as an ice skating rink in 1963.

It was converted into a general store by the new owner in 1967 and called Turtle Reams until it was demolished for new construction in 2006. Its demolition demonstrated the durability of the monolithic dome structure when a wrecking ball demolished a strip several feet wide around the perimeter without collapse, and finally tipped over only when a doorway on one side was pulled down, accord-ing to accounts.

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