Rick readily admits that between January 3, 2000 and January 3, 2001 he was not just building another Monolithic Dome home. "The purpose of this project was to do things that had not yet been done in other domes," he says. "We (Crandall Design Group) had three goals -- or areas of testing. "The first test was social acceptance. We purposely applied and didn't withhold any funds from architectural treatment because we wanted to measure or gauge the acceptance of domes as homes by people from very exclusive neighborhoods. And we found that while everyone has not accepted them 100%, we got a very high approval rating. So, domes are appealing to a different market, to people from homes twice the size and cost of ours."