Antenna works for the statue; I'm not sure how a colony crashes. I thought perhaps you were reviving a defunct colony, but now it sounds like you were aiming to have several domes or somesuch, separated by empty space?

My first impression is that the entire area would be under a dome; perhaps translucent segments of the dome could be visible over some of the lower edges, but fade out very quickly, so as not to interfere with the play area. Also because you don't want villagers to walk over the graphic that they're supposed to appear to be underneath.

A livable, self-sufficient dome should, realistically, be pretty big, plenty big to cover the play area, I think.