What is a Dyson Sphere around a planet called?

Imagine that we start expanding the International Space Station until it becomes a ring encircling the whole Earth. Then we started widening the ring until it met at both poles, forming an orbital eggshell around the entire planet.

Ignoring all the problems, like that it's starving the planet's surface for sunlight. What would you call this kind of enormous space station?

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