Seit Jahrzehnten gibt es Architekten, die Entwürfe für futuristische Kuppelhäuser entwerfen. Hierbei handelt es sich um Häuser, die, wie der Name schon sagt, eine abgerundete Kuppelform haben, die keine flachen Oberflächen haben.
Der Grund, warum diese Form wichtig ist, ist, dass sich der Wind auf ebenen Flächen einfängt. So werden Dachkanten und die flachen Seiten von Häusern zu Oberflächen, an denen starke Winde sie festhalten und auseinanderreißen können.
Bei Häusern mit Kuppel ist dieses Problem nicht der Fall. Da das Haus eine runde Form hat, umhüllt der Wind auf natürliche Weise die Oberfläche. Aufgrund des aerodynamischeren Designs trägt es dazu bei, direkte Windschäden an einem Haus zu begrenzen.
Beispiele für gewölbte Hausdesigns:
- Beispiel – Großer wellenförmiger Komplex, tief in den Boden gebaut.
- Beispiel – Große Betonkonstruktionen
- Beispiel – Traditionellere Holzhütten
- Beispiel – Strahlend weiße Kuppeln, eingehüllt in viel Grün
Küstengemeinden müssen anfangen, diese ernst zu nehmen. Die Realität ist, dass Versicherungsunternehmen nicht mehr bereit sein werden, Pläne für konventionelle Häuser zu unterzeichnen. Das Risiko regelmäßigerer Hurrikane verhindert dies.
Hier ist ein Video von vor 12 Jahren, in dem sie einen Mann interviewen, der in einem Kuppelhaus lebt. Er hat neun Hurrikane in seinem Haus erlebt und jedes Haus in seiner Nachbarschaft wurde ersetzt, AUSSER seines.
Diese Häuser sind wirklich die einzige Option, wenn Menschen weiterhin an der Küste leben wollen. Das ist es, oder akzeptieren Sie, dass alle paar Jahre ein Umbau erforderlich ist.
Coastal cities need to start taking domed housing more seriously if they want to remain safe.
byu/TapTheMic inFuturology
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There are lots of coasts that aren’t hurricane territory, and hurricane territory isn’t limited to just the coast. I feel like you have misidentified the relevant demographic here.
Futuristic domed designs are nice architecture, but what true housing projects would need are standard domed houses that are engineered to be space efficient and to fit in a scalable urban planning.
That’s the only way to keep the cost down for a new house type.
A large concrete building doesn’t have to be a dome to hold up a hurricane. It just has to be a large concrete building lol.
The dome shape is aerodynamic and as such, can be constructed of lighter materials than concrete, while being stable and strong. Flat surfaces act like sails and capture wind energy, which you don’t want in a storm.
The larger issue (at least from insurance companies perspective), is whether your home’s location is prone to flooding, is in a flood plane, or in a high-risk coastal region. The real cost of hurricane damage is water from storm surge not wind. An expensive domed home won’t make a difference if it’s destroyed by salt water after the water recedes. The real solution is just not live on the coast. Or have so much money, you can build a fortress on the highest elevation around.
Although wind can cause damage in hurricanes, most normal-styled modern concrete homes built to hurricane code can survive even the worst hurricane winds with relatively minor damage. The flooding that occurs with the hurricanes is where the big money damages tend to be. Concrete homes mitigate some of this as the outer structure will probably survive, however, a complete tearout and rebuild of even a small concrete home will be in the hundreds of thousands for repair costs of cleaning, drywall, fixings and mechanicals.
The best houses for hurricanes currently are 2+ story modern concrete homes where the ground level is a flowthrough and doesnt have living space. But if the water erodes under the foundation, that house is toast anyways. Maybe we should just not build in places where large-scale natural disasters are an annual event?
Texas, louisiana, florida, mississippi, and california lead the nation in costs for natural disasters, which is for each of these states, 10-40x the average yearly cost than for most of the rest of the states. Allowing rebuilding in the disaster-prone areas of these states is a drain to the entire country – and your insurance premiums and tax dollars are paying for it.
Designing them is easy, building them is hard, building them with any semblance of quality is completely cost prohibitive.
As someone who was actually going to build a dome home and live in it. They are amazing and I have full plans for a monolith dome home you just cannot get comps for building it with a loan. I was very sad when I learned why there are no dome houses.