not really

like a concrete dome structure

vs a traditional wood framed house

yes but traditional wood framed houses arnt actually designed for duribility and the design for duribility has degraded even further with the avent of modern technology

sure a concrete dome is basicly the most durible design you can get next to perhaps a pagoda, and it eventually trumps even that when you downscale it. just a shame no one ever makes concrete dome houses which has always bothered me especially in tornado alley where we just keep replacing houses with buildings that will fail just the same way as old ones

honestly a wooden dome could stand just as well against most problems as a concrete one

its all a matter of the shape, wind cant grab a ball, and a ball is a great shape for displacing stress from an earthquake

dome's only problem is water

a wood dome on stilts wouldent work but a concrete one would be to heavy for wind to do anything about

yeah dude, I live in the hurricane zone and they need to start building homes that way, because the storms are increasing with regularity and severity. The dome also has a very aestheticly pleasant shape and look to, building a wooden dome would be pretty hard compared to concrete

imo

europeans dont much care for dome shapes

they make amazing sealants for concrete now, you'd just have to make sure you stayed up on the sealant routine

though i kinda like it

im a bit fan of dragonball's aesthetic

euros don't have hurricanes up their ass 7 months a year

that's a valid point

americans come from the same stock of people who dont find domes aesthetic

though personally if i was in charge of the government id just force people to get domes if the state has to put emergency funds into rebuilding for them

haha yeah, but it aesthetics aside, do you want to dwell in a structure that will keep you save, or will end up looking like it went through a woodchipper with you inside of it

free house? better not be destroyed like the last one

yeah dude, builders love rebuilding structures over and over again

maybe

on the goverments dime

thing about a hurrican zone though is like i said you need a dome on stilts or a dome with 2 floors and dedicate the bottom floor to a swimming pool

folks in the mid west just need the shape though

might as well make it a sphere and top it off with inflatable space.

tsunami? your concrete house is now a floating marble in the ocean

though that's a pipedream, what with how heavy concrete is

aircrete floats XD

... ooohhhh

making something like that air tight is way expensive

you know what also floats? galleons until you turn them over

why am I pondering floating aircrete villages anchored over reefs?

but yeah, making something like that airtight would be... challengingly expensive

that sounds pretty sweet, they just need to create an amazing sealant

and a really strong anchor, a reef would break and your ass would be sucked out to sea lol

you have to create a strong center of gravity below it too

the problem is that you'd need airlocks on everything

and waterproof ventilation

if your center of gravity is somewhere in the middle the house will turn over and over and youll probably be beaten to death by the walls, floors, cealings, and your furnature