A domed house would take significantly less damage in a tornado than a box home. Why aren't there dome house neighborhoods.

This sort of house should be common place especially with the ability to 3D print homes.

because they are ugly as dog shucks!

I've read some on dome structures but I was also missed by 800 yards in 2011. That wind takes what it wants. I'm still not good in tornadoes.

He’s right again! That’s one ugly house.

Most of the time it’s not THAT the wind is blowing, but WHAT the wind is blowing. They don’t ever tout how well those things hold up against a tree limb at 200mph. And once there’s an opening in the ext wall, it’s done.

Plus, try hanging pictures, arranging square pcs of furniture, etc in a house with curved walls.

Exactly

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That was my first thoughts as well. Looks like a dwelling out of a Star Wars movie.

Is that Sir Mix-a-Lot's house?

How many days til deer season?

Too many disadvantages for the 99.99% of the time when there isn’t a tornado. Lots of wasted space, higher construction costs, etc.

Out of curiosity, why would it be higher construction costs?

I’m being serious. I don’t build houses, but when I look at it, it looks to be that the exterior is fitted together with modular panels that are probably fabricated at a plant somewhere, then shipped to the consumer.

I can see potential cost savings in no shingles, rafters, and osb. No brick, stucco, or siding.
Assuming exterior would be cheaper.

Interior I’d assume to be framed walls same as a stick built home, so no curves on the walls. Everything is framed internally same as traditional built home?

Insulation, wiring, plumbing, slab, etc…..no cost savings.

reminds me of Whoville from The Grinch.

When you hang the drywall on the exterior walls, it’ll get labor intensive. I couldn’t imagine how many extra joints there would be to tape.

I don’t wanna live in an igloo but I’m about to build a new barndominium and before pour the slab I’m gonna build a 10x12 box with a doorway out of 1/2 plate and put a vault door on it with dual operation


I think valuables, like my wife and her shoes, can survive anything in that.

I don’t think you’d hang it to the curve. I think internally you’d have to frame just like a traditional house. Pretty sure the same thing with the metal building type structures you see folks building with.

I am not sure though.

Well that would be a lot of wasted space. It looks like a house you would see on Alderon in Star Wars

There's a tornado proof house in a nice subdivision off Hwy 53 north of Huntsville. It's built in a hill facing East . Only thing you see is the front. When you come down the street it looks like a vacant lot till you get around the other side. I'd rather have a square house built in a hill than that multi igloo thing pictured above.

That's a perfect area to have one too , if there's a tornado outbreak anywhere in the Southeast US , strong chance there will be one in that area.

Other than poured concrete walls, that’s about the only way to have a truly tornado proof house.

All of the residential dome structures I’ve seen are geodesic. The actual dome portion is constructed with a couple hundred 3’ equilateral triangles framed with 2x4’s. So it is not just bending the exterior sheathing and drywall to a radius. You have to cut the triangles out of a square piece of material for every one of them.