Spectacular rammed-earth dome home is tucked deep into a Costa Rican jungle

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Spectacular rammed-earth dome home is tucked deep into a Costa Rican jungle

There is something important here.   That is the building of a truly secure roof structure that is itself high and with additional open spaces that can allow light in that is no part of the actual housing.  It acts as a useful shade structure as well which allows additional vegetation as well.

With that roof, any form of locally crafted construct can then be built under this artificial canopy.  This is particularly useful in a jungle environment were daily downpours are common.

Wind storms are always a problem, but that needs to be engineered around.  Dropping the structure to the side may be possible.  Even rolling the roof panels down along rails like a common garage door could work for this.  After all we want protection from sunlight and heavy rain.

The wind is the real problem in many locales, but that is why most of our building codes are adopted.  Using stress skin panels it is possible to put up a building able to survive tornadoes and hurricanes.  Yet that is costly and constraining and  not otherwise useful.

Separating out wind response needs to be better addressed as this demonstrates.  A wind storm would blow the illustrated roof here away, but the associated rain would hardly bother the underlying buildings as it would be a one off event.