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   brownbagg | Sep 11, 2009 04:41am | #1

   i like
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   Jgriff | Sep 11, 2009 05:12am | #2

   Flat roof?

   Not for me.

   Griff
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   reinvent | Sep 11, 2009 06:09am | #3

   Look again. It has a slight pitch 2/12 I'd say.

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   Righty_Tighty | Sep 11, 2009 06:40pm | #4

   Round roof has sod on it.  Got a feeling they've got a better idea than shedding water.

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   DanH | Sep 11, 2009 07:16pm | #5

   Problem is that a round structure wastes materials and space.

   As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
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   Shoemaker1 | Sep 11, 2009 09:43pm | #6

   Should ask the Eskimo's about that?

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   Henley | Sep 11, 2009 09:56pm | #7

   Not wasting any concrete. The usual claim is more space in the round. Not sure I buy
   that myself, but that is the dome sales pitch.

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   webted | Sep 11, 2009 11:06pm | #8

   You could build a real house right next door.

   Then you'd have a great cistern...

   -t

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   brownbagg | Sep 12, 2009 03:57am | #9

   I really like that house, Hurricane come and all you worry about is: where the Disney dvd's and do you have enough cheestos

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   DanH | Sep 12, 2009 04:07am | #10

   I don't think it'll protect you from a 20-foot storm surge.
   As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz

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   brownbagg | Sep 12, 2009 04:14am | #11

   everybody talks about the storm surge, The storm surge is limited to the first 1000 feet from the coast. Hurricane winds goes hundred of miles inland. less than 1% of the people involved with hurricanes deal with storm surges. most of these are vacant rental and vaction homes.although Katina had a thirty foot surge it only went in couple hundred feet in mississippi

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   DanH | Sep 12, 2009 04:29am | #12

   True in some cases and not others. I recall a hurricane in the 60s (can't locate the one) that caused storm surge flooding 5 miles inland. And there's the inland flooding due to rainfall.Katrina was actually an "inferior" storm in many ways -- it just happened to hit one of the most vulnerable areas of the coast.
   As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz

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   florida | Sep 12, 2009 05:21am | #13

   Wow, it'll be nice to know that it's not surge water that's 3 feet deep in my yard during the next hurricane like the last one. Kind of makes me wonder why I have to buy flood insurance too.

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   Dreamcatcher | Sep 12, 2009 06:08am | #14

   Looks like another "eco" gimmick to me.

   Curved walls are great and can be used to create a number of statements.

   Round houses are just architectural schtick. Lowbrow in my opinion.

   When I was in high school I designed a round house as a drafting project. Although I still think I made a good attempt at the time, today I would never stoop to that level. I still don't know how round gives more space. I vividly recall how difficult it was to create usable space using straight partition walls on the interior. Lots of awkward crevices.

   Even if they are just using the round part as a statement, the whole is quite unappealing to my eye.

   Anyways, I think in the "cool to be green" world of today, there is no reason to use uncommon architecture to make a good eco-friendly house.

   DC