8 features of a typhoon-resistant house 1. Highly replicable 2. Uses durable materials 3. 4-side slope roofs 4. Stilts 5. Tempered glass with protective sticker 6. Storm shutters 7. Safe, elevated location 8. Revise building standards http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issu...olanda/44283-features-typhoon-resistant-house
Ive been inside a large native house during a signal number 3.. The eye of the storm passed directly over us..Eery feeling that.. After ten minutes the rain was hitting us horizontally with huge gusts.. The worst thing that happened was the wooden sliding windows blew in.. We had to nail them back in with 4 inch nails.. Surprising but the nipa roof survived. Probably the biggest danger to houses during these high wind storms are things that fall on them.. We had 15 meter high banana trees..Very heavy and the first to fall.. Second were papayas and then the odd Mahogany tree.. Anything like this within close proximity will damage the house without question.. Houses close to the sea are at risk as seen in Tacloban.. Elevation of floor as much as possible to reduce the possibility of serious flooding from water surges.. Im very confident that our native house would have survived the typhoon that leyte experienced had it swerved towards Bohol..The only way I can back up that claim is the fact that we did not evacuate. That said,the Mrs is planning a concrete steel reinforced walled cottage with a concrete roof slab..All dressed with a native cladding disguise including cogon roof etc... What the lady wants..The lady gets!
Have a look at dome construction - I read elsewhere that it is typhoon-proof and also can be significantly safer during an earthquake too.
Our house in the province (western samar) apparently only had damage to the screen doors! It is a double skin plywood house on stilts with a metal roof. I was fully expecting the roof to be gone but I think the main reason it survived is it is effectively a sieve. There are that many gaps in it (regardless of the ever growing amount of mosquito netting the wife seems to think will stop beasties getting in) that the wind basically just whistles through it. So there can't really be any real pressure difference between outside and inside. Saying that she wants to build a block house next and I have a feeling that could fair worse
