Do you have any suggestions for my childs project?

Question

my child needs to create a house that is earthquake,tornado,hurricane,and tsunami resistance house.

Answer 1

You can't protect against all those hazards at once, but they're not likely to all happen at once. So you have to design it to disconnect wind resistance when an earthquake happens and vice versa.

For hurricane resistance, the roof and walls should be reinforced and tied together with steel. The bottoms of the walls should be anchored to the foundation.

For tornado resistance, the house must be underground. The roof must either be very strong and tied down to the concrete walls with steel rebar, or it must be a deap layer of earth.

For earthquake resistance the house should be able to float on its foundation without moving while the foundation shakes all over the place. The walls should have diagonal steel braces or straps.

For tsunami protection, it depends on how big the tsunami might be. For a small one it is best to have a ground floor that washes away so the upper floors can survive on stilts. For a big one, the house should be built like Noah's ark, always ready to float away. Where I live, we are expecting a 100 foot tsunami anytime in the next 500 years. About the only way we might survive would be to have a big hot-air balloon on the roof, ready to fly in 20 minutes or less.

Answer 2

It will be hard to make it all 4, but nothing a little imagination cannot cure. for the tornado part try having a house built partially underground, (this will reduce electric costs for heating and cooling as well). then for the tsunami, build the roof facing the shore with a slant facing only in that direction this will displace the water as it rushes toward the house. now for the earthquake part, when the house is built underground try placing some kind of shock absorbing materials around the house ( the part that is underground) and make sure the house has a very small amount of flexibility to it ( so it moves with the ground slightly but not much) this will help prevent the house being shaken apart. now for the hurricane use the same method as the tsunami with the roof slanting toward the water, since hurricanes come from the ocean, it will act as a break with the winds and again with the water. The entrance to the house should be in the back (the part that faces away from the water). won't proof it form all of those but will make it to where it has a fighting chance of surviving all 4 events

Answer 3

create small metal brackets, like hurricane ties (AKA construction connectors), place them on every piece of 2x4 simulation in the home. This will be the best way, use only roof tile not shingles. I work for a home builder and these are just some small suggestion that will be the closest to what you need.

Oh yeah and also, use a brick or stucco for the exterior no siding.

Hope this helps

Answer 4

no such thing as a tornado proof anything.or earthquake proof unless its a big rubber ball surrounded by a steel box,buried underground with a months worth of oxygen, food and water and a transporter than can get you out after the flood waters subside.the dome shape is the shape that resists hurricanes and i imagine if there were big styrofoam things on the sides it could float.

Answer 5

build it underground to resist the tornados, hurricanes, and somewhat to tsunamis.

as for earthquakes, keep the cross-sectional area to a minimum, so it's less likely to be displaced. being underground should help too - because the confining pressure will keep it from shaking too bad.

Answer 6

for tsunami, make it high off the ground, and let it hang from a pole, like maybe on a rope, with a stabilizer, like a spring. and maybe have it low to the ground, and maybe make a hole in the ground below it to have the poles retract into the ground so the house goes in the ground too.

Answer 7

Keep rubber pad or spring at the bottom. Give X type of re enforcement to all the structure.

Answer 8

an underground house built into the side of a hill

Answer 9

when creating the house make sure it's low to the ground and made out of concret. hoped that helped.

best of luck. ttyl :D

Answer 10

have him take a cardboard box to school--they're walls bend and they move easily, and are small enough strong winds shouldn't damage them.