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The Under Wing Home, David Harrington

Masters Theses

It is quite astonishing that most homes being built today fail to adequately respond to natural disasters. Looking within the last decade, the data indicates that these disasters are more frequent than they once were, and are affecting a larger geographical area. Many believe that these patterns will only escalate. The magnitude and frequency of these tornadoes and hurricanes are hard to ignore. The power and destruction inflicted has affected most Americans in a multitude of ways.

We simply cannot continue to build homes using typical methods of construction in these disaster-prone areas. To re-build a home in the same …