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I'd expect you also have these in the US, rather than the smallish real quonset huts
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The other end of the scale is homeless people living in culverts.
The local equivalent, ribless single-skin construction, does have more surface area. The curved inner face can promote air circulation if the inner walls are copacetic. A double-envelope passive house is certainly possible.
Spray-on cork paint can insulate and deaden the sound of rainfall. Inside, outside or both.
You might consider a 120 degree arc oriented East-West, on the ground to the North and raised eight feet to the South with a Solar wall. as the basis of an Earthship. Six inch air gap to the North and an atrium/gallery on the South