[hayden55]

My friend bought a house in a new neighborhood with an hoa. After a year of having the HOA the company emailed the neighborhood and said they were discontinuing the HOA since nobody cared lol. So i guess its possible!
Maybe look into rules on voting and see about getting rid of it, but depending on your neighborhood if its fancy and old it probably ain't going anywhere.
I agree with the dome being a fantastic way to direct air. Architecture, almost a form of engineering even though it isn't technically, focuses a lot on wall/window facings and putting windows up high and low which can open to direct airflow all with convection currents. This was really popular before solar and air source heat pumps became dirt cheap in the last 5 years (almost dirt cheap, but so cheap it makes the other methods make no sense now)
Which can be nice. The only problem i really see now is homes are so efficient now we really don't want any uncontrolled airflow into a house now. The new way is to seal the house up like a yeti cooler and treat the air before it comes in.
I'm willing to bet the issue with the dome is the awkward rectangular lots people are given, and non square or rectangular rooms waste a lot of space! The hard part with the efficient two story plan a lot of the time is figuring out how to incorporate the minimum roof pitch correctly so there's no wasted space in the rooms up stairs or weird 4 foot outer walls lol. So that could be a factor as well.
Its all about balance though. The engineer in me would be building an ugly minimum pitch rectangular house with no windows if it got its way, but then i draft it up and go my god thats ugly lol
I also have the single story ranch house with the 45* roof, the decorative front with the large ass windows, and 8', 8.75', 9', and 12' ceilings right now which is basically an energy nightmare on paper. But its purty.
At the end of the day i just always remember an energy nightmare and a energy efficiency based design in a similar building practice is really only a small difference in utilitys every month compared to the salary, but you know. The principle of spending money on utilities irks us all on here.