Springs are rather pointless in a hurricane. There are well tested methods for keeping a house together in the wind and water damage situations - tying all the wood framing together during construction, fastening the house to the ground and providing a storage only blowout ground floor are all factors - see famous picture of lone house on Galveston area after Hurricane Ike. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php...
Houses are typically cheap enough that this sort of precaution isn't warranted. However, high-rises are already built this way. Lookup seismic isolation, or building isolation bearings. Typically these bearings are lead layers separated by rubber so that as the ground shakes, the building stays stationary and the layers of lead slip to account for the displacement.
Check the links for a variety of isolation techniques:
http://articles.architectjaved.com/earth...
http://www.pretread.com/baseisolation.ht...
http://www.agom.it/index.aspx?m=53&did=5...
http://www.rslnz.com/?pgRq=showDoc&item=...
Been done. Uncle Sam does that with most of the underground military command buildings.
Sounds expensive. Let's do it then!
a building made of shocks or springs were if a hurricane comes your building moves side two side with out falling mark Anthony simon
