InGen's architetural choices

I recently rewatched Jurassic Park (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), and Jurassic Park III (2001).

And I noticeed how flimsy the buildings built by InGen were.

Apparently Hammond saved on expenses by building rather flimsy buildings.

Didn't anyone tell him that the labs could be destroyed and years of work and millions or billions of dollars lost if a tropical hurricane hit islands belonging to Costa Rica in the tropical zone of the Pacifice Ocean.

The islands are obviously volcanic in origin, like the Hawaiian Islands where many scenes were filmed, and there may be a possibility that the volcanoes could erupt someday.

And of course they were growing dinosaurs, including huge dangerous dinsoaurs. Huge meat eating dinosaurs whch might want to break into buildings and eat people. And gigantic sauropod dinosaurs which might possibly be stampeded and smash through buildings.

So you might expect the buildings to be made out of reinforced concrete or something.

But instead, on Isla Sorna only about 4 years after the buildings were abandoned, the building complex has been taken over by the wilderness. There are broken windows, broken walls, and broken ceilings everywhere. The buildings leak prehistoric monsters like crazy.

Elephants have been known to stampede during circus parades in American towns. In one incident more than a century ago, the stampeding elephants smashed into a wood frame building, through all the interior walls, and out through the wall on the other side.

In a Victorian era magazine article, there was mention of incidents when large bull Asian elephants chased away all the people in Indian villages, and picked up houses (no doubt tiny ones) and tossed them around, splintering when they hit the ground.

If you look at maps of India, you will see that the easternmost part of India is connected to the rest of India by a narrow strip north of Bangladesh. When a highway was built across that section it crossed an elephant trail, and several elephants were killed crossing it. So the herd made a new trail, which happened to go through a village. The herd got a big bull elephant to chase away the villagers and then demolish all the buildings.

The men cursed to no avail
as women did their fate bewail.
The elephant's ire, more fierce than fire,
laid low their barns and houses frail.

The finale of Elephant walk (1954) is certainly possible.

And many herbivores like triceratops and carnivores like Tyrannosaurus got even larger than the largest elephants. To say nothing of potentially stampeded sauropods.

So the flimsy design of InGen's buildings is quite a mystery.