Since I have no information about your house, I will try to give you information based on your climate. Although I am an electronics tech and interested in technology, I have found that passive systems are the best investment. They are low maintenance and comfortable. You will appreciate this later when you take vacations and the house takes care of itself. You can always add active systems later as you have time and money.
I can relate to what GCHurricane told us. I have been through force 5 hurricanes and know them up close and personal. Everyone should take this disaster as a lesson. The historical construction in the U.S.A. and Canada has been stick frame wood buildings, even along the coast line. In Mexico and the Southern parts of this hemisphere most homes are built with masonry just as in Europe and most of the world. Today they use steel reinforced concrete. Even the cheapest homes in Mexico are steel reinforced cinderblock. They never have to worry about wind damage, although some of the homes are in the flood surge area.
Any house in Tropic areas should have high ceilings and double hung windows with screens and strong shutters to protect them in storms. The best shutters I have seen are used in Europe of a all places. They are a roll down aluminum shades that are built in to the house.
There should be a tower on top of the house that is centrally located or over the kitchen to create a vacuum that sucks the hot air out of the house, but can be closed by a srong shutter. An attic fan can be used for a house that was built with low ceilings. In your latitude a North facing porch should be used to shade the house, and the West side should have a wall or trees to shade the house in the afternoon sun. Screened sleeping porches were used in the past, but porches should now be built from steel reinforced concrete columns and roofs to keep the lifting forces from tearing the roof off the house.
Decidous trees always help to shade, but can be a problem in high winds when they fall on the house. Banyan trees are best for cooling if they will grow in your area, but they take a while to grow and grow very large. The first priority should be thick walls of stone, Concrete, Adobe, or thick stucco. The color of the roof should be light colored and heavy, but reinforced to survive high winds and hail. reinforced concrete with a concrete wash is good unless you have overhanging trees which would drop leaves and sap on it and promote growth of moss.
A Solar air conditioning system using an absoption refrigerant in your area should best use a trough type parabolic system that focuses on a tube type collector that is enclosed in a vacuum container such as a glass tube. This would give a low profile to high winds, use minimal control systems, and would only have to be protected from hail. If You reinforced the roof they could be mounted there and provide shading also.
For protection from hail you could use remote impact sensing panels on poles at the perimeters of your property to activate motors to turn the collectors upside down to protect them. These sensors would be similar to antitheft tape on windows that sense an impact, just make sure you protect them from birds with a fishing line barrier. The problem in your area is that the storms move so fast that the sensors and motors may not be able to respond fast enough.
There is another alterative, if your storms are similar to some others I have seen in Tropical areas. There is normally a reversal of wind from a gentle morning land breeze that slacks at noon and then comes in from the coast rapidly around 3 to 4 PM as the humid air feeds the storm right before it reverses and the downdraft from the storm hits you. There is a low level cloud that precedes the thunderhead to the coast it will shade the collectors, and a photovoltaic sensor could turn the collectors over before the storm hits.
Ammonia's use as a refrigerant today is mainly for industrial sized units and consumer refrigerators for RV's, boats, and homes where electricity is unavailable. It may be hard to find a unit for air conditioning a house. Anhydrous ammonia's use as a refrigerant has gone out of favor due to the hazardous vapors. It's use is also now regulated in some countries due to its possible use as a chemical weapon by terrorists or the production of methamphetamine. The last home A/C unit I saw was made by Servel which is now Dometic, and that was 20 years back. Ammonia has been replace in absorption systems by AQUEOUS LITHIUM BROMIDE.
If you decide to use Ammonia the best way to deal with the hazardous vapours if it leaks is to use a heat exchange system to seperate the indoor heat exchange loop from the ammonia refrigerant loop which is kept outside. The current cooling loops use a propylene glycol/water solution. This solution is also stored in insulated tanks to give cooling between day and night. In your proposed Solar use, the stored solution would be used at night. In commercial builings it is used to cool during the day, and the refrigeration units are run at night when the electricity is cheaper.
ETHYLENE GLYCOL IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH PROPYLENE GLYCOL!!! ETHYLENE GLYCOL IS NORMAL AUTOMOTIVE ANTIFREEZE AND WILL DESTROY YOUR LIVER AND KILL YOU IF INGESTED. Propylene Glycol is used in food products like canned onion rings and to winterize RV water systems.
The mention of greenfreeze by Aelric is not relevant to your situation since this is a compressor refrigerant, and you need an absorption refrigerant for a solar system. Propane and butane were used as a mechanical compressor type refrigerant in electric powered home refrigerators till the 50's or 60's and there are still many of these old refrigerators that are still working. The problem with them is when they leak the flammable refrigerants. This has confused many people recently since propane is burned to heat ammonia absorption refrigerators in RV's and Boats when shore power is unavailable.
Evaporative systems are best used in low humidity areas. There are new systems that do not draw the humidified air in to the house, but use a heat exchanger to keep the indoor air seperated from the chilled and humidified air, but they may not be efficient in your area.
I wish you the best on your voyage in life
Will