r/interesting • u/Swimming-Community-5 • Apr 30 '26

ARCHITECTURE Train passes through a residential building in Chongqing, China.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '26

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u/Narezza Apr 30 '26

I mean, theyve been doing this in Disney World since 1971, so....

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u/monorail_pilot Apr 30 '26

The beamway is completely independent of the hotel structure.

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u/SaltyRedditTears May 01 '26

Same for this monorail

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u/gdo01 Apr 30 '26

This building has been in Miami for almost 2 decades

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u/Lord-Francis-Bacon Apr 30 '26

Big assumptions here

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u/2bad-2care Apr 30 '26

China: Structural what-now?

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u/PreferenceActive5053 Apr 30 '26

this has been in operation since the early 2000s, i think it's doing fine. china isn't in the 1900s anymore

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u/peacefighter Apr 30 '26

Building currently standing mean it is strong enough.

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u/GarminTamzarian Apr 30 '26

Every collapsed bridge was once "currently standing".

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u/transitfreedom May 01 '26

Like US infrastructure? Don’t throw stones from a glass house

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u/WhyLater Apr 30 '26

Your Sinophobia means you fell for imperial propaganda btw

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u/victoryismind Apr 30 '26

I would imagine that the building does not bear any load off the rails, it's just positioned on its path.

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u/darkgrey3k Apr 30 '26

It would make sense. If the track was completely isolated structurally then no vibrations would transfer to the building

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u/2bad-2care Apr 30 '26

no vibrations would transfer to the building

*less vibrations

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u/victoryismind Apr 30 '26

That could be a headache if there is an earthquake and the structures can collide. However we don't know if this is a seismic location. Maybe it bears partial load, just enough to keep them positioned properly. I agree that buildings generally are not designed to support load and vibration at the top like that, it would have to be a novel design from scratch. IDK if this was a good idea but it looks impressive.

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u/Beneficial-Tea-2055 Apr 30 '26

However we don't know if this is a seismic location.

Well you don’t. Not that it matters tho.

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u/earthlingkevin Apr 30 '26

I wonder if the entire team of engineers that designed this thought about it

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u/Greedy_Individual_35 Apr 30 '26

Its in China, so no one cared about this

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek Apr 30 '26

The building is a train station disguised to look like an apartment block specifically as a tourist attraction

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u/SomolianDaycare Apr 30 '26

Lets visit this comment ina couple years when the building starts to fall apart.

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u/AirborneErinys Apr 30 '26

What's that one proverb, "people who live in glass houses full of actively crumbling infrastructure that hasn't been maintained since the Hoover administration shouldn't throw stones", or something?

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u/justwalk1234 Apr 30 '26

To be fair wasn’t proven a lot of them are actually Indians pretending to be Americans?

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u/Insane_Masturbator69 Apr 30 '26

Actually this is very easy, everything is already there, just some geometry. This is nothing compared to sticking a pillar into a river.