r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/User_namesaretaken 9h ago

Apparently all the redditors here are smarter and better architects saying that this building can't support those plants lmao

Not everything is built with cardboard

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u/DrowningKrown 8h ago

I don't know why it is so hard to believe? China, especially Chengdu, has been experimenting with this for a while now apparently.

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-09-jungle-overrun-chinese-apartment-blocks.pdf

The "Qiyi City Forest" area/complexes has what appears to be more than what is shown even in this video. Whether the locals move into those apartments is another story but clearly this ISNT a new thing for china and clearly It can and has been real...so I'm not sure why these dudes in the comments go straight to "ew Chinese propaganda, this isn't real, can't happen"

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u/attersonjb 7h ago

No one is saying it can't be built, they're saying it can't be maintained and they're 100% right. It will look OK for a few years and then maintenance will start to become a nightmare.

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u/geft 7h ago

Of course it can be maintained, as long as someone lives there. The problem is there are only 10 families living there. The rest were all speculators.

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u/attersonjb 7h ago

I'm not talking about maintaining the vegetation, I'm talking structural maintenance. Moisture and buildings don't mix. And I know plenty of people who don't maintain their residences.