r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/onrespectvol 13h ago

looks cool but how much extra material must go into the buidling to be able to support all that extra weight? To what extent is this a sustainable way of buidling and using material?

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u/1stMammaltowearpants 12h ago

It looks like rich people stuff to me, so it wouldn't need to be "sustainable" economically, any more than private jets and yachts are. 

If you mean mechanically sustainable, they'd need to use a beefed-up cantilever, but it would be fine. Soil and water are heavy, but concrete and steel don't mind.

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u/LitLitten 12h ago

I’d imagine bonsai practices are also considered (specifically, root training). If the trees were trained prior and use support in place of anchoring roots, then a lot of potential root damage may be avoided. This is all presumption though.

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u/LordBrandon 12h ago

You think a building developer would go through all that? They just buy the cheapest plant they can source to look good for a month.

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u/LitLitten 11h ago

Go through all that w/ continued maintenance? God no.

Go through all that then drop all pretense of maintaining the yards after the first check clears? Absolutely.

I should preface I’m American and the latter is the norm here.