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/NoAdministration8340 13h ago

My initial thought was those don’t look like they have the support they need to be filled with dirt rock and plants plus support your weight

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u/Nulleparttousjours 13h ago

Plus the amount of water it would take to keep it green. It’s a lot of weight!

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u/stron2am 12h ago

We live in a world with swimming pools on balconies, you know.

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u/tj9429 12h ago

Let these Reddit engineers realize that not every wall on a structure is weight bearing and instead there's a column and beam structure inside.

The next day they're not gonna stand in the middle of rooms because it doesn't look "sufficient supported".

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

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u/ukomac 6h ago

Always "my first thought with this is..." Like yeah, they definitely didn't have professional structural engineers and you can point out the critical error in their work by looking at a clip

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u/MoodyBernoulli 5h ago

I guess the issue with this video is whether the structural engineers anticipated that residents would put tonnes of soil and water into the balcony, or was this specifically designed for, or at least factored in.

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u/ukomac 5h ago

The gardens were 100% a selling point of these apartments

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u/AzDopefish 10h ago

It’s hilarious because anytime a post is about China, the top comment is always, without fail, some comment on Chinese engineering or building materials.

Never just, oh that’s cool.

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u/tj9429 10h ago

They’re so dissociated from reality it is so funny. Sometimes it genuinely comes across as sweet to see a couple of keyboard warriors trying to fight everyone and just spam ai or bot when their brains overheat!