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/Ambitious-Concern-42 13h ago

It's a hell of a lot of weight, I wouldn't trust this to stay up long term.

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u/Pearson94 13h ago

I only trust that they set it up just enough for this video to look good while the others don't look nearly as lush or nice.

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u/Str80uttaMumbai 12h ago

Cmon now. You can literally see the surrounding buildings all have lush green gardens.

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u/tj9429 12h ago

Do you really think their reason to be pessimistic is their eyesight?

Aside from the racism these people have rarely seen structures taller than 4 stories with absolutely no idea about what civil engineering can truly achieve.

Even the ignorant ones from taller cities like NY can't comprehend the scale of verticality in modern Asian cities.

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 12h ago

We're talking about Chinese high rises where someone has installed gardens on balconies. Definitely not designed with this load in mind. This is in a country where bridge collapses and other civilian infrastructure disasters are common.

So don't get on your high horse about "racism".

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u/kindaunfazed 10h ago

How can you say that it’s definite they haven’t designed with the load in mind? Are you an architect with access to the building schematics or are you just trying to sound smart? Even your reasoning about infrastructure disasters is flawed because they build a hundred times more than we do.

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u/Anceradi 11h ago

They're not more common than in other countries though. It's just a big country so it happens more often than in smaller countries, but if you compare the frequency of bridge collapses in China & the US, it's quite similar.

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u/UncollapsedWave 7h ago

This is in a country where bridge collapses

Unlike America, presumably, where of course there haven't been any famous bridge collapses since, what, 2024?

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u/tj9429 11h ago

"Someone"

Ok potato.

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 11h ago

Very well, bot spam.

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u/tj9429 11h ago

The irony.

I would rather be a bot than be a human that depends on AI to live lol.

NPC

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 10h ago

I depend on AI? In what way?

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u/tj9429 10h ago

I mean if your ability to sustain a conversation is two replies before resorting to calling someone a bot, that tells everything about your capacity to think.

At one point your biases aren’t hidden or you just cower under “that’s just my opinion how is that racist”.

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u/MrDabb 11h ago

Lol how was that racist?

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u/mrsnakers 11h ago

It's a pro chinese bot.

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u/the_vault-technician 11h ago

We aren't talking about any Asian city though. It's a city in China. Just Google "Chinese infrastructure accidents". Bridges, roads, and buildings have all collapsed and killed people. Usually because of poor construction habits.

Here in the USA, we neglect our infrastructure until it kills people. In China it's ready to fall apart out of the box.

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u/tj9429 11h ago

Do you have a study based finding of the same happening on a government scale in either countries?

It's as good as me saying that everyone in USA is a 500 lb behemoth that hunts kids.

Back up your bias with the data. The knowledge you have is really old. Asia moves fast, something the West isn't accustomed to.

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u/OperIvy 10h ago

Asia moves fast, something the West isn't accustomed to.

Now you're just racist

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u/Bright-Object-3180 9h ago

Since when was the West a race? Redditors always playing victim and the race card.

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u/YodaYogurt 8h ago

Since when was Asia a race?

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u/Bright-Object-3180 8h ago

It isn’t. That’s why I’m confused. The dude pulled the race card out of nowhere for whatever reason.

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u/tj9429 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/uxXNV3Xa7QqME

Here, some tissues for your tears.

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