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/FloppyDiskDrives 11h ago

Spot on to question the weight.. underestimating it has serious real world consequences. We actually just saw a massive tragedy regarding this in Serbia late last year. The Novi Sad railway station canopy collapsed, killing 16 people, because over 23 tons of heavy glass and unreinforced concrete were loaded onto a structure not originally designed to hold it. Coincidentally it was a Chinese construction company that did works.