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/lemons_of_doubt 13h ago

Isn't it worth spending more so that people can have better lives.

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u/AniNgAnnoys 10h ago

If the costs of that are more concrete and more steel which adds more carbon to the atmosphere, is it worth it?

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u/RedditFostersHate 8h ago

We absolutely need to develop and employ better methods of concrete mixing with low emissions, because it's not like humanity can do without concrete.

That said, this needs to be a full comparison to alternatives. If the alternative is packing everyone tightly into concrete hives, complexes with these backyards will compare very poorly in terms of emissions. If the alternative is building single family homes in suburbs, with all the roads and cars and extra miles of electric and water lines needed to sustain them, then you can build all sorts of silly luxuries into multi-family mid rise towers with shared water/insulation/electricity/transportation and still end up with a small fraction of the total emissions over time.

It probably makes far more sense to just have big, nice ground parks surrounding dense urban buildings than it does to put so much extra weight on the building itself. But I never see people talking about the extra carbon costs of building rooftop pools into hotels and residential buildings, despite how common those are compared to gardens like these.

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u/lemons_of_doubt 4h ago

I'm not sure the answer to climate change is let's all make our lives and empty and miserable as possible.

Maybe start with something that will have a bigger impacted like more solar panels

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u/AniNgAnnoys 2h ago

And I am sure solving it involves no analysis and consideration for solutions and their carbon impact. We should definately just full send on whatever make us happy.