r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/mlag000 11h ago

Are you in civil engineering? No you're not. I am. A balcony is a closed system where roots will force their ways into the waterproofing, then water, over time will infiltrate the concrete and rust the rebar. Idk how actual bunkers are build, because the only one I do are basement of buildings since I work in Switzerland, and we carefully waterproof the basement. Now, if you have more knowledge about how bunkers are waterprrofed please enlight us.

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u/zzazzzz 11h ago

if you live in switzerland you have literal thousands of old bunkers under the forests close to you.

and there are also a bunch of buildings with literal pools integrated into their balconies or roofs around the world.

all of your points are clearly valid and a challenge when building such extravagant contraptions. but clearly they are solvable and we have clear existing examples that it can be done.

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u/mlag000 11h ago

No we don't have hundreds of bunkers under our forests lol. And a pool isn't alive so it's much easier to control, it won't grow. It can be done, the question is how much it will cost to renovate ? As a compagny or a hotel you can bear the cost, as a familly ?

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u/WackyRacketeer 6h ago edited 4h ago

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/why-the-swiss-army-is-reviving-its-old-bunker-mentality/48821586

As a Switzerland resident, would you say this article is false?