Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
How the fuck are you meant to use that powerpoint?
How the fuck are you meant to clean all the dirt and leaf litter and shit out of the low gap between the top part and the bottom part?
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
edited March 2016
greenery emerges through jean nouvel's pixelated 'white walls' tower in cyprus
greenery emerges through jean nouvel’s pixelated ‘white walls’ tower in cyprus
design architect: ateliers jean nouvel; local collaborating architects: takis sophocleous architects
photos by yiorgis yerolymbos, courtesy of nice day developments
in the cypriot capital of nicosia, french architect jean nouvel has designed a mixed-use tower named ‘white walls’ that climbs to a total height of 67 meters. standing as a new landmark, the structure’s verticality serves as a visual counterpoint to the horizontality of the surrounding medieval walls, and the moat that encloses the old part of the city. developed in collaboration with local firm takis sophocleous architects, the building houses ten floors of residential apartments, six levels of office space, and a two-storey retail area.
If you’re the sort to dream of utopian megablocks in elaborate, irregular shapes with crops and wind turbines on the roof and trees all around, you might be interested in Block’hood [official site]. If you’re me, I might mean. I’m interested in Block’hood. It’s a sim about building and managing small neighbourhoods, balancing commerce, energy, food, pollution, waste, and so on in an urban ecosystem. It looks somewhere between SimCity and SimTower, with maybe a touch of The Sims. And it looks pretty. And it has launched on Steam Early Access today.
My parents live in part of a over-100 year old house, whole place is absolutely gorgeous but with the last landlord's haphazard attitude towards maintenance I worry about them a bit every time there's a big storm.
How the fuck are you meant to use that powerpoint?
How the fuck are you meant to clean all the dirt and leaf litter and shit out of the low gap between the top part and the bottom part?
Those things get in the way of the *~concept~*.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
It's okay, I now realise that the bottom part is the wall around that inner courtyard, it's not like there's a large hard to access flat roof there like I first thought.
That powerpoint is still unforgivable though. This is basic shit you should learn in first year of architecting school.
It's okay, I now realise that the bottom part is the wall around that inner courtyard, it's not like there's a large hard to access flat roof there like I first thought.
That powerpoint is still unforgivable though. This is basic shit you should learn in first year of architecting school.
Stuff like that often happens just because over the the course of the project neither engineer or architect notice that at one point for whatever reason something in the drawings slipped and I guarantee no one on the building site is going to question stuff like that.
Hilariously, at least in my school, practical details aren't taught/implemented fully until 3rd year which is why things are so ~conceptual~ etc for so long.
It's okay, I now realise that the bottom part is the wall around that inner courtyard, it's not like there's a large hard to access flat roof there like I first thought.
That powerpoint is still unforgivable though. This is basic shit you should learn in first year of architecting school.
Stuff like that often happens just because over the the course of the project neither engineer or architect notice that at one point for whatever reason something in the drawings slipped and I guarantee no one on the building site is going to question stuff like that.
Or a dumb planer.
Yep. It's why some of the famous architect's stuff drives my Dad nuts (very much a form follows function guy with an eye towards usability).
SC Johnson building by Frank Lloyd Wright - ceiling leaked like a sieve
90% of Gehry's stuff - hugely wasted space and weird plane collisions for no reason.
Funny thing about form follows function is that today its mostly interpreted as "no ornaments at all" and as justification for boring design when Sullivan used it in this context:
„'Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change.“
Builders back then couldn't use CAD to value -engineer the construction down to the last penny so it is seriously over built, which is nice.
Most (all?) of the wood used in construction is old-growth so it denser and more stable.
The lumber is all true-dimension.
The sheathing is all 1x6 lumber (as opposed to OSB or plywood) so it is less susceptible to water damage and will burn through slower in the event of a fire, thus slowing the spread.
It is all held together with mechanical fasteners (as opposed to construction adhesive) which means parts can be taken off and repaired and/or replaced.
Real stone foundations are more aesthetically pleasing (to me at least) than concrete or stone veneer
That said, it's still a balloon-framed house on a field stone foundation so I don't have a single surface that is either plum or level which is less-than-ideal.
If I had to have a new home and could afford it, it would be a nice timber-framed chateau using as many old school construction techniques and materials as feasible.
Those old house foundations are so overkill. We dug one up on an archaeological dig I was on. Must have been nearly 2 feet wide of rocks mortared together.
I write you a story
But it loses its thread
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
My house has to be about 90 years old at this point, although there have been several extensive renovations. It has it's pros and cons.
At least it's a proper house, though. The 100-year-old flat above a shop in the city was godawful. Nothing was square or straight; it relied on structural walls of buildings that had been pulled down 60 years ago; it had negligible insulation for a location adjacent to the highway, across from one of the more prominent music clubs and on the walk between the pubs and the strip clubs. Character and location, though. Living there was never dull.
I grew up in a mixed-style Victorian house that's around 130 years old now (I forget exactly). It doesn't really have level floors. What it does have is brick walls, enormous windows (seriously, I am ruined for "modern" windows), wiring that's actually old enough to not be shit (it's essentially suspended in midair between layers, passing through joists via short ceramic tubes), and high ceilings.
I fully expect it to be there in another 50 years, as long as it's reasonably well maintained.
Something that struck me growing up about newer homes - by which I mean anything from 5 to 30 years old at the time - is that there's a weird stuffiness to them, like the air never moves. Our house isn't particularly drafty, but it's designed with air circulation in mind. Newer homes - particularly suburban homes - feel like sealed bunkers to me, especially with their relative lack of natural light.
edit: it's not historically preserved or anything; it went through at least one major remodel before my parents bought it.
Dogg there are modern building techniques that can be used to build a building designed and engineered to last for hundreds of years.
Buildings, on average (and by average I mean the vast overarching majority), are designed for 30 years.
Some are designed for 50 years.
Very rarely buildings are designed for 100 years. Really they just happen to leave some up for too long.
Well yeah, but you could easily design and engineer a building to last for hundreds of years.
Well maybe, but you'd go back to using majority traditional methods as you won't be able to get concrete to perform that well and glue laminates probably wouldn't last that long either.
man i just cant get into the look of concrete walls and stuff in houses. that is all i see everyday at work. also, as brolo highlighted a few pages and weeks back, southern ontario / greater toronto area just has so many of those concrete buildings from the 80s (70s?) that ruined it for me.
also that concrete house on his page looks like something someone made in the fallout 4 settlement builder. you can tell by all the gaps. protip: use no-clip mode and you can place items inside the collision areas of other items.
MayabirdPecking at the keyboardRegistered Userregular
I was inspired by this to put crocuses in my lawn where I live. It of course does not look nearly this good but the first ones are popping up and blooming now, so I'm happy.
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How the fuck are you meant to use that powerpoint?
How the fuck are you meant to clean all the dirt and leaf litter and shit out of the low gap between the top part and the bottom part?
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/jean-nouvel-pixelated-white-walls-tower-nicosia-cyprus-03-09-2016/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/03/10/blockhood-building-game-steam-early-access/
Those things get in the way of the *~concept~*.
That powerpoint is still unforgivable though. This is basic shit you should learn in first year of architecting school.
Stuff like that often happens just because over the the course of the project neither engineer or architect notice that at one point for whatever reason something in the drawings slipped and I guarantee no one on the building site is going to question stuff like that.
Or a dumb planer.
Yep. It's why some of the famous architect's stuff drives my Dad nuts (very much a form follows function guy with an eye towards usability).
SC Johnson building by Frank Lloyd Wright - ceiling leaked like a sieve
90% of Gehry's stuff - hugely wasted space and weird plane collisions for no reason.
„'Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change.“
Those old house foundations are so overkill. We dug one up on an archaeological dig I was on. Must have been nearly 2 feet wide of rocks mortared together.
But it loses its thread
At least it's a proper house, though. The 100-year-old flat above a shop in the city was godawful. Nothing was square or straight; it relied on structural walls of buildings that had been pulled down 60 years ago; it had negligible insulation for a location adjacent to the highway, across from one of the more prominent music clubs and on the walk between the pubs and the strip clubs. Character and location, though. Living there was never dull.
I fully expect it to be there in another 50 years, as long as it's reasonably well maintained.
Something that struck me growing up about newer homes - by which I mean anything from 5 to 30 years old at the time - is that there's a weird stuffiness to them, like the air never moves. Our house isn't particularly drafty, but it's designed with air circulation in mind. Newer homes - particularly suburban homes - feel like sealed bunkers to me, especially with their relative lack of natural light.
edit: it's not historically preserved or anything; it went through at least one major remodel before my parents bought it.
Ppl should open windows in good weather, though.
I've always wanted to dress up Victorian style for wild shenanigans.
Well maybe, but you'd go back to using majority traditional methods as you won't be able to get concrete to perform that well and glue laminates probably wouldn't last that long either.
Satans..... hints.....
as soon as i have enough money to buy it from whoever owns it now, sure!
also that concrete house on his page looks like something someone made in the fallout 4 settlement builder. you can tell by all the gaps. protip: use no-clip mode and you can place items inside the collision areas of other items.
or like a super fancy gazebo for a wizard who loves towers
I feel like a hole in the roof would lead to hilarious consequences
I have just invested a lot of money into the development of a curved squeegee.
I like the flooring.
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/autoban-architects-kilimanjaro-restaurant-bar-istanbul-03-12-2016/
Healing Waters by Fluidity Design.
Let me know if those images are too big!
Looks cool though.
I'm doing one of those right now!
Child me would have loved to build a lego city using that thing.
But with a laser cutter, right? My school didn't have one of those. Lots of time was spent cutting grey board or finn board.
Yes! Did a rough one in greyboard and clay a few weeks ago and now moved onto the method that is much less time consuming.
I was inspired by this to put crocuses in my lawn where I live. It of course does not look nearly this good but the first ones are popping up and blooming now, so I'm happy.
I do love hydrangeas.