I think the best part of that is that she actually timestamped "Container homes" in the description... 6 seconds later "Reinventing windows". Her mention in the video got a laugh, the timestamp got me rolling.
Regarding trees on the inside. Trees require stresses typically from occasional wind. If not, they atrophy and can easily snap. This was discovered inside of the Bioshpere 2 project outside of Tucson. The different varieties of trees inside began to snap mid section without warning due to no wind to stress and strengthen the fibers. Medical doctors see the same thing with human bones not healing or becoming brittle.
Gehry, to me, personifies architectural excess. Reminded of an Oscar Wilde quote “Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern, one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.”
You didn't mention this, but also on the environmentally-friendly side of Glass buildings, they are hugely damaging to bird populations. We're in the migration time of year where I live, and so many birds are killed flying into these glass-clad buildings.
I love that building that melts cars around it during summer. Just great design overall. Functionality? Oh no it is not just a shelter, it is a weapon!
Fun fact: both of the buldings she brought up as examples were designed by the same architect, Rafael Vinoly.The guy either likes curves too much to learn from his mistakes or just enjoys burning things.
Belinda you are like life, killing 1 dream at a time😆😆, it's good to know the difference between reality and dreams, keep making these informative videos
I do think that tree-friendly architecture is pretty, even if there are engineering challenges. I expect that you you picked trees with "limited ambitions," you could keep them in check. Not every tree is designed to grow indefinitely.
Exactly. The trees in nursery are grown with 'designed' root-ball. There are no 'stressed' trees taken from the 'nature' and put in/on the building. And no, they will not óvergrow the planters. But constant maintenance and needed and yes there are engineering challenges. Also every tree in urban environment can be considered 'stressed'
@@KoftiPijama Yup. A lot of urban trees have issues because they just picked trees arbitrarily, "because they were pretty," without really thinking through the long term issues of using _those_ trees. We've learned a lot about managing trees in urban environments over the past decades, and can better plan for them now.
@@KoftiPijama Designer: This tree will die unless its roots are allowed to spread out! Bonsai master: So anyway I took this wild tree, pruned 75% of its roots and branches, and tied it all up with wires, it'll be fine.
I don't like the assumption that regular architecture isn't tree friendly, but this joke somehow is better at it lol. People destroy the natural world and then want to fake it, and instead of actually preserving something they pretend to care while novelty and aesthetics are the only things in their mind.
Ahh, the language of real estate agents. I've seen a few in my time: * "Charming" = crooked * "Cozy" = cramped * "Rustic" = leaky * "Exciting floorplan" = vastly impractical layout * "Well-kept" = hasn't been renovated for decades * "Full of possibilities" = badly needs urgent repairs * "Undisturbed" = far away from everything * "Conveniently located" = blasted by traffic noise * "Spectacular" = we really need to get this mess off our hands, because it's expensive as heck to maintain
I'm gonna build a doll house with a bonsai tree in it. I have no experience in either of those two things, but I've cheated while playing the sims. I'll keep you posted.
A lot of architects want to make a name for themselves by being original. Unfortunately all the practical architectural ideas have been done before, all thats left to be original is the impractical.
haha that was exactly my conclusion years back after actually discussing plans with an architect. I put it as "agrandizing themselves at someone else's expense'.
@@AlainPilon what are those "new materials" that architects are always talking about? Wood? Brick? Stone? Reinforced Concrete and glass walls are 100 years old.
@@goncalodias6402 composites, and all the new variations of glass and steel. Dont try to be a smart ass, the glass from 100 years go has nothing to so with gorilla glass and the other variety developed by Corning. Same for concrete and steel alloys. Even wood is evolving as we now have access to plywood panel with strength/weight ratio not accessible 10 years ago. And if you want to go full futuristic, what about carbon nanotubes? Graphene?
In summation for a tl;dr: *Shiplap:* Consider other options for your house, actual Shiplap walls are expensive and there's plenty of styles that do the same jobs. *Trees inside House:* Do you want bugs, termites, rotted wood and busted flooring because of growing roots under your house m8? *Vertical Forest buildings:* Lotta green for same problems. *Container Homes:* Tiny, crap materials, actually expensive since it has to have all the insulation of a house, will actually have much less space due to said insulation + electricity etc, drove up costs for actual containers which increased economic inflation since containers are integral to every industry and reducing the number of them on any market makes them more expensive due to increased scarcity *Reinventing Windows aka Extruding Windows:* There's a reason why windows are inside a concave windowsill. WATER. *Glass Scyscrapers:* Almost no insulation, consumes a crapton of air conditioning power, horrible maintenance costs, causes massive sunburns to anyone near it. Also sprayfoam insulation is great for any building.
Frank Ghery is what happens when you decide form is more important that function. You get a modern art piece that doesn't actually work very well as a building
Great stuff. One comment from someone in the energy efficient business: while I appreciate the benefit of spray foam in certain areas of a building, there are other less expensive and more eco-friendly ways to get a house to be just as tight AND well insulated. Perhaps a good topic for one of your videos.
@@Incandescentiron Mineral wool with a wind barrier on the external side and a vapour barrier on the internal side. Works like a charm if you've got a decent ventilation system.
If I recall correctly, (and I probably don't) the "fryscraper" 's architect had actually taken that into account, and had balconies all over the curved sides that would have completely mititigated the problem. The firm actually *building* it changed the plans part way though to remove all the balconies.
@@robertdelaney7033 He better have taken that into account considering he's the same guy who designed the Vdara in Las Vegas 5 years earlier. I was hoping she would bring it up at some point, how the same architect managed to build not one but two death rays.
Something I was thinking about with the vertical forest buildings is fire. If a lower level has a fire just imaging how quick it can ingulf the whole outside of the building making it impossible to escape! Eep! Scary!
Not really? Those planters with a high earth mass and live plants have a lot of water, it's not so easy to set on fire. But of course provisions need to be made to maintain some distance between planters.
@@SianaGearz you ever saw banana getting on fire? they have much more water than this trees! the water evaporates and then ou have a horrific expierience of fire.
@@SianaGearz So all the forest fires spreading like, I don't know, "wild fire" are impossible because of all the water in the soil and trees? They chose, on purpose, plants that would require the minimum amount of water to live, so as to cut back on irrigation expenses, while being able to survive the wind, height, and overall conditions. So, any tree you see there, is the dryest variant they could fit there.
@@JuanCLeal I always thought the primary fuel was the undergrowth not the trees themselves. Undergrowth may not be the correct word. I mean all the leaves falling from the trees combining with dead branches and various dead material accumulates until it doesn't matter how much water is in the trees as there is more then enough fuel underneath to burn.
I love it when a well educated professional takes my head in clouds ass and just DUNKS on my future dreams I need more realistic portrayals of this world and your delivery is PEAK “there also gonna fix climate change somehow” SASS
When I want to design something, I ask myself how people used to do it, which will often tell me why it was or is done a certain way. If I can come up with a different way to address the same issues, I consider it. I usually find that the way things were done a few hundred years ago are usually perceived as genius innovations if reintroduced. So much of history is open source experimentation, and to overlook it leads to... Death rays and giant falling spikes, apparently.
Would love to see thoughts on “earth ships”. A bit of an older trend, but many of them look really compelling. Especially when the roof overhang is designed to block the sun in summer and let it in in winter while having organic forms. Seems to be wise home building, but I am not the one to make that judgement!
It depends on where they are built, but they really do make great desert homes, it seems. Especially if they have a rainwater collection system, and then are growing food o top of that. I know some people have built them in places a bit too cold to support them (at least, to support them in the exact same way they are built in New Mexico), but still, it's a pretty great concept, I'd like to hear what she thinks as well.
It depends on where they are built, but they really do make great desert homes, it seems. Especially if they have a rainwater collection system, and then are growing food o top of that. I know some people have built them in places a bit too cold to support them (at least, to support them in the exact same way they are built in New Mexico), but still, it's a pretty great concept, I'd like to hear what she thinks as well.
I did a thermal analysis of an uninsulated ship's compartment as an exercise when I was in school. The compartment was situated next to a refrigerated compartment, and a hot engineering space. It also had a one square foot window on the external wall. There was more heat exchanged through that one square foot of glass than either bulkhead. Talk about driving the point home: I did that exercise over 30 years ago, and it's still one of my go to stories.
In Finland the building code for residential homes stipulates triple pane windows. Sometimes quadruple pane windows are used. As a result our houses are more energy efficient than houses in the UK or the US, even though we have much colder winters than London or NYC. We don't have to abandon glass to be energy-efficient. We just have to not suck at our applications.
@@mathewcalaway7684 It's not overbuilding if it significantly reduces wasted heat or cooling. And I can assure you double pane windows in the UK and colder parts of the US are horrible at preventing energy losses.
As a general rule of thumb, we say that one square metre of window lets through the same amount of heat as ten square metres of wall. Those are well-insulated windows, mind.
Oh, I just love your segment on the structural pitfalls Frank Gerry's designs. Then you went into London's infamous "Fry Scraper" and that was just too funny. Thanks for another very informative segment.
This is a great video, and a breath of fresh air. Another issue with glass skyscrapers I wanted to mention (and sorry if this has been brought up before)--window strikes are the second leading cause of bird deaths (after predation by domestic cats). This is a huge issue in conservation, so it seems like reducing glass surfaces in cities is just good for the environment all around.
they look cute at night and give a great view to the lucky ones sitting near them, but the tradeoff isn't good apparently, not even for the owner (heating/cooling costs)
I'm so impressed by the shiplap talk and how you should and should not use it! I did not know that people use faux shiplap thereby causing a problem if not installed properly. This channel is so impressive!
Thanks for another video calling for solid engineering in building design. Isn't it ironic that that the infamous, rickety Stata Center is located at MIT, home of some of the brightest mathematical minds on the planet? When Gehry was sued over it, he issued some mutterings about the structure's 'connective tissue'. The implication, I'm guessing here, was that the contractor failed to make the joints tight or something. No admission that the fault was designing a building that resembled a pile of packing cases about to fall over. Architecture is an adaptive art. It still must suit human needs and provide reliable shelter at sensible cost. One cannot debate taste, but the modern deconstructionism-for-its-own-sake, doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Wonderfully said! Yes, Gehry blamed it on value engineering. I visited it in 2017 and it was very unimpressive. It's a good example of what happens when function follows form.
Oh yeah. That's why I don't walk on the sidewalks in my neighborhood. The trees are all mature and have absolutely uprooted the sidewalks. It's just not safe to walk on when you're unsteady on your feet, using a walker, or in a wheelchair. It's much safer to walk in the street (ofc it's also a quiet neighborhood and there's no through traffic). Ofc there's also several sidewalks that mysteriously disappear for one property only to reappear once you get to the next property line - this is the only town I've ever seen that in. There's also the fact that the sidewalk is below the lawns in my neighborhood, so when the snow melts on the lawns, it pools on the sidewalk and then freezes into ice overnight. It doesn't matter how diligent the homeowners/landlords are (and most aren't all that diligent), there's always ice on the sidewalks.
Belinda NO, you're breaking my heart!! Lol my pintrest is useless now lol 😆 but seriously please make a series of this, I loved it and I've learned a lot. I'm going to have a different outlook at buildings around me now. 😄
I know that you have a very factual attitude, which is traditionally not seen as entertaining... but your channel is fascinating. I'm an engineer and your channel, I find is filled with rational arguments, well supported opinions, and just way too much of my time spent.
We noticed in our apartment that is mostly concrete and built in the late 1960s that when we did the renovation for us to have air conditioning the rooms stay cool shockingly well. We have I think triple pane windows to keep it warm in the winter (with it easily getting down below minus 20 Celsius and often even more than that) but the whole building is amazing at maintaining a steady temperature year round. If it wasn't for climate change we probably wouldn't have even needed the air conditioning since even 10 years ago just a floor fan and open window was often enough to deal with the hot summer days. But now we had over 30 degrees Celsius maintained for I think it was close to a month this summer and it would not have been possible to comfortably live here without it.
After quitting after 1 year studying civil enginerring, this channel is the only point of contact with the building sector I can bear. Keep the content coming.
I taught at an elementary school that had floor-to-ceiling windows in the cafeteria. We would frequently see dead birds on the sidewalk as the kids sat down to eat.
We had a room outside that was consistent of just glass doors. What we did is putting stickers on the glass and it actually helped. Birds sometimes still flew against the glass but like once a year
What a wonderful breath of fresh thought! I live in a rapidly developing (skyscrapers being built all around me) metropolitan area. It is clear that those who are closely connected to the levers of commercial building finance waste exorbitant amounts of money, energy, and talent to produce the most self-serving and visually and functionally obtrusive monstrosities and plant them into the middle of communities of real people with real needs.
The voice of logic! Thank you. The case of the "reinvented" Frank Gehry windows is typical of what has been happening in architecture and design for a very long time now: people want to do something new for the sake of it. In my view, it all started with the early modernists: they believed we'd been doing everything wrong for 5000 years, and somehow they were the messiahs that would show us how to do it right. But some things have persisted for a reason, and the reason is they work.
I love your videos, watching them is somehow making me fall in love with architecture even though many of the videos I’ve watched have been critiqués. I would love to see your own blueprint of a ecofriendly house, building , ect. , what material you would use , why you would use it, and your own twist in matching aesthetic with practicality.
I ABSOLUTELY love your content, madam. Seriously, stumbled on your shipping container video by chance and am now a subscriber. I love seeing actual professionals debunk silly hype and stupid trends.
I love the look of buildings that *scream* gentrification getting taken over/back by nature, but those skyscrapers with different plants feel like the opposite. Not only are you placing something that isn’t very good for its surroundings, but you’re taking nature from its home, only for it to probably die in a few months at most.
those New Orleans photos took me back. The neighborhood I lived in had massive oak trees in all the area between the sidewalk and the street, but man they did exactly what you listed. Really nice for coverage, but terrible for the sidewalks. Was nice in the winter when we wrapped the trees in lights though.
Love the part about the "Fry-Scraper" burning cars with its Death Ray. Didn't anyone in the planning stage from designers to city planners take any of the light reflections into consideration? I bet the lawyers and victims had a field day with settlements. Love the channel and your presentation methods and standards are top notch. Please keep producing more and thanks for what you do.
You are probably the first person I heard talking about trees in terms of ethics, and with consideration for their stress ad health - I feel so seen, thank you so much! I hope this approach is/becomes part of educational programs in architecture 🌱
Please just select the variety of tree that grows into the right size and has roots that are compatible. You can also put faster growing trees in to fill things out faster, which you will remove as your slower long-term trees grow up.
Ugh. If you're going to have a tree indoors, it should be a smaller species and in a pot. Additionally, you should very carefully prune and pollinate it yourself (assuming you want it to bear fruit/produce seeds). I'm not a gardening expert and I know that ppl do have fruit trees in pots that they keep indoors. It's also worth keeping in mind that tending to an indoor tree will require quite a bit of tending. Additionally, if you have a potted tree that you put on a balcony or porch in the summer and bring indoors in the winter (especially if you live in a climate where it gets really cold in the winter), keep in mind that you're likely going to be bringing insects indoors as well.
Small biology nitpick from the tree section: Trees breath carbon dioxide not oxygen which they get from the ambient air through small openings usually in the leaves. A couple other issues I think that designers might not consider as it isn't common knowledge outside of biology. Many deciduous tress, like the ones in many photos, rely on the tips of their roots for water, not the base of the tree. If you've ever sheltered under a tree during a rainstorm, you might notice that there is less rain near the trunk of the tree and more rain dripping on the edge. Many trees use this to their advantage as the tips of the roots will match the circumference of the canopy to maximize water. By surrounding the tree with a covered surface you limit the amount of water the tree can receive, as simply watering the base of the trunk is not an effective way to provide the necessary hydration to the tree. This is why many cities have issues with trees that die as they grow older and loose the ability to collect rainwater. I would assume the large trees in New Orleans that you featured are a result of the notoriously moist soil that stays hydrated from underground. Another issue that you briefly touched on with hi-rises is the removal of trees from their native environment to a whole new one. There is a hidden issue that we often miss when moving plants to a new environment and that is fungi. Most terrestrial plants either require or are supported by a complex relationship with a certain group underground fungi. These fungi form a mutualistic relationship with the plants that we are only recently beginning to see the complexity of. Trees are able to share information (like disease immunity and offspring health) between each other using the fungi as an intermediary. They are also able to share nutrients in an emergency with nearby tress. By confining them to small limited planters we are removing their ability to interact with other plants and trees which can (but not always) damage the health of the organism and increase the chance that you will lose most or all of your trees to an insect or disease infestation.
Well said!! Do you think there is any way to design a house or even an urban setting with more trees?? I can only think of having a courtyard for a house, and just simply having parks for a city. But I am neither a biologist or an architect.
@@elijahclaude3413 The three big concepts to keep in mind that would improve these designs are: diversity, spread, and native species. By diversity I mean that having any space that features the inclusion of living things will benefit from having many different species present. Having a street that is lined with elm trees for example, may looks nice but a single outbreak of something like the historically devastating dutch elm disease, can result in the complete loss of the project. Far better to plant multiple different trees not just because it's not putting your eggs in one basket but because resistant trees can act as a buffer for other species further away. With spread, I mean how close to one another are these trees/plants. If a tree is alone surrounded by miles of asphalt and pavement then the necessary pollinators and symbiotic fungi won't be able to travel to your location. I realize this is a urban planning rather than individual project issue, but surviving as a small island of green is going to be that much harder. Last I would say to stick with native species. Trees and plants that grow wild nearby and in similar soil/light conditions are not only likely to do well, but are more likely to share pollinators and fungal connections.
@@lillithcollins5192 This is some great info! Thank you very much!! I hope the growing interest in solarpunk will keep things like this in mind to ensure the new wave of 'green' living doesn't become divorced from building actually healthy ecosystems and such.
Waterproofing is the most basic building requirement. If the architect and builder can't do that then they should be fired and never work in construction again.
I read that high-rise buildings use glass primarily because glass is lighter than concrete and therefore requires less total material to enable a building to be that tall. While other materials, such as honeycomb fiberglass panels, come to mind, the problem with most of those is that you can cut through them with a hand saw.
Interested in your take on building with bamboo and rammed earth rather than rebar and cement. It's defined differently depending on the region but I'm referring to a damp mixture of ash, clay, sand, and crushed stone.
itzKal my limited experience with rammed earth is pretty negative and I was speaking to a former rammed earth builder the other day and he added a few more. For monolithic mass that ticks a lot more boxes and then some, have a look at hempcrete.
My experiences with rammed earth have deliberately avoided organic materials (stuff that hasn't completely decomposed) specifically to promote longevity. The finished results (that I've seen!) seem to be outrageously resistant to typical sources of structural damage.
I LOVE bead board. Shiplap was one of those design features designers tried to SAVE, when they found them in a renovated building. Trying to mimic that look, is just a fad. It's going to date your home, and in a few years you'll see designers going, "Ugh, we need to remove this dated shiplap!" I love the idea of trees in buildings, but everything you said is true. It might be better to use shrubs, and plants with smaller root systems and needs. The trees integrated in the building are beautiful, but again, smaller plants would be a better choice. One benefit I see, is that it might encourage people to build UP, rather than continue to sprawl in low, buildings. Going up is a better use of space, and if they can incorporate more amenities near residences, it could save on driving/transportation. I'm wondering if it's feasible to have dwarf fruit trees in these designs, so it might help with food production. Or would falling fruit be a danger? The protruding windows make me want to line the box with plants. If this isn't the plan, then why bother? The glass skyscrapers sound like a bad idea. I never thought about it. Seems that's going to be a challenge going forward.
On the trees drying up the soil, in Australia construction is done on sand, since when sand gets wet or dry it doesn't drastically change the surface beneath the foundation
I design optics. If the designers stuck to glass buildings with convex surfaces rather than concave, it would eliminate the possibility of creating "death rays" because the reflected rays would be diverging instead of converging. But, it would make the building look more bulbous, perhaps pear-shaped. A flat plane is also a diverging refecting surface. That's why we don't see these problems with flat sided glass buildings. It's possible they can increase the heat load on an adjacent building, but not to a scalding degree.
Having a bulbous glass facade could possibly create a lensing effect that would create a focus of the sunlight INSIDE the building if its an open interior design. Like not leaving your reading glasses next to a window, it's probably a potential fire hazard.
@@johnlee7164 I like your reasoning here, but as long as the panes of glass are uniform thickness, the rays pass through parallel to their original direction and will not concentrate the light. A solid glass window would have to be curved on one side and flat on the other for this to happen. Alternatively, if we built the structure with a flat transparent wall on the inside and then fill the gap between the windows and the transparent wall with water, this would indeed happen. Spherical glass water vases were popular in the Victorian age. Placed in front of a sunlight window, they did set tables on fire!
The house I grew up in had a tree in the floor, though most of the problems weren't really applicable. It was a small tree, with its planting area edged by the terrazzo floors, and the house sat on anthracite clay, not on soil. We just needed to water the tree every so often. Oh, and the house was built back in the 1960s. Possibly the 1950s, I don't know which.
It's a parabolic mirror. Seeing that swimming pool location in that vegas hotel made me wince in empathic pain for those holiday goers. Crushed my shipping container swimming pool dream, I'm loving all of these videos btw.
It seems that Archimedes' mirror death ray was debunked a bit TOO well. People forgot that the problem was the logistics of the thing, not the principle...
The main counterpoint which comes to mind, is that in the sphere of large scale architecture which contributes to highly visible public spaces and CBDs, aesthetically interesting buildings have a value which transcends their practicality and tendency to leak, incinerate cars, drop icicles on the unwary, or waste electricity. We don't want cities which look like Moscovite apartment buildings... That said, it would be good for the architects / builders to work out how to stop water ingress! Australia's nominally most important building is Parliament House, in Canberra. I was bemused to see, on my only visit there, a number of buckets collecting water leaks in the main entry foyer! And being really surprised that either could not, or had not, been corrected.
Worth saying that there are special built modular houses that is about the same size and form as containers. But they are slightly wider (about 40cm) and have high efficiency insulation built into them. They are built specifically to be well insulated and stack able.
That last sckyscraper is great. The architect was going for an office building and made a solar powerplant. I think they should embrace the mistake instead of covering it up.
A mall in my country had to build around a tree because the city didn't let them cut it down. But they built a large circular area around it so it would have space to exist. Also for trees inside houses and balconies - do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.
Oodi central library in Helsinki has these windows the size of a wall. When I was writing there in the winter, on a long desk where they have places for people to work & study, and as it happens the desk is right by the window, everyone was grabbing their coats from the coathanger. It was so cold that working in that temperature is impossible without extra clothing, because you start to shiver. And btw we normally wear sweaters and such in the winter, I personally favor wool, but yet it was too cold without a coat. Otherwise I really like the space on the top floor, there's sort of a noisy end with the café and the kids area, and a quiet end with places for reading, work and study. I'm 100% with you on the need for smaller windows though. I hate how they still build these huge ones in new apartments. They also make placing furniture much more difficult, as the rooms are small, and if you have (closed) shelves you're out of luck. Also we've had these horrible heat waves even in Finland, so we'd really need sustainable solutions.
You do a great job of highlighting the many compromises of construction, and how traditional design often becomes tradition because it is what actually works. I feel like the vertical forests would be a huge fire hazard if the conditions get just wrong. A fire starting at a low level would spread to the upper levels and engulf the entire side of the building in under a minute on a warm day. A forest fire that spreads vertically would do so exponentially faster than anything ever seen in a horizontal plantation.
One fun fact is that the same architect designed the walkie-talkie building and the vdara building. His name is Raphael Vinoly and he's had a comically disastrous architectural career
Yes Belinda, even during pandemic in India, every next day my feed was filled by articles about some ex-IT employee growing a forest on their terrace, that doesn't make much sense to me.
The glassed skyscraper also causes many birds to die since they can't see it there and hit it constantly or get disoriented due to the mirored effect it has
Aww I also loved shiplap but we went with beadboard and wainscot in a bathroom and bedroom, glad I learned this before we tried boards all over the wall.
A few years ago, someone decided to make a park on top of a store. It collapsed while they were making the park and killed 50 people due to pre-existing problems... basically, I'm not that enthused about buildings with a bunch of trees
I would argue on glass because a lot of glass skyscrapers have no window behind but rather, isolation and glass itself has a privacy screen that reflects the heat as well
There aren't enough words in the English language to describe how much I hate glass skyscrapers. Every time I walk past one I always see birds lying dead on the ground with their necks broken. For this reason I especially hate glass bridges/walkways.
I moved into a new multiple magazine award winning corporate HQ building in 1980. The hot water solar system never worked. Cubicles were a new thing but the company to save money, went with used 25 year old large desks. Each cubicle had 1 duplex electrical outlet and shared a 70w HPS pendant light with an adjoining cube. The floors were cantilevered ✅ to allow suns rays in windows in winter by were shaded in the summertime. This feature is about the only feature that still exists.
Regarding window, I was working in a neigbourhood calle Puerto Madero in Argentina in 2011, it's a place filled with luxury buildings, on october 2011 there were stronger than usal winds and a few windows gave and broken glass fell on the streets and cars below. Luckily no one was hurt
You're so smart and well spoken. I would love to have you as a dinner guest! I just came upon your channel and am hooked! Great content and not afraid to question current trends in favor or true sustainable environmentally friendlier options in the building industry. Keep up the great content!
With glass skyscrapers, all I can think about is being in New York City trying to visit the new One World Trade Center. A huge pane of glass had fallen down on to the sidewalk and the area was completely surrounded by worried police/people who had to be thinking about a repeat of the attacks. It is probably unlikely for glass panes to fall off these buildings, but still has to be a risk.
Wood as in planks can have a lot of movement with varying amounts of moisture in the air as the fibers swells. This happens only in the perpendicular direction compared to the fibers in the wood, the length of the fibers is almost not affected at all by changes in moisture. Now combine this knowledge with the fact that glued wood joints along the wood fibers is stronger than the wood itself. And you will realize that plywood is actually remarkably stable when it comes to wood movements, as every ply is glued to two other ply with the wood fibers perpendicular and hence is effectively locked in place.
Rich people used to build Orangeries in England. They are a thing of the past for a good reason! 200 years later people somehow forget it doesn't work.
I found your channel by way of sheer serendipity, and now I'm addicted. You're amazing!!! Can you do a video on wood frame highrises...they are being built in Vancouver, including on the campus of UBC (the University of British Columbia). Cheers 🤓
lol reminds me of my old office building that had floor to ceiling glass panes and had to have the top 2 or 3 feet reflective black papered because of too much sunlight and heat getting in close to the glass.
