It's more than that, If you live on top of the pyramid, you can basically see and monitor every building below. That's what truly the TOP OF THE PYRAMID means.
i bet you could get into any of your neighbors yards if you wanted to right now...the same thing that stops you from doing that would hopefully be the same thing that is stopping the person at the top from going into other balconies; respect, and because it's illegal.
Would love to see a Floor plan of this building. I want to see how the Ground floor differs from the Top floor apartments. Top floor means Smaller apartments, ground floor means either A LOT of wasted space (or communal facilities) or some apartments don't get their own Balcony since they're inside the central Base of the pyramid.
It's interesting how China experiments with almost everything & even manages do very well with some. The infrastructure it builds just surprises --- from time taken to complete to the design & the research that goes into these. The Tibetan railway is one such successful venture
You are right, They can easily install a ventilation vent. Because modern houses or old house has a airconditioner installed if they wanted to. Maybe the rent is too high or for the same price you could get a bigger appartement in a standard building.
When there’s no actual vent hoods, homes/apartments usually have those useless microwave range hoods. Makes the house smokey and sets off alarms when cooking any high-smoke-point food; which is 50% of stir fry -_-“. It’s up to the apartments to install real vent hoods, but it’s expensive.
@@yuut01234 video says they can’t! Not me. I know they can. It will cost money but it can be done. You can have forced ventilation going horizontally to the exterior of the building on a side or in a spot with no intake vents or opening windows.
Thats what I was thinking. There cannot be any interior apartments otherwise they wouldn't even have windows. This whole project might look nice but there a re a bunch of stuff that will simply not work
The black hole in the middle though, Presumably that means there are rooms towards the bottom in the middle that get no access to sunlight. Not healthy
@@98TrueRocker98 He was referring to the bottom apartments. If the bottom apartments had units that extend all the way to the sunlight, then that would be ok. But we know that that is not the case here.
@@98TrueRocker98 are you sure? If that was a standard room it def wouldn't reach both sides from inner square to the outside of the hotel. otherwise that's a huge apartment.
@Tejas Misra the lowest where no lights is the cheapest but safest because you could get out right away, the top would be expensive but risky incase of emergency. Not a win-win for me
"Overrun" by mosquitoes? That's not a forest problem, it's a standing water problem. People complaining about nothing. Put some lemon candles on the balcony and the mosquitoes will be gone in a minute.
In China, it's not that rare to see 7-9-story buildings to be made without elevators. My cousins (born in the mid-90's) grew up living on the 7th floor and there was never an elevator. To be fair, these buildings are a lot taller than that, but my point stands. I don't think anyone would think twice before taking the stairs.
I like the way the pyramids are facing inwards, but instead of a bit of concrete in the middle you really need a decent sized central square garden in the middle with tall trees to create more privacy and greenery for the apartment dwellers to look at.
that would require a much shorter building so the plants could get natural light, either that or reflectors and sun tunnels. you can see in the overheard how dark the center is.
China already has the most famous structure in the world -- the Great Wall. Now, they are going to claim the second most famous one as well -- the Pyramids!
Whatever shape apartment buildings come in, after living in them for years and years when I was in university and single, I sure am grateful for a house now with lots of space around for my kids to play and to grow vegetables, have shrubs, flowers and trees around us.
It's called saving money in the middle of the most difficult time since the great depression, also if you live by yourself or with a significant other instead of having 5 kids, an apartment here in the U.S would be considered spacious to people in China, who have 5 times the population we do.
Yes but if everyone lived like that then you'd have to chop down all the forests, flatten every mountain, and start building Venice-like cities out over the sea everywhere. I live in a house but I'd love to live in an apartment with a short commute to work if that apartment was spacious and sound-proofed. Unfortunately that seems to be a bridge too far for architects and designers and builders right now.
@@cliffa2901 It's an addictional choice those people have. I have seen plenty of cases where people have to jump down from window or high roof of a building at a fire accidents.
Imagine being a resident and ends up going to the wrong pyramid, wrong floor, wrong section, and wrong apartment. Edit: There's a chance Imma delete this comment cause it's getting too much attention- Edit 2: Look I am not judging your opinion but my notification keeps flooding with "Oh your a kid" "Numbers on the apartments exist" and "Your mom noticed something". It's been 4 days, this needs to stop getting so much frikin replies- So would you please kindly stop flooding my notifications? Thx ~From me UwU
Clearly not everyone gets their own "spacious balcony", the structures are not organized in that way, unless you're trying to tell me the lower floor apartments run the full length of the building. I highly doubt that.
There's also a hole going right down the centre so there aren't uildings going all the way across and if they were they may be servings facilities like gyms or laundromat that don't necessarily need windows? Who knows
In City Hunter, Jackie Chan jumped from one level to another on a cruise ship while the bad guys were shooting at him. It was just like these balconies
@@Rloveslife haven't those bin found buried. The demons fallen angels taught humans howto do everything swords etc magic. Watch Enoch missing book from Bible
If I remember correctly they weren't built for the dead as well. They were built for the living to ease the Process from the world of the living to the world of the dead.
Pyramid isn't meant for the dead, but as Egypt tradition, only the Royal ones could have such burial. Recent years there is people build some miniature pyramid n they learn that inside the pyramid has effect on preserving things. It seems with the design of it, it somehow affects an unknown field and slowing down time. They tested it with 2 different apple, 1 inside the pyramid and another 1 at outside, results were the ones in pyramid looks & taste fresher than the other.
True from a pure $ cost perspective. But having ample natural light at the ground levels has its intrinsic value that improves quality of life. Furthermore it mproves natural airflow in a hot and humid climate. Science!
@@baron226 Not really... only one of the 3 blocks is facing south. The other two blocks are not getting any direkt sun light. Getting no light at all on the ground level of those two blocks.
The video is by South China Morning Post. Everything they report about China is bad. Or they distort it to look bad. Or they omit, misinform...lie to make China bad.
The best thing about this is everybody has their own terrace. The con is the higher you go up, the smaller the square area you have for your apartment. You will have a nice view from the top floor but it will only a studio apartment.
I think a solution to the lack of stove vents would be during designing, integrated each vent with each apartment unit and going through the walls similar to the existing piping and they could converge into larger pipes as they near the outside to save space,then it leaves through the top.
I would never live in such a place, but i must recognize the architect's talent. Impressive. edit: i don't like post modern architecture at all, but China is full of similar towers, so it doesn't ruin the urban landscape. To me, only classic architecture is beautiful. But this is practical and responds to the increasing needs of China's housing. For this end, this tower is ingenuously designed. It's not beautiful at all, it's not Art in the sacred sense of the term, but it's impressive to look at.
@@propofol-98 Stop bullshitting and ruining this amazing work of art, tired of the same old buildings and this is actually pretty cool. When it comes to safety nothing is actually safe its ridiculous you think others places are safe and you take the same security measures as everywhere locking doors like always.
I imagine that the inside of all of the lower floors are filled with windowless apartments. There's a reason residential buildings tend to be narrow and tall
Looks like a clever solution for high density and access to sun light. The practicality may be questioned, but the experimentation could lead to innovation. Great design.
I don’t think it is much different than apartment or condo in modern buildings. Think about it, they are closely packed too; your neighbors and you are only separated by one thin wall.
This might be better really. I can hear my neighbors dogs like they are next to me. And i can also hear them arguing very clearly. But of courseni dont knownhow thick the walls are in those houses either
Adam Moroccan from Canada, I visited China and I spent 17 days and I really enjoyed my vacation. Everything in China is awesome and people are very nice. I like Shanghai, Beijing, Honk-Kong, X'ian, Suzhou, Hangzhou...It was an amazing swimming in Hong-Kong beautiful beaches :)
(it's a pleasure to have friends coming from afar.) friendly friends are very welcome in China. Welcome to China again. But like CNN and BBC, China will not change the media that discredit China
@@jeckbote858 ikr.... China is no doubt a communist country but as long as you dont spend your days trying to overthrow the government and storm the capital, your living standards are literally miles better than the ones in the so called "free" America...
When the art and looks is more important than living well and being practical. The best buildings and architecture combines art and practicality at its best.
Sure no privacy, I have like 50+ cameras installed in my room, cause i am chinese. You know what, I just noticed that one of the camera's battery is about to running out, i better change the battery now so my government can keep watching me at the night.
If we keep worrying about the inconveniences, we can't really innovate anything. The spirit should be, "we might come across inconveniences but we will eradicate it."
As a kid in the 80's, i made this at school 😶.. It was my pyramid house with a lot of external rooms😅. My idea was a little different but its funny to see it actually exists😄👌
It could be parking lots, maintenance areas, elevators, swimming pool, library, gym, or whatever, you've got the idea. In general I like the design. Different floors will have different square feet apartments and the top is always the best! It could be "mansarde", couple floors connected as one beautiful penthouse.
Very unique and visionary. A very creative way of providing the "house" experience for many families on a very small land. I wouldn't mind a virtual tour showing how the elevator,sewage and environmental systems work.
@@PA-yp6rw Tells you what I know. I looked up La Grande Motte in France and the pictures look amazing. I wish they had a virtual tour videos of it online.
I can see majorly poor people replying here. People in my neighbor hood don’t throw trash into my balcony nor garden. „If you behave disgusting - then you will attract disgusting people.“ Those apartments are pretty expensive. So (almost) everyone will try to keep it as clean as possible. As clean as they want to live.
@@xinyiquan666 I believe that there are lots of ghost cities in china. Also the last one which got a lot of fame, the one with the plants in each balcony. Didn't the plants overgrown and the place became a haven for mosquitoes as no one lived in most of the appartments and the few people who live there can't go to their balcony ironically.
@@sankum4445 lol says a caste indian , ghost city??? lol that old west lie, china is not your world most backward fifth world inida that have no even single toilet , let alone any decent city , entire india is a huge open excrement cave , no indian can afford housing, and with flies on them because of ordors....
