What are Earthscrapers? 

Sky, Ground, Earth, Water, Long ago the 4 scrapers lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Sky scrapers attacked.

Earthscrapers would be a great idea to build in Mars !

It seems to me that this would only be practical in places with very high demand for real estate whose ground could not support a skyscraper.

It’s 2035. You work as a caretaker on the bottom level of the Brazil earthscraper. It’s dark. It’s damp. And you wade through ankle deep litter to get to your desk everyday. Then you start hearing screams and panic from above.

“Earth scrapers are not buried underground. Instead they extend a considerable distance downwards from the surface.” Uh.......I think that’s the meaning of something being underground.

Earth scraper? Isn't that a shovel? 🤔 Good video keep up the great work.👍🏾

It's a hole. Ya live in it. Any questions?

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This looks like an infrastructure from an anime series, which is why I think we should make it a reality A silly reason yes I am aware.

Maybe it's doable with an overly complicated system of mirrors, ventilation and water evacuation. But it still occupies space that could be used for a much better skyscraper. And comes in conflict with underground infrastructure.

Next episode: scraper scraper.

Now that a name is already created, let the race begin to see who builds the deepest earthscraper.

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Somehow to me that seems quite dangerous to build such a structure in geological active places, like proposed in Japan or Mexico City. I mean, Skyscrapers are allready prone to collapse in such regions, an underground structure seems even more dangerous to me to its inhabitants.

Fernando Higueras, a Spanish architect, called them “rascainfiernos” (“hellscrappers”)

eehm. I have issues with this. I live in an area with a relatively high water table so I may be more aware of this than others. but that inverted triangle would essentially be a giant boat. we have had issues here with semi-submerged parking garages forcing themselves out of the ground after a lot of rain.

This was much more interesting then I thought it would be when I saw the title.

Water proof? it could become a giant aquarium .....

There is a mall in mexico city that is not an earthscraper but its a complex of 3 buildings that go down just like a earthscraper, called Garden Santa Fe.

What an insane idea. I hope sometime in my lifetime one of these gets built. What would be even more insane is if on top of the earth scraper there was a skyscraper.

Y'know in Copenhagen we have metro stations which could be considered earthscrapers, since they're big boxes with the deepest point about 150ft underground with a clear view towards the surface above with glass windows, the sides of the station extending directly above the train tracks could in theory be used for office space too if rebuilt slightly. So yeah you could say that these metro stations are like mini earth scrapers

More on subsurface housing and commercial /industrial stuff would be great. I've always loved underground stuff. Geothermal tech too and general earth sheltered stuff. My late cyber sis ref to me as a tall hobbit, I get more into the tech than the fantasy stuff.

Earthscraper is an incredibly stupid name. A skyscraper is named not because a "scraper" is some kind of tower or building, but because it's so tall it scrapes the sky. This doesn't scrape the earth. It pierces it. Earthpiercer would be more appropriate.

Can't wait for the space scrapers: scrapers that reach the heavens. Hanging scrapers: scrapers that hang down from outer space attaching back to Earth. And floating scrapers: scrapers that go up and down in the sky.

Would they not just hit the water table and just be flooded?

Greetings from Mexico !! I had no idea of that project downtown. Awesome video as always

the 'scraper' series has some serious undertones if something goes wrong and the homes suddenly become prisons.

Isn't Mexico City incredibly seismically active? It doesn't seem feasible to me.

Can another building be built on top of an Earthscraper?

Excellent video. Thank You. Just combine the two, Ground Scraper & Earth Scraper into a Hybrid Ground /Tunnel Scraper. It can several miles long and one can have light residential, commercial, & retail Development around the Light Shafts of the Tunnel Sections. Plus it could have it's own light rail transit system.

In theory, the idea of an "earthscraper" would be to maximize land use, and fit more people in your city. But that isn't actually what would happen. If you take a plot of land and build an earthscraper, unless you want the residents to turn into mole people, you surface has to be transparent. So you can't build anything on that plot of land. Can't even plant trees. So in effect, it's no different than simply building a skyscraper on that land. But I guess if you don't care about sunlight, and have no interest in ever opening a window to get fresh air, being underground would be a great way to regulate temperature without using too much electricity...

Raccoon city

I am not sure I would feel OK more than 10 floors down. Interesting video, thank you.

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I get the idea is to take less land, but honestly I think a hybrid of the ideas would be nice. Put 20 floors below ground with 40 above. You can make a 60 floor hybrid scraper thats structurally supported by natural ground & reduce the height of many buildings.

How is it safer being in an earthscraper during an earthquake?

I think these would be perfect to build on Mars or on the Moon.

And here they are, nice to see that I am not the only one who thought about this.

So what would a building be called if it was both comparable to a skyscraper in height, and an earthscraper in depth... Or, even more absurd, what if it was wide as a groundscraper, tall as a skyscraper, deep as an earthscraper, and had a sky-bridge connecting it to an oceanscraper?

So basically earthscrapers are bunkers Skyscrapers are super high buildings Oceanscrapers are basically seasteads

Digging that would be very costly. It would also be hotter the deeper you go. When you hit the water table, the problem of leaking would be an issue.

Depthscraper defiantly sounds better.

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ground scrapers and earth scrapers is a silly name for them. just because they are built along the ground or into the ground does not mean that they are comparable to sky scrapers. Along the ground or into the ground should not follow the "scraper:" term! They are not scraping anything!

There have been a few proposals for an Earthscraper in Bisbee Arizona's Lavender pit mine. It is a large open pit, roughly conical. Most of the digging's already been done. Problem is, real estate prices are too low in Southeast Arizona to justify such a project.

The problem of building these wouldn't be too hard. The problem would be to DIG MASSIVE HOLES. Perhaps they could be built at quarries instead. Its not efficient to dig 500 meters in the middle of a city.

there's an underground mall in central Moscow and been there for ages

do you have any idea how hot its gonna be down there from all the sunlight hitting the glass floor?

The Shanghai Songjiang Shimao Hotel is kind of an earthscraper, if not entirely, built in an abandoned mine pit.

An amazing concept and great video, but it would require substantial mechanical drainage systems

Why can't humongous buildings like in Star Wars movies be built instead?

Just go to Coober Pedy in Australia. The whole town is underground.

London has those Iceberg homes I hear where they build 3 or 4 floors underground since they can't build up. The Construction seems to piss off the neighbors lol!

My university's civil engineering department was housed in a 7 floor building underground with a central hub for light. It was horrible to visit with terrible lighting.

mantle scraper

Most cities are built by the coast or a river, so ground water intrusion would be a major issue.

great video

Well, yeah, they are farfetched. For good reasons. There's not a lot of appeal to living and/or working underground. Unpleasant. Sometimes people do it for protection from very specific dangers, but never on such a large scale, and usually only temporarily until the danger has passed. Digging holes in the ground is very expensive compared to building upward, especially once you get down to bedrock. There are horizontal tunnel-boring machines, but not for vertical tunnels of that magnitude.

i think its an interesting concept and a great way to tackle housing and office shortages however, how will people get fresh air and sunlight living and working in such spaces?

Isn't this also known as a Geo-front? Or is that something else entirely?

Underground building in Resident Evil was an epic one🔥.

Don't ascend past the 6th level though, or the curse of the Earthscraper will turn you into a suffering amorphis blob who wishes for a death that will never come. Also there's Megaman.

Heh, the best thing about Earthsrcapers is that in case of Nuclear Warfare or any wich includes many Bombs on Cities (If the Earthscraper has been build Correctly) the Earthscraper can be used as a Bunker. Also another Advantage is that you gan basicaly go down asmuch as you may like, once you're deep enugth you can even use the Updraft of Air created by the Earth Heating Cool Air firstly as a Energy Source but much more as a Naturaly "Fuled" Air Ventilation system (Expected if done Correctly ... logicaly). And another great thing is that you can always expand those and even connect them with other Earth Scrapers, wich is impossible with current Human Tech.

can you imagine how much earth and dig would need to be dug up for this? then again it's not like we haven't dig up that amount before it just he engineering is something we haven't done before

Skyscraper + Earthscraper = ultimate space usage!!

Pentagon?

Rani ki Vav, Ahemdabad, India could be one ancient example of earth scraper

Isn't there an Earthscraper shopping mall in Hong Kong already?

Since there is damage done in mining sites, wouldnt be efficient to extract resources while doing the project? Not only are things faster for both parties; the one constructing and the company mining gets to gain resources from it. The surrounding area gets to be participated in regrowth to make it suitable for living fixing the mining problem of having patches of land totally deserted. Water caused by rainfall (also typhoons or similar stuff) can be converted to a dam like mechanism which supply water to the entire structure or be used in filter as another way of grabbing drinkable water. Sewage shouldnt be that much of a problem? Right? It would take a heck of fertile stuff to grow that much greens inside that structure, so why not make use of the waste? Id accept it but I guess its useless when we choose to have gleaming towers instead ( isnt that the same concept as the water from the bottom goin to the top )

Mexico City built the one pictured in your video can u update this video

I want one!

WaterScraper.. SandScraper.. IceScraper.. SpaceScraper.. Scraper between Scrapers... 😂😂 😄😄 😁 😁😀 😆 😆😆

I guess that means with elevators, the numbers will go backwards.

What if we build together earthscrapers with skyscrapers?

"And they call it a mine. A mine!"

Guy's eyes are striking and hypnotic. 🍥^🍥

I love this ideas, this is what I want from humanity ideas of sci-fi fantasy made into reality (and ideas that helps human evolve and keep nature from collapsing) Imagine if every city was underground and we left the out side for nature so we only go out for natural exercise or simply to enjoy nature and go to other planets But I'm a little clusterphobic and I'm afraid of heights, but I like mountains how about a mountain scraper?

Great Idea, but what happens to the underground areas in the event of a flood, It may turn into an Atlantis Museum.

What happens during an earthquake? And the entire ground shifts?

I wouldn’t live in one. These are depressing tbh

It seems an EARTH-SCRAPER would be even more susceptible to earthquake damage than a SKY-SCRAPER. Whereas a sky-scraper would not even notice a quake of a low magnitude. An Earth-scraper would buckle at every little rumble.

What is the point of an Earthscraper? There's plenty of room on the globe, and the only good reason to build in the vertical direction is to have a really tall cool looking building that can be seen from everywhere. If you take away a skyscraper's visual appeal, all you're left with is practical working space, and there's a lot of ways to create mere space than something like an earthscraper. Good luck not having it flood eventually.

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Seems like it would cut down on heating and cooling bills.

You mean.... like the houses found in Matmata, Tunisia?

Earthscraper can be useful concert for "MARSCRAPER"

Interesting concept, but it's not happening! Who's gonna pay top money to live underground like a rat? And where exactly would the parking area be for that building? Even further underground? It's gonna take forever to get to your parking space. Not practical! At best, they could take some ideas from that concept and apply it to other projects.

why am i thinking about rain and tsunamis while watching this video ? and what about the pressure on the sides of the "earthscraper" , the deeper you go the higher it will be !

Theres one thats being considered to go where that old diamond mine is in Russia

Earthscrapers... like the dwarven place Bilbo goes to in The Hobbit? Does that count?

0.10 Which building?

That's a cool idea but I think there may be more then a few issues with it in the eyes of most.

It's feasible if we solve the pressure problem!

A groundscaper is a transposition of a skyscraper. An earthscraper is a negative skyscraper.

A giant earthscraper in Mexico city...a city plagued by earthquakes. Great plan. 👍

Dirty water extraction would be a challenge.. and not to mention rainwater accumulation

Seems like a good solution for deserts or tundra

We should have built this to replace the WTC!

Wouldn’t it be cold af inside tho