Chinese Build 15-Story Hotel In Just Six Days, Rest On Seventh
Chinese Build 15-Story Hotel In Just Six Days, Rest On Seventh
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Wait a minute. . . how the fuck do they expect people to get to these upper floors?!? Where are the fucking elevators?!? Where are the stairs??? Where's the HVAC??? Where's the plumbing??? Where's the electrical??? So the Chinese built the equivalent of an Erector set in six days?!? Useless!!!
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Yea I guess they could build an ESB in about 2 months at that rate, from the outside anyway.
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sounds really safe....
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Now they'll spend the next 2 years fixing things.
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^Actually, I'm sure most developers would want to do this to save costs. I'm also pretty certain that on a percentage basis of built floor space cheap-o prefab suburbia crap is way outweighing the rest of our built environment.
Just because it's prefab, doesn't mean a building can't have decent articulation and massing. This structure isn't pretty, but the concepts are useful in my opinion. |
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you probably could find a shit load of deficiencies at the end of the job, and everything must be up to code
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maybe this whole thing is just a gimmick?
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Of course it's a gimmick. . . how do you get from floor to floor???
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This is not a gimmick, nor is it restricted just to China or new technology. Rather it's just a form of building called 'prefabricated', where its all built offsite (usually multiple factory produced units), and assembled when ready, in a couple of days (or hours almost). It was big in the UK in the 60s, when it really did signify cheap and nasty - and understandably died out. Now its back bigtime, with the majority of new build residentials in the cities built like this, and this time round alot better, safer and easier:
1960s prefabs:(: http://www.corbisimages.com/images/6...4/HU055907.jpg www.corbisimages.com http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3379/...92d217ff_z.jpg 1990s and 00s prefabs:): http://www.greenfab-media.com/wp-con...8/08/round.jpg www.greenfab-media.com http://www.exinteriordesign.com/wp-c...-Zog-House.jpg www.exinteriordesign.com Prefabricated operating theatres craned into the award winning Evelina Children's Hospital: http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/ima...177.117.97.jpg www.london-se1.co.uk http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/3...c9b_z.jpg?zz=1 http://www.building.co.uk/Pictures/w...618_174_TS.jpg www.building.co.uk |
^Of course it's a gimmik. . . the video was merely to demonstrate that they could build the "shell" of this structure quickly using these specific building technique. . . nothing more nothing less. . . but to think that the Chinese are doing this on a grand scale or that what was pictured in the video was anything other than an unusable "shell" of a building is just silly. . .
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There are some benefits to prefab. Temperature controlled conditions during manufacturing, and less mistakes at the job-site. The drawbacks of course are limitations in design
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It's also good for making outdoor sets for a movie.
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6 days to put up a 15 story, earthquake-resistant, fully enclosed shell with 1% waste? Yeah, total yawner there... |
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Interesting way of building and such tho might really turn into a trend in low rise building projects. |
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