I don’t get why people say these buildings look depressing. They look dope to me. Unite d’habitation is the name of it.
I know nothing about architecture, but there’s really nothing about this layout that requires the gray brutalist shapes & aesthetic that people find depressing (including me to some extent). Is there?
Exterior walls need to look like they are covered in piss, or this doesn’t work
Part of the aesthetic is tied to the prefab concrete designs, so yes you could paint it. Also there was some color on this building
Honestly I still find it very depressing. After doing some sparse googling it also doesn’t seem like concrete buildings are much cheaper? Maybe there’s a longevity angle to the prefabs you mention?
But now that you point it out I really think it is the concrete that bothers me. I wish it was less blocky, bigger windows, maybe wood paneling? I’m really not sure.
There’s a bunch of similar housing in Germany that (ironically) was constructed by the US military to house its soldiers. It’s now all been turned into apartments. The insides are less nice (I know someone who used to live in one) but the outsides are pretty much identical.
Diagonal symmetry means no adjacent bedrooms?? genius
Red Vienna’s housing architecture gets overlooked too much on Chapo:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Döbling_(Wien)_-_Karl-Marx-Hof.JPG (probably the longest residential building in the world, and it’s made even better by the fact that it was erected opposite to an extremely posh neighbourhood on the hillside, so the first thing the capitalists see when they quite literally look down on the city is a big chunk of socialism)
https://deacademic.com/pictures/dewiki/71/GuentherZ_2008-03-01_0172_Wien05_Reumannhof.jpg
Soviet Constructivist is also cool, looks way nicer than brutalism
For newer examples of Viennese housing, I present to you Wohnpark Alterlaa
Oh wow that looks really nice actually, and this is coming from someone who wants to just fuck off into the woods
I used to want to do that, then I realized I will likely never afford that. Also trains.
This is why we need to depopulate rural areas and rewild as much as we can. Imagine a future with vertical farming for everything, dense cities surrounded by trees with only rail lines and bike paths connecting them. If I could take a train and be in the equivalent of a wilderness area in less than 30 minutes I wouldn’t be losing my mind like I am now. This is all assuming that we live in a socialist society where the only work is meaningful and there aren’t millions of people jerking off in work bathrooms to pass the time. Unless that’s your kink.
vertical farming
I hope you mean permaculture. Vertical farming is a kind of accounting scam where you optimize the land usage parameter and conveniently leave out the giant amount of energy required to replace the sun’s light indoors for each plant.
There’s nothing wrong with rooftop gardens, or window gardening, or infill horticulture. Panels of algae will probably do the job too if you’re willing to eat it. But growing plants without the sun only makes sense if they’re plants you need to hide.
same, I’m thinking the only way I could maybe do it is if I could get a community of leftist friends to all assist and join in? Residential hydroelectric is kinda really insanely good and rain collection and all that would be the goal, as well as a medium greenhouse for an aquaponic farm, that’s about all that’s needed, and some land but damn that’s expensive
Residential hydroelectric
Like from your rain gutters? Or would you need to have a creek running through your backyard?
My boss loves brutalist architecture but I’m scared to talk about it with him in the event I get made.
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