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Ian Johnson
Blake King
Brutalism is bad solely because concrete requires maintenance to not look like "festering post apocalyptic hellhole"
Mileage may vary on gray cubes, I don't like them but mostly it's because in college you could tell from a mile away the brutalist buildings because there were either rust drippies from rebar that got exposed from weathering or blackened grime from the faces that nobody can be bothered to powerwash
imagine pretending to like the aesthetics of something because of an ideology you attach to it like some sort of reactionary rube
Brandon Adams
I feel like a tiny bit of shear force would cause that to topple pretty quickly
I don't know a whole lot about concrete but I'm an electrician and I know concrete pours usually involve giant gas powered vibrators (seriously it's an industrial dildo and it looks like a proton pack) to mix up the concrete after it's poured.
Benjamin Lopez
This stuff really resonates with me. With the rise of capitalism, we have created ever more elaborate personal compartments. Everyone gets their little space separated from everyone else. We've lost track of the way streets and villages were themselves interconnected spaces people lived in.
When they got more wealthy, the Western working classes tried to emulate the image of the bourgeoisie. They didn't realize that that lifestyle was largely about signalling social status. Wealthy people don't have large self-contained houses because it's practical. It's an easy way to impress guests and feel important about yourself, but not a practical way to live your life.
Ideally, I'd like to people to live in small single-room apartments containing basic private necessities, surrounded by lots of common spaces providing luxuries and social activities. These common spaces should form small communities, and these communities should in turn be interconnected into a larger cityscape.
Doing this will be more efficient and social. Both are important considerations. Taking care of children, elderly and disabled people will be much easier. You simply have the community do it. If specialized care is needed you make sure someone qualified lives there. No one misses out on living a normal life.
This is because they rarely have actual contact with each other. You know your neighbor as this alien creature that lives next to you, and sometimes protrudes into your living space. When you have to deal with them personally, you will learn to appreciate them.
How about we just don't that?
Josiah Bennett
It's actually a bit different from regular concrete. Effectively you'd want the layers to mix a bit and bond with each other. That pic is just a prototype demonstrating the concept.
Wyatt Stewart
I want to make comfy brutalist castles.
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Nolan Gray
no, u
Dominic Roberts
dumpan some soviet brutalism/futurism
Ryder Morales
Christian Torres