“Because green skyscrapers and high-rises are a bullshit non-solution to serious systemic problems.”
“But if you want greenery on a building nonetheless, do I have an idea for you – a portable, modular, scalable solution called ‘potted plants on your balcony’.”
The downside is almost certainly structural (significant weight as well as moisture, and a need for long term structural integrity and safety, likely don’t pair well. Especially not when the people doing the building are looking for cost effectiveness).
If you don’t build with cardboard this problem is very easy to solve, its called putting a goddam Pond liner between the dirt and the structure itself.
And the weigh isn’t a issue with low buildings, say 10 to 20 floor that aren’t made from cardboard, and higher than that is inefficient in all regards anyway and should be avoided.
lol, sure, that sounds super fucking safe… 🙄
I suggest you look in to building regulations and how developers do their utmost to circumvent them before you speak with such confidence about something you clearly know nothing about… fucking pond liner smmfh… 😂🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Idk the English word for it, but there is a kind of foil that is water resistant and where roots cant go through, as long as its not a tree or something at least. Its put between the foundation and the walls to stop water from below.
Pond liner is just what the translator got out, its probably incorrect.
Also im talking about this
Not planting literal trees on balconys, that would be a structural problem, yes. But small shrubs and Twiners would do the trick as well if not better in regards of cooling and weight. They also don’t need much soil or and significantly less water.
Also can you stop spamming emojis?
Lmmfao
“spamming emojis”… 😂
Get over yourself
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Oh, and it doesn’t matter what you call it, the thing you’re talking about isn’t a solution (not only, as you say yourself, is it only “suitable” for bare minimum greenery, so not even relevant to the discussion about proper plants growing on buildings, it also doesn’t actually do that good a job, I suggest as well as looking up building regulations, you look up what walls look like, but more importantly in what poor condition it is under that crap once it’s taken/falls off, and how many architects and builders despise the stuff).
So to recap - get over yourself, doubling down on being wrong, however confidently, won’t suddenly make you right, nor will criticising the use of emojis because you have a stick so far up your ass you can’t even bend over lmfao (here’s a hint though: the less of an ass you are, the less likely people are to post laughing emojis at you)
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How heavy do you think plants are ? Heavier than furniture? Or just fat humans ?
Water is heavy, and plants are made of mostly water.
Ok. Is water heavier than steel ? I think most buildings can support a bunch of plants
The issue I was trying (and failing) to get at is the additional weight the building now has to support on top of everything else a building normally has to support. However, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal judging by everyone’s replies.
I have no idea. Not an architectural engineer.
My assumption would be that they have to build the building to a code that has a minimum weight requirements.
Male Humans are generally averaging about 80kg.
If you have a party and have 10 - 15 over. That’s a lot of weight. Not all the time but I think if every apartment had a few plants then the weight would still be less than having a party.
Or that was my assumption anyway. I know balconies have a weight limit, as there was a story about a party and too many people were out on it and it collapsed
Short info https://www.bbr-server.de/bauarchivddr/archiv/dokumente/3-4-17-wohnungsbauserie-wbs70.pdf
The blueprints https://bauarchivddr.bbr-server.de/bauarchivddr/archiv/dokumente/3-4-01-2-wohnungsbauserie-wbs-70-6-3-t.pdf
This is the blueprints of a pre modern apartment building (its in German but you could use chat pdf if you need translation) more modern buildings use these as basis (modified versions of course) as these block buildings are modular, cheap, very resistant and reliable. They can definitely support the extra weight of some plants on the facade, nobody wants to plant trees on the building, that wouldn’t necessarily be a weight problem but rather a problem with the roots damaging the building, and you can’t really stop tree roots, maybe some smaller trees but definitely not Oaks or Fruit trees.
That’s awesome, thanks for the info!
No problem