bruh imagine fucking up the construction of an engineering school. thats hilarious.

@bcpond

2 жыл бұрын

Its both the best and worst place to do it

@zorodepre8509

2 жыл бұрын

In my city there's an engineering school that floods every year ( from ~1 cm to up to the knee )cuz they forgot to take into account the rainy weather and the low terrain and they never bothered fixing it 💀

@2old._.

2 жыл бұрын

@@zorodepre8509 maybe they took "all good architecture leaks" too seriously :p

@ChrisPage68

2 жыл бұрын

@@2old._. Or maybe the land was cheaper because they knew it was a flood plain. This happens a lot in the UK. Developers build there because it's cheap. And the government lets them.

@piraterubberduck6056

2 жыл бұрын

They messed up with the foundations of the building where architecture is taught at the uni I went to. This was corrected, but it did cause delays.

An often made mistake is the wish to build a house on a beautiful location. Once yoy build there , the nice location is no longer present. It is better to build on a location that has a view of the beautiful location.

@selamlaut8165

2 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of my situation. I used to be in a position to chose either to rent an old apartment which is cheaper, or a new beautiful condo if seen from the oustide. Both of these buildings are located opposite to each other. Being a cheap guy since forever, I chose the old apartment. I couldn't be more grateful of my choice when I saw the beauty of that condo's architecture from my bed. I always had a thought what would be the feeling of the condo's residents when they look up my place from their windows, it must be sucks because the exterior is "decorated" with algae and stuff lol

@MrTigracho

2 жыл бұрын

I got family living in Trujillo, Peru. A Town in the cost. In 2018 a Tsunami anhahilated my cousin's Restaurant, which was a few steps from the beach. It was build there because the view from there was nice. I ain't an architect, but I advice to seriously consider if the place has risk of Natural disasters, or just don't build that close to the beach.

@LeroyBrown

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrTigracho almost every major city was built onto an area with significant natural disaster risk. The geographic suitability to get them started Was also a clear and present sign of each particular danger. As I used to hear all them time, if it ain't dangerous then it isn't fun.

@davidkathurima838

2 жыл бұрын

nice, never thought of this

@ChrisPage68

2 жыл бұрын

Why shouldn't you build in a beautiful location? This is often the excuse NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) who already live there use to object to new houses being built in the countryside. It's just snobbery.

The first problem every Minecraft player faces.

@Virsho

2 жыл бұрын

boom boom boom I cant stop singing to this bloody tune tune tune

@Apple_Apporu

2 жыл бұрын

Screw location just build it mid air

@Stonecargo21

2 жыл бұрын

@@Apple_Apporu my beautiful villa surrounded by a detailed village the shadow of a creeper farm

One of the key issues students face is deciding themselves where they think a building should be placed. A few decades ago students on Helsinki were given a design task to design a church set in a wide area. Well-known church architect Juha Leiviskä was invited to attend the final crit! You are all Catholics! he exclaimed, exasperated. "Catholics place the church on the top of the hill, making it a landmark, but we're Lutherans, we always place it at the bottom of the hill, not wishing to cause possible offence."

@Flackon

2 жыл бұрын

Funny that he thought of it as a reason to not cause offense, lol

I can’t remember if it’s in Maddison or Ridgeland, MS, but there are 2 randomly placed long and tall office buildings in the middle of a field. They were built around the 2008 financial crisis, so I was a kid and thought they were just building castles. I asked my parents what they were and they said it was going to be the focal point of a big mall and neighborhoods, but the property owner passed away and the money for the project disappeared in the crisis. Now there are some suburbs popping up around them so they seem less out of place, but still something funny to see off if I-55. Also there’s a cell tower covered in a material to make it look like the Washington monument in the same area haha.

@ivaughn57

2 жыл бұрын

sounds like the belko experiment buildings, I'm gonna pass on that personally

@topscorer212

2 жыл бұрын

It's madison. Brick city mississippi. The place that got medical Marijuana held up.

@zackd519

2 жыл бұрын

I used to live in Madison, MS. Its building codes are such a joke. Everything has to be made of brick and stone, gas stations have Corinthian columns, no signs can be over six feet tall, etc. I used to drive by the cell tower monument as I exited the highway every day going home. The whole town eventually started to feel weird and fake to me, and I'm very glad I'm not there anymore.

@jagsoccer3

2 жыл бұрын

384 Galleria Pkwy?? If those are the same buildings, I lived near them as a kid and mayyy have snuck onto the roof while they were being built.

@burgeranus5725

2 жыл бұрын

That town was just doing whatever huh

As a landscape architect in the US, a common problem we face with our architecture project partners is their inability to site buildings properly. Unless maybe said building is in Manhattan for instance with 100% parcel buildout. Landscape architects know about site and context. Talk to us! We are friendly and helpful. The most successful projects are when landscape architects design the site holistically and can site the buildings, orientation, and access. Then collaborate on footprints etc.

@dobbberd3516

Жыл бұрын

Also part of the team are Civil engineers that extend the wet utilities and drain the runoff from the site. Imperviousness, runoff, detention, and flooding can be significant issues when dealing with a site.

Odd locations- spite houses, the classic being the person gets the short end from a will but builds a house on the "impossible lot" to block the view of the sibling who got the prime lot.

One trap is to build on the "best location" in a large property, which spoils that location because part of it being best was being vacant. In contrast if a building can heal a derelict site it raises the quality of the whole property.

@nullobject5943

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more.

@jobflobad0by0b

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting point

Back in my grad school days I did a lot of chain-of-title research on historic properties in the NYC area. Many of them still had boundary descriptions predating Jefferson's grid system, and they had never been updated, so the property lines could be very difficult to determine. They described lots of trees, rocks, and streams that had absolutely no relevance in the present day. One of the most interesting was for a property on Staten Island. I was able to trace back the chain of title to King Charles II's grant of land to "Yeoman Winant" around 1670. (I forget the exact year.) The early dockets were incredibly difficult to read. Besides the normal difficulties with handwriting, they were written in the Dutch alphabet using a language that could politely be termed "Dutchlisch." Obviously the clerk was Dutch and doing the best he could.

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Around here, all properties around bodies of water were always off.

@tw0million

2 жыл бұрын

must have been really cool digging through all that history. what was the outcome of your search? were you able to conclusively determine the property lines?

@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944

2 жыл бұрын

@@tw0million I wasn't able to determine the exact property lines, but I wasn't really hired to do that. We were researching the history of two houses on a property that is now part of Clay Pits Ponds State Park, and we needed to match up the various owners to the structures, census records, tax assessments, etc. It turned out that one of the houses did contain some 17th century elements, probably built by "Yeoman Winant" although it had been greatly altered and enlarged.

@dragonmartijn

2 жыл бұрын

@@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944 Dutch, de beste taal om de werkelijkheid te omschrijven!

@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944

2 жыл бұрын

@@dragonmartijn That may be true. (I'm 1/4 Dutch.) But a Dutch/English mashup is mind-bending!

Nice video ...but I was expecting to learn specifically why the 10' shift south was an issue

@mjmulenga3

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@theepicwizard4631

2 жыл бұрын

Not an engineer yet, but the first thing I thought is communications. 10 foot is around 3,05 metres, which means, that all the communications and infrastructure (starting from the road so cars could get there, and ending to the sewer network or electricity) needs to be shifted and particially rebuilt to fit the building

Not sure if I missed it, but there are other environmental factors like flooding risk or noise pollution. In the UK we also have conservation areas or areas of outstanding natural beauty, and "greenbelt" land where you can't build or you have to comply with strict rules. There are also restrictions like protected views. For example, the Leadenhall Building in London was built with a slant on one wall to avoid encroaching on a protected view of St. Paul's Cathedral.

@paxundpeace9970

2 жыл бұрын

I have to asked it again. Are you related to the actor Hazeldine or is your name a contribution to him.

@mdhazeldine

2 жыл бұрын

@@paxundpeace9970 No, not related!

@philipbloomquist1580

2 жыл бұрын

He addressed many of these in the video, not the exact examples as you mentioned, but he talked about hydrology issues and areas of setbacks from natural protected areas. Although in the US there is often less rules of how and where to build than in the UK for a myriad of reasons and his teaching area of expertise is in the US. He did allude to how codes can vary by place and that is part of location factors. In reference to protected view sheds, you gave a really good example when you referenced an example about St. Paul's Cathedral, I did not find that protected views were addressed in the video.

These videos have been so helpful in reigniting my passion for architectural theory! After completing my masters last year, it's really great to still have a connection to the theoretical space

This reminds me of a documentary about Renzo Piano's building of Kansai Airport. At one point someone had built a parking garage blocking the view he'd created. He got it torn down.

We have a funny similarity! My first CAD job in college was drafting for the civil engineers in the Resource Management Agency of my local county. It was a great start and translated nicely to architecture!

I've been watching a lot of Not Just Bikes alongside your channel, and it's interesting hearing you talk about zoning from an architect's perspective. NJB is a huge proponent of mixed commercial zoning and seems to hate setback requirements. I'm wondering how US architects might try to work around single family zoning restrictions to create 'neighbourhoods with character' and more generally how much influence architects can exert over those who make planning laws?

@andrewthemorley

2 жыл бұрын

Example of rules to work around: American cities seem to waste 90% of their space on parking and roads, prioritising cars over people themselves. Although we still have rules about minimum parking requirements here in Australia, it seems like every planning permit comes with an exemption.

@briankirkpatrick8888

2 жыл бұрын

Standard American suburbs don't have houses designed by architects. The mass developer just uses the same 3 plans from a catalogue that they purchased a decade ago. Architects work in the rich end of town, perhaps in a gated community. Over there, the HOA has even more restrictive rules, and the architect's job is to abide by them so that a house can look rich without being too different. The only way that neighborhood character figures into it is that the HOA might object or the city might refuse to issue a permit if the building looks too different - on the grounds of protecting the 'character of the neighborhood'. Architects have no real influence over the planning laws, but they do know how to make pretty graphics - the sorts of thing that help sell a perspective. Very useful if you're applying to get a zoning exemption for your new urbanist development plan. Maybe if enough architects and city planners worked together to sway public opinion, some momentum could be gained at the state level. But the NIMBYs are abundant and evenly distributed, so it's very hard to change.

@SuWoopSparrow

2 жыл бұрын

@@briankirkpatrick8888 Yes, I wouldnt hold my breath for much change in the US in this regard or really most regards.

Not only can you explain complex things in simple terms, you share that with us here on KZread. I appreciate all the work you do. I thank you and all involved for the time and effort put into this quality content.

Excellent video but I wish you'd explained the case from the beginning more. What was wrong about the university building, why was that mistake made and how did they fix it?

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

You're right, I need to tighten up the writing. Thanks for the feedback...

@reasonable1

2 жыл бұрын

@@stewarthicks yeah, could be nice to tie back to the intro in the end. But great video anyway, thanks!

it's really interesting how the emphasis on responding to the conditions of a location has grown in the last few decades (in the micro neighborhood and site sense, but also in the macro country, continent and culture sense), not very long ago modernists were discussing the possibility of a standardized architecture. i think Niterói Contemporary Art Museum by Oscar Niemeyer might just be the direct opposite of Casa Malaparte hahaha, legend has it that Niemeyer designed the building in a vacuum and then went around Rio de Janeiro looking for a place to put it.

I have no idea why this was recommended to me but damn, that was surprisingly informative.

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the introduction!

Common misconception about Houston, there are zoning laws. Just these laws are spread out amongst several ordinances and bills and not in one cohesive "Zoning law" bill. These laws that are effectively zoning do restrict what use a space has and what cant be built in a place and that that thing has to be built. Houston is not significantly more or less regulated in this regard, to other cities in the US.

Video came in great timing, my site technology class starts in a week

Talking about wrong location, here in Mexico, The Entire Mexico City is located in the worse area all around the country, land´s conditios multiply earthquake effects... however we've fund the way to solve it, now there are new engineerings working on it.

@elijahyoung11

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Mexico City’s land was still that of Tenochtitlan. It’d be incredible!

@2036scott

2 жыл бұрын

the tectonic activity could be because of the aquifer under the city is being depleted?

Amazing how this shows up on my recomendations right when im making a big building in Minecraft Great vídeo btw

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Fate brought us together.

Southside Stewie @ it again with the educational content. Great production value on this one, can see the improvement in real time.

It would be nice if there was a way to bypass as many of these issues as possible, but it looks like in the USA, at least, (and probably everywhere), there's no way round. For instance as far as views go, if you just built tall enough, and left a big enough green space in front of a building, just about everyone would have a view. But you can't. If you build tall, it has to be almost close enough to touch something else that's taller, generally. And if you build stumpy and sprawled ... well forget it. Apart from the people on the edges (and that's only until the next blot of sprawl splotches out over the land), nobody has a view. I suppose it's better than a "view" of a wall of glass, though. Or some sculpture disguised as a building that never changes. As far as soil conditions go, if you were able to pick and choose which parts of a large piece of ground were to be built on - in blocks - or used as green space - in blocks again - you might have quite a good chance of placing your building on good footings? You wouldn't have to worry about views, since there would be a view of sorts automatically from the building being tall enough for that, and isolated enough on the view side for that not to be blocked eventually. And then if your building was very compact in this manner, your services would just automatically have shorter distances on average to cover than they would if you made a wide, sparse net of them, spread over what could've been your green space, but is now constrained to be paving or pockets of lawn (if you stick to the canonical recipe for a great neighbourhood). In other words a lot of the problems mentioned could be solved by going for a combination of density and sprawl, both at the same time. (Insist on having your cake and eating it.) Put habitations in dense blocks. Put green living space in blocks where you actively prevent building of structures, too. Put a tall block in an enormous, suburb-sized green space, with lots of public ways, so as much of it as possible is accessible to everyone. I'm not talking apartment towers plus public parks (with no private green space). Make "walls" not towers. And make one of the rights of occupancy of a residential space, the right to some personal green space (where the restrictions are only for the prevention of suburbanization by turning garden sheds into houses). They do something like this in Germany already, and it works. It just needs to be pushed to a next level, where there are "suburban apartments" - with the benefits of dense living as well as the benefits of sprawl. It might require some rethinking of what amounts to "waste" in a tall building to make it truly competitive, though. The horrible thing about apartments is being subject to your neighbours noise (although suburbs are not quiet as nature - what with e.g. lawn mowers and kids screaming). Maybe it could be made feasible to make a "wall full of holes" - instead of using every last bit of space, wall-to-wall. Leave a gap between units. Leave gaps above and below, too. At least a building like that would have low wind loading? There might be some configuration like this that gives this extra privacy without excessively increasing costs. Even if this is a doomed idea, it might make an interesting exercise for those learning to do the sums on these things to play as a game? Somehow beat the odds, and make the "wall-block-with-holes-in-it" into the best choice. No points for just immediately knowing it's dumb. (No points for refusing to think, IOW). Anyway, here's the rough dream again: "Wall". Where people go home to sleep, perchance to dream. Units separated by wind holes/ "balconies for the dog". At the ends/ one end of the wall, parking garage. All the stink machines piled up in one, big, nasty heap, excluded from the neighbourhood. They exist to pollute other places, and kill the children and grandparents of others, not those of "the wall". 2km out front; 2km out back: Green space. That should allow enough space for at least one golf course, one pony trail, and some stables, lots of veggie plot size allotments for less keen gardeners, plenty of little small, manageable gardens with gazebos to take shelter under, quite a few big expensive gardens for people who love to waste their money on plants, public tennis courts (for competition style tennis), private, enclosed courts (for other kinds of tennis). Public pools, private pools, ... suburban stuff, only there's no need to choose which. OK so there should be a cricket pitch, too, for the purposes of bringing civilization to the Americas. No roads, no cars, maybe some hansom cabs. Within the neighbourhood, move slowly, unless you're taking the metro. And then de-uglifications too? A blank wall would be as ugly as the ugly parts of downtown. So plan to "stick on prettiness". Onto a practical residential space (maybe with some Hundertwasser perturbations of the simpler symmetries) plan to stick on things whose main purpose is to look nice. So all the architect HAS TO achieve is a human-beautiful facade. Being optimally effective, using the inside spaces behind this is optional. So some way along "the wall", you might have "St Mark's Square" - done as cheap as is consistent with durability as possible. A space people might hang out in. Try it on a small scale. If it works, try again. And maybe further along you could even slap on a Tower/ Monument - full of facets, and mirrors, or brutal concrete, or whatever the sculptor wishes to compel those who bow to it down there to bow to. I just mention these things to point out that there's no need for "wall purity". There probably need to be bits of uneven stuff if you want people to feel happy looking in the direction of a wall like this. (Looking away from it should be nice. Lots of trees. Who doesn't love trees?)

@briankirkpatrick8888

2 жыл бұрын

I got lost in there, but I'm intrigued and I'd like to visualize it. Find someone who can sketch examples of what you're proposing, pay them if you have to. Then spread it around the internet. A good vision can spread.

@sicko_the_ew

2 жыл бұрын

@@briankirkpatrick8888 Thanks for reading it. I should probably keep to the generalities or be very specific, and just target specific aspects of the idea, because I end up taking up way more of everyone's time than I should be (assuming it's even read). If I had money for it, I'd probably have drawings done, but for the time being that's not possible. The most general picture of this "suburb" is that it's a single building up to kilometers long, and also tall. There's no building in front of it, and none behind. That's all green space. A more particular view of it would have "pretty features" added, almost entirely for the sake of making it look nice from the outside. (And the details of what's pretty? I'd have to leave that up to people who're good at that. I think e.g. an Italian piazza looks nice, so my extensions for the sake of appearances would be something like sticking on a replica piazza. I could also half imagine having some places where there are "modern" faceted office-tower type features - things like those "gherkin shaped blocks" in London, for instance. Only I'd want to incorporate that into the building, not have it as its own tower off to the side.) The "holes" can be imagined by just thinking of one of those brick walls where you leave out some of the bricks. The holes would be "balconies", the bricks would be dwellings. I think that's probably enough of the essentials for other people to add their own variations to? (And in these things the details matter.) Anyway, thanks for reading and commenting. I appreciate that.

New in the channel… and I’m HOOKED.

Geology is important. I did it for over a decade before becoming a design student (I'm only halfway thru right now)!

A problem I have with some of the examples on the misplaced.design site is that they were intended to be out of place even in the urban landscapes in which they were placed in. The NY Guggenheim as a particularly notable example. It only "fits" in the cityscape because it is a building and a city is made of buildings, but it was designed to stand out even there. And nearly any building will stand out in the landscapes they chose. Even those structures designed to be in "harmony" with nature stand out as separate from it. A conscious design works better than simply plopping a random structure down, but any noticeable building stands out and is jarring if viewing the landscape as the primary influence. It is, indeed, a conflict to design a building that calls attention to itself whilst also purporting to blend with its surroundings or, at least, reflect them.

There are some insanely placed castles around the world, that would be an interesting video idea, to look at old/ancient building design and show how it's changed or how certain elements of their design philosophy are used today

@ingvarhallstrom2306

2 жыл бұрын

Castles are usually built as fortifications with safety/inaccessability being the priority. Built on top of a hill or mountainside makes it difficult to besiege, bur it also makes it totally inpractical for daily use.

why do all the new university buildings look the same? It's like they are growing from the same plant and just spreading everywhere.

@aes53

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, I'm at one of those architecturally uninspiring universities, unfortunately. Florida Southern University was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and it shows.

Great video on a complex topic. I disagree with one point. Buildings, e.g. a house, in a warm climate might be located on top of a hill to catch the breeze. Whether it's on the north or south side is of little consequence because the sun is almost directly overhead at midday. Or, perhaps it might be located on the east side of a hill because the strongest sun in the tropics, most difficult to sunshade, is from the west in the afternoon. Please continue with these videos! Very helpful.

@jimurrata6785

2 жыл бұрын

In colder northern climates the house was often built directly atop a spring, so the only source of water wouldn't freeze solid in winter.

I'd love to see aerial snapshots of different residential areas across the globe; does orientation mirror the Northern Hemisphere below the equator? How do homes adapt to climates based on temperature- shielding themselves with foliage and hiding behind cliff faces

@quinosonic82

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, in the southern hemisphere sun at mid day is at north. near the equator is trickier... depending on the season it might come from the north or the south, but always high

Started watching to compare US and UK building and planning. Subscribed to keep seeing the hot host!

Orientation to the sun was barely mentioned in this discussion, but it is critical to the overall health and energy efficiency of any structure. I live in an area with many 200 year old brick farmhouses. Over the last 40+ years, I have watched as many were abandoned and have crumbled. The common factor in the failure of these structures is their orientation to the sun.

OOOOO this is great information! thank you Mr. Architect! - future Architect, current student

Casa Malaparte is on the island of Capri, in the Bay of Naples. Lipari is off the NE coast of Sicily, north of Taormina & Mt. Etna. I’ve been to both

Just found you and loved your channel!!!!!

Absolutely crushed this video.

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

If you have ever played Minecraft or No Man's Sky, you know the fucking struggle of finding the best building spot

@The-pf4zy

2 жыл бұрын

Unless you're playing on a superflat world in minecraft, then it's trivial

@Tristan-

2 жыл бұрын

*cough cough world edit

@gardenjoy5223

Жыл бұрын

Why on earth would you put the f word in that sentence? Oh, I know... to show you are but a rebellious teenager, not having outgrown bad tendencies. When you grow up, you'll learn, that such words kill your argument, rather than enhance it.

Grateful to you

The best architects and engineers build wherever they have to, they make complicated things simpler.

The algorithm pushed your video to me. Excellent video, just subbed :)

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Praise the algorithm.

Informative and interesting, ty

Years ago I was on a local zoning variance board. Interest rates dropped, and we got hit with tons of variance requests because, during a previous building boom, a lot of houses were built into setbacks, and now they couldn't refinance (or sell) without getting a variance.

I have read deeds in Virginia to the effect of: At a bearing of 245 degrees from north, at a distance of 13 chains from Marker Oak, measure 200 yards East, 100 yards South, 200 yards West, then 100 Yards North back to the start point. Thus shall be defined the property.

It’s ironic that “mala parte” in Spanish translates to “bad spot”

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Haha!

Theirs a house near where I live and it's a beautiful concrete structure but is entirely surrounded by dark woodland and doesn't have great views. Up the road is a farm house which would be perfect for this house but it definitely wouldn't get planning permission due to the fact it wouldn't suit the area

I love how you explain and I learn a lot of informative things from you!😊

A very well put together video on a very interesting topic 👏

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Location matters - in Los Angeles, the beach communities have 73° summer highs, and just 30 miles inland it could be over 100°.

@paxundpeace9970

2 жыл бұрын

Being close too the shoreline is an advantage. This explains the pricetag for malibu

Fantastic topic I love it keep it up

Great video! I live near this Stanford White house called the weather hill house, built for his brother in law, it's perched atop this big hill overlooking the long island sound. As far as I can remember this house has always been vacant and dilapidated. It was built for his brother in law, whom he didn't like, and purposely made it ugly. Now the ascetics of the house is up for debate, I think its a cool old house, but upon viewing in google earth you can see how the roof lines create a Maltese Cross.

I really enjoy your channel. Mahalo for your Mana'o

This video was very informative, thank you.

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

i love your videos!

In California and Hawaii, on my experience. Metes and Bounds are what we use to describe a property. Not based on natural features but known survey points. So on the parcel level the grid system is not a factor. Is this different in other places?

I intend to build my dream home in a unique location in the future, I have the location visually in mind but I have yet to find the location, and I'm sure there are going to be a lot of legal struggles with it.

I had only so many clearings on my property. And had to finding true north for my location. Then avoiding pushing too many trees over. Stump suck to deal with. Was planning being remote off grid. But they put in high speed internet on my 2 track. But electric miles away still. Had to go down to 6 feet to hit hard pack for my piers. My test fire pit hit hard pack 2 feet down. 20 degrees warm on our property compared to by lake Michigan. Actually in deer wintering complex central U.p.

Wow! The map at 5:11 shows the property that I lived at in Bozeman!

Is that the house from Le Mépris? I have wondered where that was - thanks!

@minstreljoel

2 жыл бұрын

Bingo!

Roughly 35 years ago, working for a small city, we were checking on the work done by a (contracted) legal surveyor. The curbs were being poured for a new important subdivision: just a muddy field at the time. My boss had told his boss that he thought there was an error. A few weeks later, the curbs were in, in sure enough the streets didn't line up: an significant error of about 6 feet. As we all stood and stared at the mistake, a school bus went by and some young kid yelled out the window mocking us. The entire subdivision is in error to this day although I doubt any of the people who bought houses there actually know. Surveying is normally accurate. We routinely surveyed to a millimetre accuracy or two.

I enjoyed watching this video

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Oh good!

There was an entire series on television about homes in Norway built far away from society. So for most of them I wouldn't say they were out of place, just in a different place. But I also saw this one property in Norway once (not sure if it was featured on the show though), which was built halfway up a cliff and squeezed up against a road. And to enter from the street they legit just had a rope hanging down for you to climb. But I mean they must have had some kind of alternate entrance...

*Set a timer while practising questions. You should consult your teachers for the tentative time spent on different questions. Give a lot of practice papers as well as full tests of previous year papers. It will give you an accurate idea of your speed and improvementJokes apart,you can still crack JEE if you are strong in the other two subjects. You should get qualifying marks in maths though. You can score well in the other two to maximize the total score. But try improving your maths.*

1:24 - "... the surreal juxtaposition is jarring and it's unsettling." The look better... No seriously, it actually looks way better... I don't even like that kind of boring architecture that's trying way too hard to look special, but in those surroundings it complemented their wannabe surreal wibe and really brought it together, even if just a bit. Still nothing amazing, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't like it!

In the city where I live there's a ton of old style 1800s houses and then randomly in the middle of all of it is a huge disgusting square tall apartment building making everything so bad lol

In Utrecht there is a triangular shaped modern office building in the middle of the historic inner city, much higher than the surrounding buildings, a real eyesore. Of course it cannot be torn down because it has gained protection for it's apparent architectural value.

When you include realtor's definition of location location location, which literally means one and only thing, city or county NEIGHBORHOOD LOCATION! where the money is! and nothing else! and that is the only rule a buyer needs to know regardless if he's buying an empty lot, a cottage or a grand building. It definitely doesn't mean the precise spot the Architect will place the building in order to get the sun correctly or the south winds on the right side of the building, all that is technical and will add to the value of the property. So if you eliminate the location location location as the realtors mean it, the rest of your video gives us very valuable information that we all need to know because it refers to the precise "location" of the correctly drawn building, placed in the right spot of a building lot in accordance with the city father's rules and regulations, and I enjoy it very much.

Love your videos, but leaving the tabs on the CNC cutout really bothers me.

I don't see the point of asking for discussion if none of it going to be featured in a video. PBS Spacetime and IdeaChannel do a great job with this because the creators pick comments that feature interested perspectives or clarifications. It also seems to contribute to a higher quality comments section.

you seem like a friendly ass dude even on a bad day

That backhoe at 6:30 had me so confused. I thought it was a semi-tractor with an excavator on the front bumper.

Stolen from the world of Planning, the idea of "sensitive interfaces" is great way of thinking about the how to identify the important aspects of the location in the design of a building. Could be the interface with neighbours as in privacy, overshadowing or community. It could be the interface with the street that creates a certain rhythm to the streetscape.

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing a new term to me

what about the locations of prisons, do they always have to be remote?

What about economic considerations? Things like underserved industries, people's lifestyles, and technology can all play a crucial role in the effectiveness of a building's location.

It would be interesting to watch one of your KZreads dedicated to Peter Zumthor.

@jonasvogel3539

2 жыл бұрын

The company i used to work for made furniture he designed. I was at his hq in swiss, his style is awsome.

If I would build a home and have enough money I would first want to have the rooms designed together with a interior designer so I know sizes of furniture and where I want large or small windows. And than an architect who take all these rooms and create how they logically need to be placed on a piece of land and how the exterior is going to look (together with a landscape architect). Is that ever done and is it a good idea or not and why?

@yeheasabbagh2966

2 жыл бұрын

Well technicaly architects responsible to pick where the Windows are ,what is their size ,and how many rooms can be fit in your land what is their size and what can be fit inside that rooms and of course the exterior look of the building ,interior designers responsible about the mood of the room the final place of the furniture how they look they can pick evey aspect of the interior from texture ,color ,artificial lighting , celing decoration and floor design , it is much wiser to go to the architect first then to the interior designer ,its like picking a pc (architect) then you put the programs (interior designer )that you wanna run on it

@emmar9104

2 жыл бұрын

I dont know if its ever been done but it sounds to me like a bad idea. Or, what i think will happen if you try is that you find that you'll end up changing the rooms as you and the architect attempt to place them. Professionals ackowledge it as an iterative process, so they accept that you cant avoid making different iterations. But theres also the insight that some methodical approaches to design are superior to others in that they lead to fewer iterations or dead ends before the final drawing.

In Warsaw (Poland) there is a building that has a huge hole in it. Like a big cantilever with a thin leg. Just because we have a law that require every building to recive at least few hours of Sun, in some specific day of the year (i dont rly remember which one). So because of law/location and Sun, this building just stands there with a hole in it and i find it quite funny and kinda amazing.

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Whoa that is amazing. I'll look it up! That's an interesting law.

Any other architecture and/or urban planning yt channels you recommend?

@harenterberge2632

2 жыл бұрын

City beautiful.

Woah, you used an easement diagram from my city!

Stewart, you might like Scott Tallon Walker's Goulding House, Wicklow, Ireland.

At first I thought that was the pit from Parks and Rec

What location? @0:40

That’s why most cities are built on Ancient ones or even our ancient ones with new buildings sometimes on or foundations or just old buildings re-dated ✌🏾

i liked because of the villa malaparte

Villa Malaparte is on the island of Capri

Kinda wanted to hear the technical details behind the mistake made at Dartmouth College, which opened your video. But the another question occurred to me: When a University designs a new School of Engineering or a new Faculty of Architecture, why don’t the professors do it? Or do they? Or… is it IMPOSSIBLE to stop them from meddling. I wonder if they are ever happy with the result or have the typical conservative reaction to abstract art: “mmmph. I could do better than that!”

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

The answer to the second question is that there is usual a 'conflict of interest' clause that doesn't allow faculty to work on their university's building designs...

There's a whole city built underground in the deserts of the us, Seattle maybe? Pretty interesting location.

@YSLRD

2 жыл бұрын

I think you're talking about the underground area of Las Vegas. Not really a city.

@ChrisPage68

2 жыл бұрын

There is a whole underground complex beneath Helsinki in Finland, built as a nuclear shelter.

You should look at the houses in Shaker Heights Ohio. USA.

@stewarthicks

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my, those are opulent.

this like building massive projects in Minecraft completely in survival mode and then tearing it all down at the slightest mistake

but where?

Positano, Italy.

2:05 it bothers me that he's talking about drafting, but showing video footage of someone doing circuit board design.

"But it was completed on the WRONG LOT!" Imagine visiting a piece of property you own, and someone's building a house there.

@gardenjoy5223

Жыл бұрын

Personally, I would see that as an excellent opportunity to raise the price of the lot with at least 50% and sell it to them. After all, you are forced out OR they are forced to demolish and start again.

thanks the internet now i'll never want to become an architect and actually start to respect them so many laws and considerations...

location's all about compromise

Actually rich people depend on that old location location location to buy cheap unwanted land

HELL YA HOUSTON TEXAS

Stewart: context is important for buildings. Dutch star architect Rem Koolhaas: "f**k the context" (real quote) Despite being Dutch I side with Stewart on this one.

@paxundpeace9970

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't he the guy that build houses on the water.

@harenterberge2632

2 жыл бұрын

@@paxundpeace9970 That would be Koen Olthuis, Rem Koolhaas is the guy who builds ugly glas and concrete boxes and sells them as art.

Casamela Parte owner: "What a _great_ damn view! _Well_ worth hiking in and out an hour - and - a - half each way every time I need bread and milk!" Casamela Parte owner the morning the cat trips him up and he breaks his back: "What damn fool on the planning board allowed some fool with more money than sense put their ego project someplace you've gotta be a damn army ranger to get to.!!"