I’ve heard it criticized as impractical but I love the idea of trees growing on buildings. Cool that they found a way to make it work in this case.
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Green roofs are impractical because dirt is heavy (not to mention the associated trees, plants, water, etc) and it traps moisture which damages the roof. And it's difficult to repair the roof because you have to move the soil to get to the roof. So the roof has to be extremely over-engineered to hold the weight of the green roof and not decay underneath it.
As it happens, the roof of this building is extremely over-engineered by normal standards, because normal buildings aren't designed to survive carpet bombing.
It's a wonderful repurposing.
I understand the arguments against it but I still think trees and greenery are such an important aspect of human health and wellbeing that it’s worthy of consideration in some situations. Particularly as the world continues to urbanize and densify to accommodate increasing populations, people won’t easily be able live around gardens, nature, and agriculture as they did in the past. So where else is left to restore that greenery than somewhere in or on the built environment? There are lower hanging fruits like planting more trees on the ground level but I don’t think those will be enough to reach the levels of vegetation/canopy needed for human health in areas where most of the land surface is buildings.
It may be difficult and expensive but it’s not over-engineered if it’s the best way to achieve a necessary goal.
That’s really cool, but it does look like post-apocalyptic, overgrown ruins of a prison from a sci-if game or movie.
Previously it looked like that, just without the overgrowth A^^
I spend too much time on Minecraft I thought this was a really cool shader pic 😂 it's even cooler that it's real!
It is a render, as construction is not finished atm. Hopefully it is done by the end of the year. There is construction thou.
That makes sense, because if you look at it for more than a couple of seconds, the scale is off all over the place. The trees on top make the bunker look absolutely enormous, just like it could rule over the entire city... but then you see the trees in front, which make the trees on top look like bonsais.
oh hey i went to uni in there! Great memories!
Woah that is really huge for a bunker, good use for it
That's a great project, but I miss the music store that was in there...
bought my first pair of good headphones and my beloved J Mascis Jazzmaster there
I can't be the only one who thought this was a Minecraft creation at first.
I enjoy the metaphor at least. Let's hope it works out in real life.