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“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’.”

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      5 months ago

      Well if we’re talking fully grown oak trees for some stupid reason it’d be heavy, but most of the plants people point at in these things would be light as fuck. The dirt for the planters would probably be heavier.

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      5 months ago

      Plants + dirt + water = significant additional weight to consider when designing a building for the people and their furniture…

      Buildings today are already being designed with only the bare essentials in mind, they aren’t even built with safety in mind only cost effectiveness (see Grenfell and million other buildings like it that should be condemned).

      I never said it can’t be done, but the person I replied to asked what the downside is, and from a developers’ point of view, that will be it.

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          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.

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        5 months ago

        Depends on the plants…

        Also… Humans are mostly water as well if you go by that. I know my balcony supports 3,2 (+ the required tolerance) metric Tons of weight on a area of 10 square meters.

        I could plant a tree there. Probably more than one. And these building concepts are rather about small plants, so the weight shouldn’t be a problem if you build with Reinforced Concrete like a normal person.

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          5 months ago

          Except that plants grow… and grow, and grow. Unless they’re maintained, which takes additional labor and people and infrastructure to handle, all of which adds even more weight.

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            5 months ago

            As said, you don’t need to use trees or gigantic plants, use Twiners and shrubs, they cover the whole facade and don’t way that much, yet they do the same, if not a better job at keeping the building cool and the air cleaner. They don’t need much maintenance and they don’t grow indefinitely, if the plant cant reach more facade it stops, only thing is you have to regularly cut the plants around the windows, wich isn’t a gigantic problem.