At least he is forming concrete opinions

Must not know about asphalt yet...

I really wonder how he would feel about Roman concrete.

This post kinda feels like op is ridiculing autism with a probably made up story. Hyperfixation is a thing with autists but they don't only talk about one topic and they shut up from time to time too. Autists are more than their hyperfixations, they're humans.

Autist here, while brick houses are nice, I actually own a 100+yo one, they're also not the most ideal material for anything bigger that a midrise.

Wanted to have better insulation for shits and giggles? We have a tool for that: putting proper insulation on the concrete.

Don't know why, but I totally get this. Like, 100%, I just have it as a general feeling of disgust that I can ignore.

Edit: specifically cement blocks like the one pictured. That exact shape and texture of cement is the worst for me.

honestly I love bricks and hate concrete blocks.

btw what's the most (not necessarily among these two) sustainable building material, lemmings?

Bullshit concrete is inferior to brick. The Romans used concrete. 😤

I have a similar thing with flat roofs. They are terrible. When you are 5 years old, you already learn to draw houses with a pointy roof. The pointy roof has been invented about a 100 times in history, as people were looking for the best shape. The wave shaped roof tile with 2 waves per tile has been invented about 3 times in history as people were looking for the best shape. The advantages of a pointy roof over a flat roof:

• Rain flows off. Yes, you can give a flat roof a small inclination, but rain will not flow as well, and if your roof tilts a small bit during the decades, it can become horizontal again.
• Snow falls off, reducing the chance that the roof collapses under the weight of heavy snow.
• It is lighter and cheaper, as you can use thinner materials. This is because pointy is a stronger shape than flat.
• It gives more interior space.
• It allows more sunlight to reach the street.
• It has a smaller area-to-vloume-ratio through with heat can escape.
• Solar panels get a higher efficiency.
• It allows the roof to be made out of wavy roof tiles which provide the following advantages:
• Roofs designed with wavy roof tiles can be constructed when it rains.
• When a tile breaks, you can easily replace it, without having to cut it loose from the tiles next to it.
• Roof tiles do not fracture upon an uneven heat distribution. Meanwhile, the advantages of flat roofs are:
• If you design an apartment building, you can copy and paste the interior. (Thus less work for the architect.)
• A horizontal line is one segment less to draw compared to two diagonals. (Thus less work for the architect.)
• If a city has the same height restrictions for flat roofed buildings as for pointy roofed buildings, and the architect is too lazy to go to the city council to explain to them that that doesn't make sense, the architect can design a building with more volume by making the roof flat. In other words: the only reason any architect would design a building with a flat roof is because they are either lazy or they have no idea what they are doing.

They better have concrete evidence of these claims tho

Concrete is a major driver of CO2 emissions. Fuck concrete.

Based

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concrete

Okay I am a big fan of brutalist architecture. Guess I am in the minority... I feel the philosophy behind it is just being wildly misunderstood.

Modern and brutalist architecture can have that effect on people. Fuck concrete, and fuck neo-imperialist colonial architecture.

Concrete is horrible for the environment and its fucked up global emissions of buildings and architecture. (Cement production alone constitutes 8% of global emissions, not considering its inefficiency in thermal lifecycles of a building and ultimate un-renewable waste). It is in fact not the best fit for every circumstance.

One shoe fits all architecture trends have effectively killed vernacular wisdom and climate conscious local innovation. Favoring “cheap” garbage that jacks up costs in other sectors, damages climate and ignores localized need, requiring complex, often power-hungry, solutions like extensive BAS to try and counterbalance their piss poor application.

(For those unaware modern buildings when all is said and done account for over 40% of global emissions. And the heating/cooling systems far outpace keeping the lights on in terms of energy consumption (something like 2/3 of the total buildings demands over time). Tackling that behemoth number is going to take a multifaceted approach but the importance of materials and place-specific design cannot be understated.)

• sincerely, someone whose installed one too many motors for automated blinds and slapdash bandaid HVAC solutions.

I love autism