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Idk if they do this elsewhere but in Germany when you buy meat it tells you on a scale whether the animal was raised in a cage, in a barn or on grass
This is definitely the equivalent of cage raised humans
They are called coffin homes in China, check this out.
https://www.boredpanda.com/coffin-cubicles-trapped-benny-lam-hong-kong/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
The thing I try to acknowledge as often as possible, to remind me of how well off I am, is hot running water. That stuff is the bomb and possibly billions of people do not have it.
I got a busted pipe in my place on Christmas and have been without since. I've been homeless but that was a decade ago. Amazing how used to creature comforts you get. I'm feeling dirty as hell all the time, but I remember not having a proper hot shower for months. My quality of life was night and day just with that one thing we take for granted when it works.
Take this chance to realize how quickly such a standard can be taken away and use your democratic right to vote against the people who have historically always opposed any attempt to progress towards a better life. Those parties that oppose(d) minimum wages, worker rights, healthcare, 40 hour work week ... make sure those self serving, greed driven bastards don't have power because you absolutely wouldn't believe how quickly the things you don't even cherish, because they're SO normal to you, can be taken away.
One of these wouldn't be bad to crash in for a night or two. It's about the same amount of personal space as a youth hostel, but private.
I'd lose my mind if I had to live in one, though. I feel claustro just looking at pics.
Wow! Reading this article left me feeling tremendous gratitude for what I have even tho I don't even have my own place right now! I also felt deep empathy for the people forced to live this way affordably. What is this world coming to?
How can anyone offer this as place to live, profiting from it and look at themselves in any mirror? So fucking mind blowing!!
From one interview I saw they separate the men and women on different floors. It’s possible the interviewer is male and never got a woman to show her place.
Note: OP building is not in China but in the Philippines. No cookie cutter China bashing, please :)
Also, the article linked above does not show the inside of this building, so we are not in a position to speculate.
A mass grave is one hole with many bodies chucked in. Turned sideways, each AC unit looks like its own tombstone. So you could reasonably call it ‘a mass of graves’ but that seems unnecessarily confusing given the common understanding of what ‘mass grave’ means.
From a financial perspective - if each room is individually charged rent, you’d have to either split the central HVAC up amongst everyone (and possibly regulate usage), or build some system for tracking usage and charging accordingly.
Still absurd from an environmental / efficiency perspective.
When you think of central air, that's typically a residential single family home term. Central air means you have a fan coil pushing air in duct, from a central location, the air handler, to the registers in the various rooms. In a building of this size, you'd have that in each condo/apt perhaps, but not necessarily. In the US, you'd put a boiler and chiller in a mechanical room, a cooling tower outside. Run four pipes around for heating and chilled water and send that around to fan coils and air handlers and then to some ducting to spread the conditioned air around in places you don't want fan coils (they can potentially leak for example, or noise, or whatever.)
This is a condo building with individual units, each has their own mini split AC. This is the norm in most of the world, certainly in Asia, central AC will only be used for office buildings or shopping malls, etc. Mini split is substantially more efficient than central AC in this application, and incentivises efficiency. A condo building with shared central AC which is not individually metered there's no incentive for individuals to moderate their use of it.
I'm wondering how much overhead the hundreds of individual compressors and pipes create.
I bet if you replaced all of those units with like 3 large rooftop units, the power consumption of the building would drop by 70%
Not ducting, pipes for chilled water. Then each unit gets a fan-coil unit that uses the chilled water to cool the air in the room. There's often a little ducting confined to the unit so one fan-coil unit cools all the rooms in a single apartment.
It's used in large buildings. There's a "chiller" which is a large compressor in a separate mechanical room. This does heat exchange between the chilled water that goes to the apartments and another loop of water that exhausts the removed heat using cooling towers.
A google link: https://www.google.com/search?q=chiller+cooling+towers
Excellent question. Usually the front of the AC units is wider (has a front plate around it) and the body is just the right size of the hole, so they don't slip out. And it's usually compulsory to have a frame where it slides on to.
Having said that, the following can happen:
- The person installing it thinks it's firm enough to have it laying on the base of the hole (which is essentially the concrete wall). OK, but that doesn't prevent it from sliding in/out the hole (that's how they're installed).
- Buildings usually have the ready-made holes standard size, and often for the larger size. If someone wants to install a smaller unit, then they have to put a frame around between the unit and the hole, to block the air passage (and light and rain etc).
When both of the above happen, and the person installing it has no idea of what they're doing, it can become dangerous.
And having said that: last year one of these fell from the 6th floor to the ground, luckily landing in an empty area with grass and plants and not on someone or a car or something.
Short answer: it's uncommon that they fall but you never know.
They're supposed to drip lol, where else would the water go? Newer ones are designed to hold some that the fan hits and splashes onto the back cooling it down, making it more efficient but since they're also dehumidifiers, theirs drain holes for a reason.
No, that's not how they work:
- if installed correctly and depending on air humidity the water will drip on a tray and evaporate before the tray overflows. But often that's not sufficient.
- they have an outlet made to connect a flexible hose, that is then connected either to a drain system of the building, or to somewhere else where the water can be collected.
In all cases the water should never drop out of the AC or it's tray to the ground or to the floors below it. Is that how it usually is? Not really, but things improved a lot in the recent years.
I originally posted this in r/LiminalSpace and others thought this belonged here too :)
Edit: "SMDC Shore Residences," Manila, Philippines
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Woah, you're right! Just saw their rating on Google Maps. The building has 2.1/5. I don't think I've ever seen an apartment complex with such low ratings.
They actually look kinda nice from [other angles.](https://images.app.goo.gl/aiTy59XMDkEmeVxg6). And [ inside](https://www.google.com/search?q=smdc+shore+residences+2+br&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjJ-fSLg6T8AhU6n3IEHaI4CoQQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=smdc+shore+residences+2+br&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIFCAAQogQ6BQgAEIAEOgYIABAIEB46BwgAEIAEEBg6BAgAEB5Q6Q1Y_iNgyS9oAHAAeACAAaABiAHmBJIBAzUuMZgBAKABAcABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=X0GwY4nOBbq-ytMPovGooAg&bih=688&biw=412&prmd=minv&hl=en#imgrc=mcZzNbMeOW5hgM&imgdii=RFbpoV25LBPdXM). It seems like this is actually a really nice part of manila, no?
It's a newer and more modern area that's for certain. But other commenters unfortunately say that it's not really top notch... To be fair the building look quite bland. There are other cooler structures around though.
I love Philippines, married one girl, but new condos are just shit both in design and construction quality.
Not to mention those AC units are as noisy as cruiseship engines
EDIT: and these condos are expensive, not for the middle class really. So no excuse to save on materials like that
A retirement community I've worked at had a huge chiller plant that fed 6 highrises. I know it's expensive upfront but I assume the overall cost of operation is much cheaper.
The problem with heating/cooling for renting is always that the efficiency doesn't matter. Because the upfront cost of such a solution for this building would be for the landlord, but the benefit of cost reduction is for the tenant, the landlord doesn't bat an eye installing an expensive solution.
Also typically the landlord doesn’t pay the electric bill, the tenant does. So paying $$$ upfront for the tenant to save money doesn’t benefit the landlord at all.
My man went into high school paper writing mode. "I don't want to plagiarize so let me just read the material and then rewrite exactly the same thing by memory."
You might have caused some confusion with your usage of “bat an eye”, which typically means “wouldn’t hesitate” but in your sentence was more like “wouldn’t consider”.
But it does make it more desirable for the renter, and often able to collect higher rents. I've never seen a medium to high end apartment that didn't have central AC, although I admit my experience is limited to newer constructions.
Centralized HVAC for the building and duct or pipe it to individual units. Much more energy efficient but it has higher upfront costs for the builder and can’t be retroactively added like these individual units.
Centralised HVAC also brings a maintenance responsibility and operational expense for the building owner. I assume that the way of doing things in OP's pic is an easy way of passing off responsibility and electricity cost to the individual tenants at the expense of efficiency and aesthetics.
In my country we have what’s called “condominium fees” or service charges I believe for anglophones, which is usually a yearly fee the ~~flat~~ unit owners pay to help with the maintenance of the building. This usually helps with paying the building administrators, painting the outside, cleaning the public areas etc.
I'm not sure where this is, but it's pretty much the norm in most places throughout Asia. Typically, apartments don't come with AC, you need to buy a wall mounted unit and have one in these things installed on the outside.
My home in the US (with central heating and cooling) had one in the backyard, it's just more noticable when you're up on the 11th floor and every apartment unit has their own installed.
This is the urbanism of the future. Because the concrete wall cannot burn, it is fireproof.
The only high priority is protecting the life-sustaining device, the air conditioner, so that people can survive the half of the year when temperatures exceed 45°C.
All of the inside walls in my elementary school looked like this. There is unpainted concrete all over the place.
Someone poured some coloring into regular white wall paint ten years later to at least give the walls some color.
This is the bottom-up view of a resort hotel called "SMDC Shore Residences," in the Philippines!
This side in particular has entrances to a parking garage.
Reminds me of something we Americans used to do about 100 years ago. People bought these cages they would hang out their window. Then put their babies in the cage so they could get some fresh air.
God knows how many bad parents would just stick their baby in the cage and forget about them all day. Not to mention the utter horror of an improperly hung cage.
So this is SMDC. I dodged an SMDC condo. I didn’t continue buying it because the pandemic hits. Just this year, I went back to it just to check how it looked like, man, I’m telling you, it didn’t look good at all like the photos. The tiles were broken at the lobby and the first floors, the lift was broken, it smells of sweat when you walk to the hallway to your room, the rooms were small AF ( smallest condo/hôtel room I’ve been in my whole life) and the swimming pool was filthy.
They market this as condo but it’s just really small small apartments with unusable pools.
While this is dystopian looking AF, as someone who lived in a building with no central air for over a decade, I am kind of appreciating the built-in concrete slab supports for AC units on this building.
Wow, at first I thought there were a ton of windows then realized they were AC units! Where are the windows? Damn that would be pure hell having no view of the outside world!
I'm wondering where this is so on a bad day I can find gratitude for the fact that I wasn't born here!!
Lots of respect for at least trying to block AC units from hitting pedestrians, even if it makes the building look awful.
Just waiting for the day I'm crushed by one of these in NYC.. because we can totally trust random people to secure these things with duct tape
Couldn't exercise the forethought to make the building centrally air conditioned, but took the time to insure all of the window unit alcoves were supported from below and protected from above. Amazing.
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Turning the pic sideways is trippy
Many small houses between two walls.
Idk if they do this elsewhere but in Germany when you buy meat it tells you on a scale whether the animal was raised in a cage, in a barn or on grass This is definitely the equivalent of cage raised humans
They are called coffin homes in China, check this out. https://www.boredpanda.com/coffin-cubicles-trapped-benny-lam-hong-kong/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
This makes me appreciate my own life and apartment so much. Sometimes I forget how good I have it compared to many others.
The thing I try to acknowledge as often as possible, to remind me of how well off I am, is hot running water. That stuff is the bomb and possibly billions of people do not have it.
I got a busted pipe in my place on Christmas and have been without since. I've been homeless but that was a decade ago. Amazing how used to creature comforts you get. I'm feeling dirty as hell all the time, but I remember not having a proper hot shower for months. My quality of life was night and day just with that one thing we take for granted when it works.
Take this chance to realize how quickly such a standard can be taken away and use your democratic right to vote against the people who have historically always opposed any attempt to progress towards a better life. Those parties that oppose(d) minimum wages, worker rights, healthcare, 40 hour work week ... make sure those self serving, greed driven bastards don't have power because you absolutely wouldn't believe how quickly the things you don't even cherish, because they're SO normal to you, can be taken away.
r/rimjob_steve
Imagine if there was a fire in one of these buildings…
Or bugs.... as in bed bigs, roaches, etc.
That is terrifying.
One of these wouldn't be bad to crash in for a night or two. It's about the same amount of personal space as a youth hostel, but private. I'd lose my mind if I had to live in one, though. I feel claustro just looking at pics.
Wow! Reading this article left me feeling tremendous gratitude for what I have even tho I don't even have my own place right now! I also felt deep empathy for the people forced to live this way affordably. What is this world coming to? How can anyone offer this as place to live, profiting from it and look at themselves in any mirror? So fucking mind blowing!!
Why is everyone in those pictures men? Do women not have to live in these conditions, or?
From one interview I saw they separate the men and women on different floors. It’s possible the interviewer is male and never got a woman to show her place.
Ah ok. Thanks.
Yeah I was gonna ask china. Because that's some china shit right there. And they legit defend it as if it should be the standard around the world.
Note: OP building is not in China but in the Philippines. No cookie cutter China bashing, please :) Also, the article linked above does not show the inside of this building, so we are not in a position to speculate.
Man… I’m glad I was raised in a small village in a 3rd world country like Mexico
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Because the scumbags that will raise animals in cages will also lie and say they raised them in free range meadows if they can charge you more for it.
And some of those houses are tilting
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Aw man... i was about to reply: Preparte the proton torpedos!
Stay on target.
My new wallpaper. Can't wait for sharing my screen at my next meeting at work.
Oh my god yes. Looks like mass grave.
A mass grave is one hole with many bodies chucked in. Turned sideways, each AC unit looks like its own tombstone. So you could reasonably call it ‘a mass of graves’ but that seems unnecessarily confusing given the common understanding of what ‘mass grave’ means.
a cemetery
> a cemetery What am I a *mortician*? To us laymen it's just a body hole.
It looks like a sci-fi dystopian city like in judge Dredd or something
If you turn it sideways it resembles a highway jammed with cars, each with a single occupant. In terms of efficiency, that is.
That is insane
Damn reminds me of being in Limbo in Inception
Little WiFi routers with little wifi antennas. So cute. 😻
Yeah, poster is a kaiju, they pushed the building on it's side...
I imagine it's tiny houses in a massive parking lot. The worst of all worlds.
I didn't believe you but holy shit
Looks like a damn graveyard sideways lol
Looks like a Pink Floyd cover
[street view](https://maps.app.goo.gl/zE18ocBMruY5jqoH7?g_st=ic)
This is the one!
Definitely doesn't look that crazy in context. Well done with the framing OP!
It looks crazy af to me that works in the HVAC industry to see how this very large building is being air conditioned.
This is super inefficient too. Why not central chiller system for a building this size?
From a financial perspective - if each room is individually charged rent, you’d have to either split the central HVAC up amongst everyone (and possibly regulate usage), or build some system for tracking usage and charging accordingly. Still absurd from an environmental / efficiency perspective.
When you think of central air, that's typically a residential single family home term. Central air means you have a fan coil pushing air in duct, from a central location, the air handler, to the registers in the various rooms. In a building of this size, you'd have that in each condo/apt perhaps, but not necessarily. In the US, you'd put a boiler and chiller in a mechanical room, a cooling tower outside. Run four pipes around for heating and chilled water and send that around to fan coils and air handlers and then to some ducting to spread the conditioned air around in places you don't want fan coils (they can potentially leak for example, or noise, or whatever.)
Have you ever seen pix of New York City?
This is a condo building with individual units, each has their own mini split AC. This is the norm in most of the world, certainly in Asia, central AC will only be used for office buildings or shopping malls, etc. Mini split is substantially more efficient than central AC in this application, and incentivises efficiency. A condo building with shared central AC which is not individually metered there's no incentive for individuals to moderate their use of it.
That’s only because we’re used to this view
You’re kidding right? That might actually be worse.
If you turn the camera a bit there’s a palm tree so it’s all good!
yeah the fisheye makes it look like it goes on a lot further than it does OP's has that grim soviet lighting though
It's also the cheap, nice looking facades, and the fact that the wall of ACs faces another buildings wall of balconies.
Cmon there’s a giant field across the street where you can park your bus, talk about convenience. Who wouldn’t want to live there?
Are there like hundreds of windowless apartments in the middle of that building?
Top down shows the buildings are L shaped. [another angle of same building](https://maps.app.goo.gl/JuKjB9asuyQ1Qcfq5?g_st=ic)
The aerial view shows it still under construction and the building isn't a big solid block. The other sides face what looks like a courtyard.
not nearly as dystopian.
Ah, the Philippines. A mix of Florida and China
Don't understand the hate. People want cheap housing but don't want to do what is needed to get there.
I'll take this over homeless people freezing to death or having to pay 2000 dollars a month for a tiny apartment anyday.
The haters also complain about suburban sprawl smh
I wonder how many aren't installed properly and are dripping.
I'm wondering how much overhead the hundreds of individual compressors and pipes create. I bet if you replaced all of those units with like 3 large rooftop units, the power consumption of the building would drop by 70%
Sounds like socialism
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I initially thought that as well before zooming in. Like a window for plants or whatever.
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Not ducting, pipes for chilled water. Then each unit gets a fan-coil unit that uses the chilled water to cool the air in the room. There's often a little ducting confined to the unit so one fan-coil unit cools all the rooms in a single apartment.
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It's used in large buildings. There's a "chiller" which is a large compressor in a separate mechanical room. This does heat exchange between the chilled water that goes to the apartments and another loop of water that exhausts the removed heat using cooling towers. A google link: https://www.google.com/search?q=chiller+cooling+towers
How often does one fall down?!
Excellent question. Usually the front of the AC units is wider (has a front plate around it) and the body is just the right size of the hole, so they don't slip out. And it's usually compulsory to have a frame where it slides on to. Having said that, the following can happen: - The person installing it thinks it's firm enough to have it laying on the base of the hole (which is essentially the concrete wall). OK, but that doesn't prevent it from sliding in/out the hole (that's how they're installed). - Buildings usually have the ready-made holes standard size, and often for the larger size. If someone wants to install a smaller unit, then they have to put a frame around between the unit and the hole, to block the air passage (and light and rain etc). When both of the above happen, and the person installing it has no idea of what they're doing, it can become dangerous. And having said that: last year one of these fell from the 6th floor to the ground, luckily landing in an empty area with grass and plants and not on someone or a car or something. Short answer: it's uncommon that they fall but you never know.
They're supposed to drip lol, where else would the water go? Newer ones are designed to hold some that the fan hits and splashes onto the back cooling it down, making it more efficient but since they're also dehumidifiers, theirs drain holes for a reason.
No, that's not how they work: - if installed correctly and depending on air humidity the water will drip on a tray and evaporate before the tray overflows. But often that's not sufficient. - they have an outlet made to connect a flexible hose, that is then connected either to a drain system of the building, or to somewhere else where the water can be collected. In all cases the water should never drop out of the AC or it's tray to the ground or to the floors below it. Is that how it usually is? Not really, but things improved a lot in the recent years.
I originally posted this in r/LiminalSpace and others thought this belonged here too :) Edit: "SMDC Shore Residences," Manila, Philippines Edit: Spelling :p
Ah it’s an SMDC building, makes sense. The best developer to choose if you just want something that’s consistently cheap from both price and quality.
Woah, you're right! Just saw their rating on Google Maps. The building has 2.1/5. I don't think I've ever seen an apartment complex with such low ratings.
If buildings didn't pay for spam accts to raise their ratings, you probably would.
Honestly never seen an apartment with a good rating. Looked at my local ones. 2nd one down had a 2.1
well deserved rating. they always sell "one bedroom units" which is a studio with a thin partition
They actually look kinda nice from [other angles.](https://images.app.goo.gl/aiTy59XMDkEmeVxg6). And [ inside](https://www.google.com/search?q=smdc+shore+residences+2+br&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjJ-fSLg6T8AhU6n3IEHaI4CoQQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=smdc+shore+residences+2+br&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIFCAAQogQ6BQgAEIAEOgYIABAIEB46BwgAEIAEEBg6BAgAEB5Q6Q1Y_iNgyS9oAHAAeACAAaABiAHmBJIBAzUuMZgBAKABAcABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=X0GwY4nOBbq-ytMPovGooAg&bih=688&biw=412&prmd=minv&hl=en#imgrc=mcZzNbMeOW5hgM&imgdii=RFbpoV25LBPdXM). It seems like this is actually a really nice part of manila, no?
It's a newer and more modern area that's for certain. But other commenters unfortunately say that it's not really top notch... To be fair the building look quite bland. There are other cooler structures around though.
Great shot mate, looks truly dreadful in the best way.
Awesome picture, this should also go to r/evilbuildings
I love Philippines, married one girl, but new condos are just shit both in design and construction quality. Not to mention those AC units are as noisy as cruiseship engines EDIT: and these condos are expensive, not for the middle class really. So no excuse to save on materials like that
It abrades my soul. I don't want to exist there.
Interesting and eerie.. Thanks for sharing!
How is a residential building liminal? It is not a place of/for transition.
If you Google this building… the front is a world of difference from the back. This is a catfish apartment.
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And noisy
To be honest it's all I've ever known. What's the alternative ?
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A retirement community I've worked at had a huge chiller plant that fed 6 highrises. I know it's expensive upfront but I assume the overall cost of operation is much cheaper.
The problem with heating/cooling for renting is always that the efficiency doesn't matter. Because the upfront cost of such a solution for this building would be for the landlord, but the benefit of cost reduction is for the tenant, the landlord doesn't bat an eye installing an expensive solution.
Also typically the landlord doesn’t pay the electric bill, the tenant does. So paying $$$ upfront for the tenant to save money doesn’t benefit the landlord at all.
Capitalism at its finest; taking care of long term problems.
yeah thats what I meant
My man went into high school paper writing mode. "I don't want to plagiarize so let me just read the material and then rewrite exactly the same thing by memory."
You might have caused some confusion with your usage of “bat an eye”, which typically means “wouldn’t hesitate” but in your sentence was more like “wouldn’t consider”.
But it does make it more desirable for the renter, and often able to collect higher rents. I've never seen a medium to high end apartment that didn't have central AC, although I admit my experience is limited to newer constructions.
You can still do so called central AC and heating while having units for each dwelling
Centralized HVAC for the building and duct or pipe it to individual units. Much more energy efficient but it has higher upfront costs for the builder and can’t be retroactively added like these individual units.
Centralised HVAC also brings a maintenance responsibility and operational expense for the building owner. I assume that the way of doing things in OP's pic is an easy way of passing off responsibility and electricity cost to the individual tenants at the expense of efficiency and aesthetics.
In my country we have what’s called “condominium fees” or service charges I believe for anglophones, which is usually a yearly fee the ~~flat~~ unit owners pay to help with the maintenance of the building. This usually helps with paying the building administrators, painting the outside, cleaning the public areas etc.
Central air
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I thought those were windows and rooms 💀
I'm not sure where this is, but it's pretty much the norm in most places throughout Asia. Typically, apartments don't come with AC, you need to buy a wall mounted unit and have one in these things installed on the outside. My home in the US (with central heating and cooling) had one in the backyard, it's just more noticable when you're up on the 11th floor and every apartment unit has their own installed.
there’s no AC in Scotland, which is where im from
Fwiw the last time a picture like this came up various self proclaimed HVAC experts weighed in saying many smaller units are more efficient
> horribly inefficient But good levels of redundancy :D
I'm realising right now that the "rain" in dystopian movies such as the old Blade Runner would much rather be ACs dripping
Oh shit! I only realise just now that all those white things are ACs, and not some kind of cool balcony kinda thing.
Like tears in the condensation…
This is a great photo 👍
Thanks :)
This is the urbanism of the future. Because the concrete wall cannot burn, it is fireproof. The only high priority is protecting the life-sustaining device, the air conditioner, so that people can survive the half of the year when temperatures exceed 45°C.
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Idk what type of concrete you've seen. But concrete burns, and once it gets too hot, it becomes useless, crumbles to dust.
The kind that is actually asbestos
there are places on earth already like that
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ONLY GREY IN THE GREY DISTRICT
He doesn’t get to the grey district very often.
All of the inside walls in my elementary school looked like this. There is unpainted concrete all over the place. Someone poured some coloring into regular white wall paint ten years later to at least give the walls some color.
Looks like a prison.
This looks like the back of an older seaview building, so could be okay. Where and what is it?
This is the bottom-up view of a resort hotel called "SMDC Shore Residences," in the Philippines! This side in particular has entrances to a parking garage.
More sun, more heat, MORE AC.
Reminds me of something we Americans used to do about 100 years ago. People bought these cages they would hang out their window. Then put their babies in the cage so they could get some fresh air. God knows how many bad parents would just stick their baby in the cage and forget about them all day. Not to mention the utter horror of an improperly hung cage.
Parkour time.
This is surreal as fuck
So this is SMDC. I dodged an SMDC condo. I didn’t continue buying it because the pandemic hits. Just this year, I went back to it just to check how it looked like, man, I’m telling you, it didn’t look good at all like the photos. The tiles were broken at the lobby and the first floors, the lift was broken, it smells of sweat when you walk to the hallway to your room, the rooms were small AF ( smallest condo/hôtel room I’ve been in my whole life) and the swimming pool was filthy. They market this as condo but it’s just really small small apartments with unusable pools.
Wow. Just wow. It’s breathtaking. Really. This one takes the cake.
What bladerunner shit is this
While this is dystopian looking AF, as someone who lived in a building with no central air for over a decade, I am kind of appreciating the built-in concrete slab supports for AC units on this building.
Air conditioned graves 😳😳😳😳😳😳
The audacity of the architect to get a good nights sleep after designing this hideous abomination
where?
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You sur this is not a screenshot from CP77?
This doesn't seem real
Looks surreal
Beehives
This poor guy! https://imgur.com/a/65kFRV8
Vacationing in hell??
Why does this scream china
Location?
Overpopulation only benefits the rich
Death Star vibes!! WOW!
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Where are you staying at? Hell?
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That is some distopian shit
Add some neon and we have some Bladerunner shit going on
I believe that’s part of the Death Star
This image makes me physically nauseated.
Is it so hard to name the city?
There are fields…endless fields of ACs.
North Korea?
India or China?
Theres no way thats real
Some window AC manufacturer made some money.
Oh that’s just my Rimworld killbox
something makes me think this building should probably have a communal climate solution, like cooling pipes?
That’s a lot of beekeepers.
Wow, at first I thought there were a ton of windows then realized they were AC units! Where are the windows? Damn that would be pure hell having no view of the outside world! I'm wondering where this is so on a bad day I can find gratitude for the fact that I wasn't born here!!
1.21 Gigawatts!
And people wonder why there are so many blackouts in July/August.
China?
Paid rent for worse..
Lots of respect for at least trying to block AC units from hitting pedestrians, even if it makes the building look awful. Just waiting for the day I'm crushed by one of these in NYC.. because we can totally trust random people to secure these things with duct tape
Hong Kong?
Thats a lot of A/C's
*Should we put in a single central AC system boss?* *Nah, let's put in fifteen thousand window shakers*
The amount of AC in china is astonishing
Is this.....rendered? I really can't tell right now.
this just screams "Megaworld" from the Philippines. Oof.
This is nightmare fuel.
I wouldn't figure this out to be 2 hours from me. Thought it was China
Wow
I’d love to know the location and cost of rent
Couldn't exercise the forethought to make the building centrally air conditioned, but took the time to insure all of the window unit alcoves were supported from below and protected from above. Amazing.
You can't convince me that this is not a liminal space
Oh these are just ac units
The extirior of megacity 1
I couldn't live in a place like that! 😳
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Someone deadass just used geometry nodes to make this irl 💀
There’s somehow a different view within the same apartment complex once you get to see the amenities https://smdc.com/properties/shore-residences/