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Engineers makes every architect's dream possible
#engineering #architecture
Nov 27, 2019 2:39 PM
avr0cky
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#engineering #architecture
MarkOfTheCovenant
Fuck all the haters, I love it.
dekket
Engineers really should want to solve problems though. I sure AF do.
JinxiaoKlauz
it's like this.
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TheTripleLindy
wheresmymoneydenny
Seems practical
reverendleonard
I'd be more proud of my drawing hand
APaleBean
Pyramid Head approves.
Cyraider
While I appreciate imagination. If tax payers have to foot some of the bill, stop fkin doing this. I especially hate going to hospitals with millions spent on looking pretty and always confusing. Just make a god damn simple design that doesn’t literally cost patients an arm and a leg to go there.
Tigersarejustbigkitties
doofenshmirtz evil incorporated.
Veraatje01
As someone studying for interior design, I would kill to have a proper education when it comes to how things are actually built.
DixieCross
Don't most architects have a civil or mechanical engineering degree?
mmfrancis
It takes Engineers to make architects dreams come true
jinglejewboy
And an engineers dream is a technicians nightmare.
hawkhandsaw
I'm an architect. Wouldn't you prefer the term "an engineer's challenge to achieve greatness?"
NikeRich
Nothing that comes out of design schools is really intended to be buildable. Architecture school teaches design, practice teaches reality.
SgtThunderfistMD
“I keep telling you! I drive trains! Stop giving me your blueprints!” - engineer probably.
davebeastly
Skyberscraper?
th3grimlin
Used to be a plane mechanic, now work in construction. I have a healthy hatred of both architects and engineers now.
powderedwigs
I remember studying engineering my professor said “Our job is to tell architects that what they made won’t work.”
Artydog6000
This is clearly a student project, so whats with crapping all over a experimental design by someone learning the craft? Jeez.
Misteree8
Because its not a grade schoolers project. Its an adult in uni/college learning about building urban infrastructure. Experimentation is grea
Misteree8
/2 t. Critque and critisim is also good. College is the best place to do both with little real world consequences.
mechengineer1991
I dunno, I know a structural engineer who would get a hard on for a project like this lol
Pseudosim
After a certain point, something like this is challenge to overcome. Anything can be done with sufficiently applied engeneering.
TotallyNotTyler
Well good luck to whoever builds it, I'm gonna pass
freegallegal
We are Sven!!
CityYeti
That big chunk in the middle makes it look dumb. The chunk that's right on top of it is so small, no one would have any view
johnson47
Unless the roof of the big chunk becomes their patio?
CityYeti
whiskeywonka
meh this wouldn't even be that hard to build. 28 or 30 floors plus the 'greenhouse'. look at the buildings in Dubai
DavidBrooker
This isn't that bad. If it's a steel frame building, the engineering is really straightforward. None of the cantilevers are that large, 1/2
Swansatron
The people that will actually hate this job are the glass cutters.
SimpleJack35
Not really most are rectangles
Swansatron
It’s the size. My best friend works with glass and tells me her horror stories of working alone with giant panes.
SimpleJack35
I also work with glass and oversized is a pane
DavidBrooker
and there's a uniform section at the rear for your service core. Construction will be expensive, though. 2/2
Kevcah
Natural frequencies might be a pain on the ends of the cantilevers. They'll be bouncy floors
imcurrentlyatabar
Also the florbits get wiry & gnawgaws are trouble when they get too lateral. (I have no idea what you’re saying but I’m glad y’all do. +1)
ThisUserNameReallySucks
Engineers make every mechanics dream a nightmare.
avr0cky
You have a valid point
Deleteded
GodEmperor0fMankind
Both are Satan to the people doing the actual construction.
Pandi66
But eff structural engineers especially
IIcuteIVu
Yes. The practical application experience is lacking. Just experienced an ass of an engineer for a gas meter relocation project.
varsipieru
Just letting you know I upvoted your comment to 666 points. Seemed appropriate.
wross8888
Cause they’re all named Jesús
JanetheFonda
The real MVPs
FoxySpirit
Or the people trying to actually live in that thing. Daylight distribution is horrible.
euphoricopportunity
Generally way too much light.
thebeardofzeu5
As an engineer working in NYC at the construction level, FUCK design engineers
purgethefilthyheretics
Then comes the people who have to do the maintenance
ProphetofEntropy
oh, they allowed room for an "adult" to get in, just, how bout equipment? not really?..
ImgursLibertarian
As an engineer we're just as pissed at our universities. I didn't need to learn greens theorem, or entropy. I needed to learn a 2x4 isn't..
HungarianHippos16
Go to a hardware store with a measuring tape
AtomicCometLauncher
I've seen and worked both sides of engineering; I think every engineer needs to work ops/construction engineering before design.
Canuckleheads
The classic disconnect between engineers and labourers
PoorBoyChevelle
What do you mean an 8" duct won't fit in a 4" wall? Try harder!
wooooooowzaaaa
Oh wow I just learned greens theorem
NapoleonDynOmite
You're a lot smarter than I am. I can't even figure out how it's applied and to what
wooooooowzaaaa
Honestly, I just started the topic so I'm not as confident about what I'm doing with it yet
wooooooowzaaaa
I think it related to magnetic and electric flux but this is the very hard set math definition which kinda means nothing to me
Gamergrl09
What’s green’s theorem? Calc 3 prof said he couldn’t teach it because we ran out of time but we needed to know it for future classes
wooooooowzaaaa
I can only give a very basic explanation since we started covering it but
wooooooowzaaaa
Also, I think it more involves flux, like electric flux and magnetic flux which I'm more confident with but Idk math side of it
wooooooowzaaaa
It gives the relationship between a like integral around a simple closed curve C and a double integral over the plane region D bounded by C
ImgursLibertarian
2" thick, and that i need to design based on stock available at McMastercarr.
arkangelbb
My eagle project taught me more about engineering than my engineering degree did.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
You needed a school with better labs. At our school, theory was taught by theorists, but labs were taught by working engineers.
SeeYaLaterMethamphetaGator
Well that's stupid that they didn't teach you that lol
NacLac
McMaster has the cleanest website I've ever used. It's really something how they manage to keep it so minimal and highly functional
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Ever see their paper catalogs?
Beezlebubble
I work in manufacturing for aerospace and this comes up with metal stuff ALL the time
Dranton12
One of the funniest things I had to teach an architect was that 2x doesn’t mean 2x.
Icomeheretoprocrastinate
As a former architecture student and currently working in architecture. They did teach me that. I suppose it’s the school you attend fault
SgtJohnsonsJohnson
As a fellow civil engineer i agree. They even had me take fluff courses like archeology and mythology. College is such a scam.
zimirken
Learned that private healthcare is the union's fault back in the 50s.
CyborgL
Chemical engineer here... Why the f*ck did I learn quantum mechanics? My job is just teaching people 6th grade science.
bshodokai
EE here, I don't use my thermo Dynamics or advanced calculus.... Ever
Muttons1337
On the one hand, it could be nice to be a rounded out individual, but on the other hand that costs money.
SgtJohnsonsJohnson
"well-rounded" belongs in highschools. I went to college to learn engineering. I could've gotten it in 2years, but they make it 4 with B.S.
euphoricopportunity
Well, the ideas behind gen ed requirements assume that college is about overall education, not preparing for a particular career.
sturmhauke
Trade schools have been derided in the US for a long time now. Probably because they aren't as profitable. All part of the scam.
LFLz
That’s actually really funny. I worked on a house built in the late 1800’s the old boards we reused were actually 2 inches
Jaymezians
Rough cut. That shits really good at giving you splinters.
BreakTheCircle
Newer ones are planed so they’re about a quarter inch thinner
pogon
This describes my walls. Also no standard stud spacing, real plaster on lath, not sheetrock, gas pipe for lights, and knob and tube wiring.
KeithTurbo
ILikeNewEnglandBeer
Well just do it how it says in our specs! Oh wait, it's December now in New England and snowing and you can't pave? Maybe get us submittals?
awesmond
Red seal carpenter here. Can 100% confirm they both spawn from hell.
MrGorzitza
Fellow red seal, can confirm!
whatmakesushuman
May as well chime in. Red Seal, residential construction though. For me, it was the designers.
HomelessJesus
Hey don’t blame the engineer, we have to work with the insufferable people to make shit work
PoorBoyChevelle
What people don't understand about engineers. We don't get paid to optimize stuff. It's "I need the cheapest functional solution yesterday"
igetthatprobably
Engineer here... architects get really cool ideas but no thought to design constraints, design engineers make that "dream" acheivable...
timfikKing
Not all architects are that bad. Sadly many are.
igetthatprobably
Within the law's of physics with little thought of building codes and current conditions (they try but damn) then it moves to construction..
igetthatprobably
Engineers who have to attempt a work flow that follows safety regulations and actually installing the dream which gets passed to the...
igetthatprobably
Skilled craft that have to install the light fixture that floats with no connections. All of this is the fault of the financer who...
igetthatprobably
Paid for the dream when they just think it's a cool idea without considering how its done
Icedpryo
As an engineer i must say that, though we hate architects, if we designed the world everything would look like communist era buildings.
SephReed
I fucking love a challenge
Nuttsy
Nit: Brutalism was fairly common at the time. Just that commieblocks saw maintenance that wasn't just the tender caress of a wrecking ball.
Counterfit
Ugh, I am not a fan of brutalist architecture
Nuttsy
They're good buildings Cont.
Damiv
I’m totally ok with that.
Misteree8
Or we have more architects be like Leonardo di vinci and Gaudi in that they didn't just think design aesthetic they also were mindful about
Misteree8
2/ feasibility instead of just pass the buck down the line.
Icedpryo
Unfortunately people like that only show up once in a century
Misteree8
Im more covering there diligence in seeing the design works not their genius.
Rexsplode
Brutalism. Can be really cool sometimes, mostly you end up with colleges that look like prisons or "ministry of Inquisition headquarters"
OtterlyMagnificent
That's because it's fucking efficient.
ThisPleasesSlaanesh
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. Brutalist architecture can be very efficient. Nobody said it was pretty.
OtterlyMagnificent
They hate cause they ain't. Nothing's more efficient than the Brute-Force method. There are FASTER ways, but they take more time to learn.
Pseudosim
The thing being though is that it can be pretty, its just a matter of having a good architect design it as such.
RussianMathNinja
Well... if your building didn't need to contain people then, yes, it would be maximally efficient. But it turns out that people don't 1/?
RussianMathNinja
like living in cubes without sunlight very much, and it tends to make them less efficient. 2/2
stigmaoftherose
TIL I'm not a people.
OtterlyMagnificent
Windows can be put in.
RussianMathNinja
Of course. But that wasn't the original Brutalist style.
StonesOnTheHill
I could dig a bunch of practical buildings, maybe with some green between them, good walking/bike infrastructure... Just keeping it simple.
NSPECTORa
You mean like the Pentagon, or those Ukrainian hotels that qt 15 story circular...
howToLoseTheGame
Just add a touch of Kremlin and you're all set
Nuttsy
Nit: Kremlin, being a centuries old fortress, is a multitude of styles, but not brutalist. State Kremlin Palace might be close; Modernist.
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Alright, please tell me the pointy thing in the back has some sort of function
mustardburp
It's to poke God in the eye when he tries to peep on you masturbating.
maddcovv
NOD tower
TinyLiehon
There will be a red button there. When you press it flames shoot out of the top
ComradeTrotsky
You mean the sail? Probably not but it will be a great wind catcher.
TheMajesticBongacorn
Could turn it into a big rooftop greenhouse.
KrisPhoenix
You will see, when the 30 meter high wave comes, it'll cut it.
malachilenomade
Haven't you ever seen the documentary Contact? Starring Charlie Sheen. Oh, there is a function... a dark, nefarious function...
troyandabedpostoniiiiimgur
Aesthetics can be a function... maybe.
zeroexistence
to redirect the wind so the building can fly.
Archid0rk
If in school...no reason beyond aesthetic. In real world, mechanical screening or a view deck.
UmHowAboutAnonymous
That's the grow room
kelseysaurusrex
It's a big sail so the building can fly to safety when the winds pick up
yeaaadude
Its apart of the building
Feldspartacus
That pointy thing is the glue of the world Mark. It holds it all together.
MrKibbs
BFG9000
BSwann
Adds height to the record
huho
No just glass
shakedownblues
To fall and cause extra murders
QuickFartsLongTurds
To establish dominance.
insanemama
The pointy thing in the back has some sort of function
Candyside
Rudder for floods
OnionCutter
"Of course, the pointy end goes into the other, man. "
typointhetitle
A hat to keep it's head warm
MeatballMountain
Pterodactyl exhibit
miketrevino21
Wifi
mcisaacsie1365
To get rid of seagulls
Sergio1d
It's called fashion!
Puppydonk
You stick the skulls on the pointy bits, yea? Then the dumdums don't attack you no more.
Muffyns
Look up, hah fuck you
PortoFoodBeast
Light
Ozarck
Nothing in this design has any sort of function
SirFancy
Could be a different type of apartment on that side, that would be cool to have the 2 styles in one building.
Zahnradfee
I think the pointy thing was the original building before it got infected with these weird parasites or tumors protruding out of it. Poor >
Zahnradfee
thing. Might have to be put down.
CaffeineManic
The architect was antivax.
Mjarchitect
Honestly the facade and the program rarely have any relation when considering school projects, which this definitely is.
Zattarra
It's for style points
panicatthepickle
Style
battleofhastings1066
"Curb appeal"
boomchugaluga
Yeah , To be an eyesore
FrankTheCube
It acts like a magnify glass setting fire to nearby buildings.
MyBigMouth
If you mean the thing near the guys left hand, it looks like a pen, I've heard they can be used to write things.
Hexxxxxxxxx
Could be a sun shade. Bris soleil i think is the term
StarkRG
Looks like the main support structure.
jcreese54350
It is the spine of the structure, this design requires it to support itself. While it may have usable space, it will likely be reinforced..
Ifhobbswasaduck2
Blocks the high storm.
O000000000000000000000000O
That’s the point!
torillatavataan
It'll catch the wind that's needed to hold the unbalanced bugger upright.
blissblush
Found the engineer!!
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
lol not hardly. I am just sick of the form over function movement
tychog99
Hey, I always go style over stats!
HungarianHippos16
So you prefer looking a rectangles.. how exciting
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
negatory my friend. I enjoy new things but it seems lately form is way out of whack just for viewing pleasure
trailb1azer
It's always been and always will be form follows function -me, an architect
Lucky246
As an architecture student right now... the professors keep trying to say it can be either case, im not so sure
tychog99
Hey, I always go style over stats!
justtruth
Also known as peacocking
mehasdrainbamage
Fair, but I also like looking at pretty skyscrapers instead of glass boxes
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Yeah, Houston's skyline is fucking boring as shit I will agree.
tychog99
Hey, I always go style over stats!
ButterfaceTaintClown
what's your favourite type of architecture?
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
I like castles
ElynaerDeiros
Castles are proof something can look nice. And still be very functional.
Bhockzer
Form over function drives advancement in material sciences.
BilboT34Baggins
NO NONO. Greater and greater functions drives advancement in material sciences. You don't design new materials for LOOKS.
Cuntortionist
Yea but what if it looks really really cool??
Bhockzer
No. You design for form then, when you’re told current materials aren’t sufficient, you create new materials.
BobbieNell
Likely just a large atrium.
notsureaboutusername
Pinkee
Defence mechanism. Like a stegosaurus.
SplendidoSplendente
it has the vanity height function.
mankmachine
It has to act as a buttress in order for this building to even kind of work structurally
DimmyNatran
What pointy thing
Rodka209
Obelisk of Light
Oultnil
Was looking for this.
Hybris51129
PaintedSlate
Awww, beat me to it.
cityofstars
This guy Command & Conquers
Phoenix0153
The good ole days of gaming
cityofstars
One of the first games I ever played, Mammoth Tank 4 lyfe.
Phoenix0153
Press X to scatter your infantry to avoid being run over
ButternutCrinklefries
You could make a large greenhouse forest place as the top floor with big pointy thing for fanciness
ThatMonkeyFromCaptainPlanet
Architecture, and Functionality don't always mix together.
UsernamesAreStupidAnyways
There's architecture - and then there's ARTchitecture.
ThrowPETAtoTheVeganLions
Where you store the super laser
Phoenix0153
Obelisk of light. It instantly kills infantry and is still pretty effective against armored units but had a slow rate of fire
shadimir25
There's the response i was looking for lol.
TargetedAdBot
Or poop cannon
DrMephistoFromSouthParkColorado
Am I the only one that has watched Austin Powers? The "laser" code named Preperation H will be on the moon.
v
geop1978
Preparation H, feels good on the whole.
StarscreamAndHutch
*inator
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Most fun answer
astronautry
Most fun most fun answer
xminacakex
So you guys know about the building in London that accidentally melted a car right? It's called the walkytalky. During the summer it...
xminacakex
... Focused the suns rays into a beam that melted an expensive car and part of the road.
geop1978
https://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/building-london-scorch.gif
xminacakex
That's the one
fromages
It deviate planes :x
carmeCookieRunner
To be taller than the buildings around it. “Flex”
DerpMeister
It's not modern art if it has a function.
yellowjellybean
Most likely transferring weight to the ground instead of on the janky apartments
BeExcellent
Stuey1221
You mean the air con fan?
joeys2323
Yeah to throw off your structural support, gotta keep the actual designers on their feets
pareidoliaperson
It's a statement.
TyrannusEquus
Stabs god if he ever tries to come down here.
Kightzeareau
Solar panels
ticktockbent
looks neat?
dappersapper1371
They will bolt the collapsed crane to the building.
TheCyclingEngineer
What is function? - literally any designer/concept artist
LinwoodLTHR
Aesthetics.
sharpasabanana
Anti-Godzilla device
nopost
Focusing sunlight into powerful beams that will burn the people inside like ants under a magnifying glass
DelicateMenstrualQueef
Carnifexi
pauljs75
Two of such buildings are already known to exist, so a third wouldn't be too surprising. (However it's those outside rather than inside.)
FierceKitty
Best part is? He knew it’d happen- just couldn’t calculate to what extreme- and did it anyways lol. Correct me if I’m wrong though!
DanOrtega
Seem to remember that too. This guy is mi modern favorite villain.
IfOnlyICouldUseMyPowersForGood
1) Aria Hotel, Las Vegas
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Some building in London.
pauljs75
2) 20 Fenchurch St., London U.K.
Peterowski
In their defense, London wasn't known for hot sunny days and they weren't known for their smarts.
meta666
Are you sure? I thought it was the Vdara next door, which was designed by the same architect that did the walkie talkie in London. Couldn’t
IfOnlyICouldUseMyPowersForGood
You're absolutely right. For years I've been calling it the Aria Death Ray, when actually it's the Vdara Death Ray. Thanks!
meta666
Find info about Aria’s problem
Dillerjoe
It's a feature
LogarithmicRhinoceros
Death ray.
whydoineedtochooseausername
Decoration
GeneralLowselFesteem
Probably counterweight. Elevators etc
evilpsych
There’s definitely some cantilever effect and load transference happening too
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Most practical answer.
GeneralLowselFesteem
What i really wanted to say was “a poop shoot, where people can throw their poop and refuse out like in medieval times”
sciencenf10
*chute
InfinityGamez
Second most practical answer
SheriffHD
But the realistic answer will be, it's designed to leak like a bitch when it rains and roast anyone under it in summer.
FaveBoobsandMilfs