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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (3 children)

both of these were designed by architects. neither reflects the twin simplicity and laziness that engineering embodies.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (7 children)

If engineers had our way all buildings would look like this

This is the ideal building. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like πŸ˜†

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not continue the brick shell at least to eye level? Why does it stop at waist level?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brick expensive :(

panel cheap :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The real question is, why is there any brick at all?

(The answer is almost certainly that somebody other than the engineer imposed the requirement.)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brick waterproof.

Brick termite-proof.

Brick fireproof.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Panel same (probably, depending what kind of panel).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No, panel only as waterproof as the coating protecting it. Brick is rock, takes centuries to wear out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

...masonry wainscots look tacky-as-heck but they provide impact and moisture resistance where it's needed most...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Brick? Pfft. Concrete elements all the way. There's no equal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Dogshit R-factor, poor impact resistance, I mean that's the obvious stuff lol

Peak performance is highly dependent on who's defining it 😝

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This is what's known in the Midwest as "tornado bait"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mind explaining why this is peak performance? ELI5 if possible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Engineers love these things because they're real easy to design, and very efficient in usable volume vs materials (which is why they're used for every warehouse/big store/factory)

Obviously not great for living in or anything but that's the joke :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Very interesting! I never thought of that before. On the building pictured, which would take least effort to double the storage space - making it twice as long, wide or tall?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Twice as long - all the structural elements are the same, you just line up more of them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you really mean "effort" (and if so, whose?) or do you mean cost? The other reply is correct that making it twice as long would minimize the need to redesign, but without doing the math (I am a civil engineer, but I can't be bothered) I suspect making it twice as tall would use the least additional materials and therefore be cheapest. (That assumes taking advantage of the extra height for storage is the client's problem, not the engineer's. Having to put in a second story floor would change things.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My neighbour shop looks exactly like that. It went bankrupt cuz it's ugly as fuck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

"Shop"? Depending on the type - and I don't want to jump to conclusions - I doubt it being ugly was a major part of its bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

...i prefer corrugated arch structures, but rigid frames are popular for good reason...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As an engineer, I prefer to call it minmalism.

Quick edit: I saw the typo, but it is also an example of what the sentence is supposed to convey.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look. i's ain't cheap, and half the readers won't even use it.

Leave it out, we'll claim it was a mistake, and if anyone really complains we can add it back later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you kidding. Just slap an extra 20% of the is you think you used on the end in case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's positvely genus!ii

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I go with "efficiency"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

hey! I resemble those remarks!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Surely that second building is AI generated or something right? Surely physics would not allow such a monstrosity, nor would any city approve it... right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it exists. I spent three whole minutes on Google and can't find it. I'd expect it to be fairly famous if real.

I'm not sure Y anyone would build it, but I do think we could figure a way to build it safely if someone wanted to throw enough money at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Its fictional, I found an article

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The first building looks like it's a female connector for a high throughput cable of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Looks like a German bunker on Omaha Beach to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

For me it's cylons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I believe it's in Guernsey, C.I.

ed: it's a German WW2 coastal naval range finding tower. Used for fire control of coastal guns shooting 25 miles out to sea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Brutalist architecture in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What buildings are these?

Can't believe no-one asked yet

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The bottom one looks scary as fuck. I don't want to be in or around that thing if it was real.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

BUT WITH THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For a drainage engineer, he's shockingly bad with sluices in Timberborn, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It was those architecture beavers!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Realcivilengineer is that you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They're the same picture

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