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Architecture shapes society
posted ago by AlfredicEnglishRules ago by AlfredicEnglishRules +28 / -1

I don't think people realize this happens. Architecture and how it is designed let's the person the street know what is what and the people in those areas. To see these ideas in shape, you need to find a display or interactive themed event that talks about it. Norman Bel Geddes did that.

Norman Bel Geddes

An article and bit of conversation about the designer. He created an entire experience with rides to describe the cities of the future. His designs are used even today

A quote from Bel Geddes

And a disagreement with his work.

A nice article about the design plans

This is why architecture is so big. Most of the time the ideas are artsy, and cool to look at or experience.

Architecture

A great design to make the room look light and happy. Just happy to find regular architecture articles again.

White building with all the stupid architect stuff added in

PassiveHaus cement house

Big wooden facade for a modern home

A brickyard retreat

Tropical rounded HQ in Brazil

New Urban Center in Bergen Norway

The insane building with honeycombed steps next to Hudson River are being opened again. This time with nets to stop people from jumping

A nice guest house

A honeycomb apartment complex in Germany

An open coastal California house with wood and big windows

An open cement house

Layered cement house in Barcelona

An artsy area with mirrors on the ceiling to make it look even bigger. Rounded everything. It looks like a black and white artsy TARDIS

A building using older techniques. I've posted about it before

A building with pillars that look like wings

A wooden fence style house

A simple but well organized house

Check out this open cement office

Orange cloth material slung by steel pipes.

A house that looks nice, but is probably terrible to live in.

The Bocha House. It's a nice breezy open area that looks like it should be in Argentina

A cool hanging courtyard

A compact house in a city

Service stations in a park

Arch: Different Feels

This stadium area feels different depending on where you are.

A black and white building that sticks out in a forest

Another building that feels different depending on where you are.

Most of the time I end up feeling like I'm looking at a videogame when designing for architecture. The design programs look like level editors so it's not hard to fall into those thoughts.

However, you can see a single country showing their culture once you can group them together.

Arch: Japan

A small but open home in Japan

Another interesting Japanese home

A slide able office. The office slides away for an open room to appear. Just as dumb and weird as you think.

This is why you find so much propaganda about architecture. It's not the artistry, it's the control.

Arch: Tech Propaganda

New methods to deal with earthquakes have the house pushed up by air. The problem is that the promotion of it says magnets with a bad picture.

Make urban living sustainable for nature, to stop global warming.

A protest against centrally controlled cities. The images were made using AI

Houses are shrinking in size. The 400 foot house is becoming popular.

SJWs come for architecture. Especially hard because I know black run architecture firms that are doing great. This will halt their ability to do work, not help it.

They get into debates about what materials to use.

_TP: Materials

Houses built of popcorn

Carbon Capturing Japanese house

Hurricane resistant house parts are being manufactured in southern Florida right now.

An argument for glass houses

RAAC housing turned out to use faulty cement in their lower income buildings. Now home owners are left with bad homes.

Then the debates are how to build them. The big controlling types are promoting 3D printing.

_TP: 3D Printed

3D Prefabricated homes

Trudeau pushes 3D printed homes to fix housing problems.

With $150,000 you can own a 3D Printed home. This is so cheap even paupers could buy it right?

Then we have modular design, which will work way better with AI designs.

Arch: Modular Design

An argument for modulars design. Modular means they have a bunch of basic parts and can change the building as needed.

Can modular design save the day? I bet it can be designed pretty easily with AI

A company that makes modular housing

This is a really cool house that can be changed around as needed with a courtyard in the middle.

Here's a fully modular building that can be changed as needed.

$300,000 micro factories build custom design homes. If it's the same materials being placed in different places, that makes it modular.

A big propaganda push for Modular Design

Companies are preparing to make modular homes and buildings

Modular homes seem to be from the same ideas as prefab homes, which have been around for a long time.

_TH: Prefab

Tour of a prefab home factory

Sears had homes to order for decades in the early 20th century. Many of these homes still exist. Every single part of the building was sent to you. Websites keep databases on where these homes still are.

Prefabs became very popular right after world war II in England. Housing has been destroyed and needed to be replaced quickly.

Here's a rebuilt kit house.

Tiny Homes seem like an answer

Arch: Tiny Homes

Sherpa Tiny Houses are small but friendly. I love how they manipulate the angles of the photos to make it feel better.

A tent home that can be expanded when you arrive

Mi Casita

Recessed lighting helps this Tiny Home stand out. It's $150,000

This tiny home expands to the size of a normal one.

Until you see the villages.

_TH: Villages

A tiny home village.

Kelowa has a tiny home village

Tampa opens up a homeless tiny home village

San Francisco residents are tired of paying for tiny home towns for homeless

Oregon promotes tiny home villages

And especially how anyone is treated based on how they acquired the tiny home, or it's village.

_TH: Living in the Woods

This couple bought a tiny home in the middle of the woods for $65,000. They are trendy folks.

Homeless man builds his own home on street

This homeless man built a tiny home and then got in trouble for not being up to code

Homeless encampments are appearing everywhere. They want to be left alone, so they make homes in places like a deep swamp.

You will note it's not the home, it's the control for it that is the stickler. They want to control the homeless and use them as a bully wick for power.

This is why Amazon selling the prefab tiny homes is an interesting thought.

_TH: Amazon Tiny Homes

Amazon is selling $20,000 manufactured homes.

$27,000 homes with rooms from Amazon

$10,000 tiny home with second floor

The truth is many of these made to order homes are nothing like a full home. It's just a shell and needs stuff like plumbing added on.

This could be an answer to the more destitute who want a place to call home. It could also be a large game of who gets control over a large part of a suburban area.

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