• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    9 hours ago

    I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

    Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

    The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

    Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      7·
      8 hours ago

      how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
        15·
        7 hours ago

        North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.

        Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        6 hours ago

        The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

        As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    251·
    10 hours ago

    We’ve heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

    Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I mean it’s absolutely nuts how many people this building holds. I’m guessing that the majority of towns across the majority of the US land area have populations smaller than this one building. Probably likewise throughout most of Europe. The population density of this building is crazy. 115/km^2 (apparently the building is 260km^2)

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    12 hours ago

    Any apartment building that size should have a couple floors of retail, especially food - they would make a fortune. If I lived there I would illegally sell teriyaki or something out of my apartment. Better still, run it like a street drug business - pay cooks and delivery people, and have distributors in between - they alone know where the kitchens are. Eventually it’s the chicken fingers episode of Community.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
    2·
    6 hours ago

    These types of apartments interest me a lot, they become cities in one of themselves, a livable Kowloon

    Malls, gyms, restaurants all in the apartment because of how high the density is

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    65·
    16 hours ago

    There’s a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        12 hours ago

        Pizza Hut makes a deal with the government to put all the pepperoni customers on the same floors, veggie people on other floors, etc. The lava cake freaks… there’s a special floor for them.

    • Muehe@lemmy.ml
      41·
      16 hours ago

      Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.

      P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        The luxury floors should have automated dumbwaiters, so there’s a little rectangle in the wall that’s basically a primitive replicator. Trash leaves through the same chute.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      161·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah, I’ve delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn’t matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.

      I didn’t go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn’t, their phone number was part of the information provided.

    • Gigasser@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Arcolgies can be a cool idea though if done right. Granted it hasn’t been done given the amount of resources, planning, logistics, etc required. Still, cool idea.

      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
        742·
        18 hours ago

        It’s a matter of perspective and use — high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

        I’d much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

        • SeekPie@lemm.ee
          271·
          17 hours ago

          I’d also prefer something denser than suburban sprawl, but I think there’s a balance point between that and what the post is showing.

          I think that 3-5 story apartments with shops underneath are the best ones, because they aren’t too dense while also not wasting space.

          • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            26·
            17 hours ago

            Make those with decent construction so every cough and sneeze isn’t broadcasted to all of your neighbors with good design so it’s disability friendly, and that is the dream right there.

  • matlag@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    15 hours ago

    Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?

    • Amon@lemmy.world
      10·
      15 hours ago

      I’d assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.

      • matlag@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I was more thinking about the day they take the containers out, and the trucks rotation. If they do it once a week, imagine the smell and how many trucks they need…

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        52·
        14 hours ago

        I think they have collection centres (within the building), chutes were more of an American thing (“don’t think about the trash” mentality).

        • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Nah, they were where I live. Now they are closed due to sanitary concerns or something. In old, post soviet building I lived they removed chutes and turned bottom level (where the big trash containers were) into expanded lift, so disabled people could ride all the way to ground level.