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!
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.
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.
We must live in different Americas.
There are 4 or 5 different Americas, maybe more.
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.
Hey you’re thatKamGuy!
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.
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
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.
Mmm. I love me some trash soup on my pizza boxes. Brings out the familiar aroma
The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.
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.
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.
You are all absolutely smothering the joke, lol
This wouldn’t be necessary if everyone used the proper peer review process before publishing their jokes!!
THIS is the peer review process.
The type of reply I was hoping for 😄 good stuff bud ❤️
That’s way more than the population of the whole town I live in.
Why do such monolithic buildings give me such hell-on-earth vibes?
Because that’s exactly what we’ve created.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, love me a elevator. Especially as a delivery driver (rider?).
Until your neighbor starts up with the gimp suit and webcam show again…
How neat is that!?
That’s pretty neat!
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.
i too played simcity
Should look up this place called Arcosanti. An interesting ongoing project, decades in the making.
We’ve heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.
Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh
If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains
passes blunt
Naw, that’s escalators. Elevators are buses.
Perhaps more specifically, escalators are funicular?
Yes
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)
Your math is wrong. 260km^2 would mean 10 miles long and 10 miles wide.
Unless you count floor space, but that’s not how population density is measured.And even then, 115/km^2 means every person would have 2 football fields of space.
A bit defensive there…. It’s quite literally a harmless meme
Also, how does this have anything to do with house brain? Most hotels and apartment buildings don’t even come close to the sizes of some of these massive ones in China.
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.
Costco recently opened a location in California that is also a high rise apartment building
Imagine, rotisserie chicken every day
Are you trying to make me hate my life? Man…
Welcome to Costco, we love you!
Apparently it does have amenities like shops, foodcourt, barber, and other stuff.
Until you realize that every other neighbor does the same, there’s a price war going on, the sole supplier of a key ingredient leverages their monopoly, and the good cooks are bribing the delivery people to cut you out of the loop.
That’s when you call Mr. Wolf.
Homo homini lupus.
Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.
I would be surprised if there weren’t several shops dedicated to the building.
Probably a whole mall on the lower floors and vending machines amd shid
Right? I’m mass texting my deliveries “hey I’m out front with about 12 other orders. If you need it delivered to your door here it’ll be a few extra minutes. I’ll head into the building to complete any remaining deliveries at [time]”
Food is delivered by pneumatic tubes.
Enjoy your pizza all scrambled and your soda is gonna go through nuclear fission 💥
Oh yes, the LHC: Large Hotdog Collider.
So this is what Cyberpunk 2077 based its apartment complexes on
If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures…
Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn’t come up with a solid number.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
25K then?
I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.
Why are you assuming 37 apartments per floor? That answer is definitely no sufficient.
Why are you assuming 4 per apartment?
Lots of assumptions here. Even being off by a bit changes your estimate by thousands.
- P1: 37 floors
- P2: square building
- C1: 37 apartments per floor
duh
This is China, their apartments are casket size. They also do time sharing where one person sleeps while the other is at work and then they swap.
It doesn’t look to me like the kind of a building that would have this, but sure, maybe you could barely reach 20k is you squeeze people in like sardines.
This isn’t true for anything built outside the absolute inner cities, which this clearly isn’t,
They aren’t massive, but they’re plenty reasonably sized and aren’t “casket-sized”
someone posted the listing here, the units are 80m^2, which is 861sq ft, that is nowhere close casket size
I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there
30 thousand people used to live here.
Now it’s a ghost town.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.
That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.
I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don’t look half bad.
For your consideration;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
The lack of quality would be hilarious if if wasn’t so fucking dangerous for people.
This might be better than most apartments I’ve lived in tbh, so it might work if looking out of the window and having the inescapable trap of modern life hit you in the face isn’t a deal breaker for you
It all looks so short, like are the ceilings really low or is the camera just being held by a giant?
That third picture is either warped or the structural soundness of the building is questionable.
I think the balcony edge curves out into the room. The second pic from the loft bedroom kinda/sorta looks like it. Looks like crap with that straight railing though.
For a moment I thought the washing machine was outside on the balcony in picture 6!
Is that a refrigerator in the living room, and a tv over the stove?
It’s called an open floor plan.
| Total Buildings | 2 | | --------------- | ----- | | Total units | 1540 | | Total partings | 2046 |
I saw the same thing. That’s almost 20 people per unit.
I am the pizza delivery boy.
Unfortunately he is tied up at Peach Trees, trying to deliver justice to Ma-Ma.
The Deliverator for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc
Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.
I’m not an expert Chinologist, and it’s a huge country, so it might vary, but AFAIK tipping isn’t really a thing in China.
I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.
