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I'm pretty disappointed with all of the brand new 3-6 story buildings on Capitol Hill. I get that we have a bunch of rich people whose views might have been imp
by ragona 7y ago
I'm pretty disappointed with all of the brand new 3-6 story buildings on Capitol Hill. I get that we have a bunch of rich people whose views might have been impacted if the number of stories wasn't capped so low, but the hill is now damned near part of downtown, and we should have built much taller buildings to reflect that.
- jeffbax 7y agoActually, taller is not necessarily more efficient… Consistent 6 stories may even be optimal: https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1097802322627813376 https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1097802322627813376
- manfredo 7y agoThat's a very bad comparison. The taller buildings are "less efficient" because they're way narrower than the short buildings. If you look at the picture only about 20% of the land is occupied in the tall buildings while 80% of the land is used in the 6 story buildings. If you raised the number of floors on the building on the left while maintaining the same footprint it'd fit a lot more units. You either build wide or you build tall. If you can only have a 200x200 feet footprint, then building a 30 story building on that footprint is 5x more efficient than building a 6 story building on that footprint.