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I always felt that the contemporary architecture is cheap first and easy to clean/maintain second. All those nice ornaments are expensive, not easy to clean and
by hawski 6y ago
I always felt that the contemporary architecture is cheap first and easy to clean/maintain second. All those nice ornaments are expensive, not easy to clean and their replacement in any case is even more expensive. Is there a way around this.
I prefer this older aesthetic, but I think I couldn't afford it. My one idea is to build with CLT and keep wood exposed both in and outside (with proper thermal insulation in the middle). That way it's cheap, but with this warm feeling of wood.
- AlexandrB 6y agoThis is giving modern architecture entirely too much credit. For example, one of the many crimes of the UWaterloo Davis Center[1] was that the roof (curved and made of panes of glass) leaked every time it rained causing a mess on the floors below. These designs are often neither attractive nor practical. The weird shapes and angles used often waste usable space, are hard to clean, and introduce additional joints between sections where water or air can get in. [1] https://uwaterloohistory.wordpress.com/davis-centre-dc/ https://uwaterloohistory.wordpress.com/davis-centre-dc/
- floren 6y agoAh, yes, I used to work in a building which had (at great expense, apparently) many curved walls, with "exciting" shiny metal cladding along much of the walls. The roof leaked constantly (frequently into our machine room) and the metal clad walls meant cell phones were useless inside, but I bet that architect got an award.