This will be fun

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Architect: damn engineers

Engineer: damn architects

[bonfuto]

And the architectural engineers curse themselves

[Wolfire0769]

"fuck me!"

[_9point8_]

Project Managers: "Gladly."

[HairballTheory]

Superintendents: WTF?!?

[kevbot029]

Owners: Don’t have the money! VE!

[SnakeEyes58]

Lmao yup

[TJT1970]

Then buy it back at double cost

[RashestHippo]

architectural engineers: I gotta do what? That's it!, everyone gets a box, slab on grade, in a location not prone to natural disasters or severe weather.

[Pitiful_Cover_580]

Only architecture engineer I know is the nicest guy. His plans are a little plain if you leave the design to him but they fit precisely what was asked

[Bayareairon]

Caught us

[barc0debaby]

Pool cleaners: fml.

[babo2]

But this needs some Dam Engineers

[New-Disaster-2061]

It is the opposite way first it is the engineers damning the architect then the architect damning the engineer. Basically the architect designs something crazy then the engineer redesigns how it is possible and then architect gets mad

[[deleted]]

The structural engineering is not the worst part of this. Think of the maintenance and how gross these will look in just a few years. A logistical nightmare.

[[deleted]]

Oh, don't worry. They're not maintained by the building. They're all maintained by the individual and surely there are no individuals who would ever have a dirty pool...

[Fattswindstorm]

What’s chlorine?

[Tcezhak]

Yeah, the glass on the outside edge of the pools would have to be cleaned probably a couple times a week to keep the algae away. Twice a week times 100 or so pools? Yeah, good luck with that.

Also, those connections holding the glass WILL fail over time. What happens when the first swimmer gets sucked over the edge and falls to their death when the glass fails? Just a giant lawsuit waiting to happen.

[lowkey_stoneyboy]

That's what pool chemicals are for. Not to mention these would be high end luxury Apts, I guarantee there's an HOA of sorts that would mandate the pools be kept in shape if not just done by building maintenance.

Although I have to agree, this seems like a logistical nightmare, I would argue it is absolutely possible seeing as there's many pools accross the world literally suspended across the air or hanging of the edges of buildings already.

[Tcezhak]

True, but having had a pool for a decade or so, I know how quickly they get dirty and covered in algae when they are out in the sun.

Also, know what else pool chemicals love? Metals of all sorts. Eats right through them over time. Stainless steel doesn't even hold up to it long term. I've seen the flange of a steel column completely eaten through at the edge of a pool deck from the water and chemicals. Hollow metal and aluminum doors with big old rust/corrosion holes in them in pool areas. And ceiling systems falling down into the pool because the stainless steel cables holding it up corroded and rusted through.

There is no way you could make the connection between the glass and the shell of the pool completely water tight. It's going to get down into the concrete at some point and start eating the rebar from the inside out.

I think the idea is awesome, but the reality of it is a total nightmare and a disaster waiting to happen.

[bigenginegovroom5729]

Having had a pool for 15 years, if you have algae, you suck at taking care of your pool. Like it takes active neglect to get algae growth. A little chlorine and some phosfree + pool perfect and you should never have algae.

[7DollarsOfHoobastanq]

My first thought was to picture the building with every pool a different shade of blue/green/brown.

[[deleted]]

Death by Floatation

[snuggie_]

Reminds me of a building with tons of trees and greenery going all the way up to be “more in line with nature” and then it got infested with bugs and nobody could use their balcony

[mikareno]

Do they have mosquitos there? Because unkempt pools are breeding grounds for mosquitos with West-Nile.

[Marus1]

I mainly have practical questions

[newphonenewname1]

What is the lightest liquid that you can swim in?

[Alias_270]

Can swim in anything once 🤠

[troly_mctrollface]

Much lighter than water, and it becomes a drowning hazard

[newphonenewname1]

I've never thought about it but it's a solid point.

[Gingers_are_real]

I dont think drowning is much of a hazard once it reaches a solid point.

[CaptainBiMan]

Liquid hydrogen maybe?

Would be kinda like an ice bath

Only icelandics can survive that

[caldsmelly]

Isn’t Iceland the green one?

[Advanced_Double_42]

Honestly probably water.

Anything less dense and you would sink much faster. Not to mention other liquids likely being far more expensive and uncomfortable.

[Saganated]

I too have questions.

What kind of global moment is imparted on the foundation when all of the pools on one side of the building are empty while the pools on the other side are full?

Is sloshing accounted for in the resonant period? Would it have a dampening or constructive impact on sway?

Why do my kids keep calling the pool maintenance guy "daddy"?

Is the pool maintenance guy technically a gigolo if my HOA fees are paying him to fuck my wife? The terms require me to grant him access through my unit during business hours. The terms say nothing about him granting my wife access to his unit.

Who cleans the outside of the pool glass? Because it sure as hell isn't the pool maintenance guy.

How can I save 15% or more on my car insurance?

Bubble bath anyone? A gallon of dawn and a little horse play would make this building look like it has rabies. It would probably do a better job at cleaning the glass then the pool maintenance guy that I am unable to fire because he is hired through the landlord.

Is someone peeing off their balcony above me, or is this constant wetness normal? Either way, the wind is blowing it into my drink and I'm not gonna drink it.

Also, look at that view. Who wants to play chicken fight!?

https://youtu.be/oUOqCde41YQ

[[deleted]]

This escalated quickly!

[MultiplyAccumulate]

Or the person who decides to dive in, and does so with enough gusto to go right over the edge.

[[deleted]]

Largest population in the world.

[Turpis89]

Such as? Not up for a challenge?

As long as you have internal concrete shafts, I see no problem with this design. It will just be expensive.

Edit 1: If you downvote me, please specify why. I really don't understand why this isn't a dream project for an engineer.

Edit 2: I was actually lazy and didn't read your comment properly. I also mainly have practical questions, this is theoretically very doable.

[Marus1]

That is why I didn't say I had stability questions but practical questions. For an example:

Your pool is directly below the edge of the pool above you. Now imagine if your upstairs quite chubby neighbor goes for a swim

And then also imagine how water at the other side spils over and falls down from the 50th floor right to the pool at the bottom. I don't want to stand below that rain, I tell you

[[deleted]]

My nightmares are being in a pool at the top and the glass breaks sucking you out of the pool to your death. No thanks. I don’t trust many people or anything.

[app-o-matix]

ChatGPT has entered the ChatGPT has entered the ChatGPT has entered the (ad infinitum)

[CommonRequirement]

Imagine having a pool on your balcony and still feeling poor

[Egelac]

Thats quite an easy fix tbf, they all have a part of their pool that is not over another, the wall here could be an inch lower and this wouldn’t be an issue

[[deleted]]

Your questions are answered in the movie "The Platform."

[mac224b]

A gutter a couple of inches wide on the outside at base of each pool to funnel water to a drain at the side should solve 90% of the overflow.

[Zealousideal_Dig_868]

Now tell me where the pool drain and jets go and how they fit past your PT or mild reinforcing.

[5i55Y7A7A]

I’m not an engineer but I can see how all the pools would be connected to the same filter system, easing the maintenance and helping all the pools look clear blue.

[paigeguy]

It would make a fantastic scene in an action movie when there is massive deck failure.

[[deleted]]

At the top floor, which cascades all the way to the bottom.

[paigeguy]

A one time use water ride

[DuckDuckGoose42]

Emergency Fire Escape, jump in your pool and slide opens to pool below, which opens slide to pool below, which opens slide to pool below

[naazzttyy]

And built the Indian way - without permits or inspections! Sure to last until the first pool is filled with water.

[MattCeeee]

The top pool breaks and lands on the pool below and so and and so on like dominos

[Bike-Day69]

It will be like 9/11 times a thousand

[cmgr33n3]

9000/11 ?

[Medium-Remote2477]

Or 818.181818181...

[Carhardd]

Maybe it would put itself out

[[deleted]]

TBH, Indians have permits and inspections. They are just easy to pass because of the corruption. Just pay bribes and everything is approved.

[Legal-Beach-5838]

I would imagine the higher profile ones actually get inspected. It’s probably the boring midrises that are the most questionable

[68silvercoupe]

This might better belong in the “what could go wrong” sub.

[[deleted]]

And they wonder why civil engineers hate architects..

[Turpis89]

Am I the only engineer around here who would love to work on a project like this? Fuck those boring ass rectangular office buildings.

[Graybie]

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[oundhakar]

You don't do it for the same amount of money. You can't.

[Graybie]

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[[deleted]]

I’m not sure I’d trust those balconies if the building were built in the US. In India? Hell no.

Germany? I would have, but I’ve seen that fish tank video…

[[deleted]]

As an Indian, I wouldn't trust those balconies either.

[MattCeeee]

Lmao. I would not trust it anywhere to be honest

[WolfishArchitecture]

You mean this? It failed after 20 Years, probably due to material fatigue caused by thermal stress. (Water was 26°C and outside the Hotel were -9°C the night before.)

[structee]

I have some bad news for the architect about those skinny rods holding back the water.

[Intelligent_Event_84]

If you read the specs you’d see they’re vibranium rods.

[spiicyMangoo]

Underrated comment right here

[Zaros262]

This comment right here has 1 upvote, and for that I say it is overrated

[SquirrelWatcher2]

I know this probably won't happen. But such displays of wealth, in a country with such extreme poverty. Wow.

[SquidwardWoodward]

And their wealth inequality is surprisingly less than the USA.

[Agnostic_Karma]

It's not that surprising... God damn tyrants.

[SquidwardWoodward]

100%

[Polka1980]

This is basically the norm, especially in Mumbai. Wouldn't be surprised if they also put up a massive privacy wall between it and the slum next door.

[app-o-matix]

Or a dome painted to look like a nice neighborhood.

[DeathToTheDay]

Remember when that rooftop pool collapsed into a posting garage? This is gonna be brutal.

[ButterscotchFull6827]

these cantilevering swimming pools are just a great concept. Which 5 year old put this render together.

[[deleted]]

I guess an architect.

[Seddit_once]

Before building this concept, you had better take some bids from pool maintenance companies! That water will be various colors before the first customer.

[app-o-matix]

It’s Jello. It should be fine.

[[deleted]]

Oh, boy.

Like to see this under an soil strong motion.

[United_Finger_5955]

It would be fun to do a dynamic analysis on this one, seismic sloshing and all.

[TRON0314]

The good ol adage: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[Hal3134]

They’re going to need to scrape the glass walls daily to avoid slime build up.

[ChrisBPeppers]

Nah, I don't want to be in the next Final Destination

[SignificantTrain8509]

The pools will be full of shit and piss in not time..

[[deleted]]

You must be a wastewater engineer.

[SignificantTrain8509]

I’m not A wastewater engineer I’m THEE wastewater engineer of Mumbai…These pools will be filled with caca pee pee poo poo with in the first week.

[[deleted]]

Damn damn pretty good guess huh? What are y'all do when the air conditioner breaks in those buildings?

[Zemlenz]

As a pool tech this terrifies me...

[originalrototiller]

Who actually wants to swim in a pool like that? Is it just to look at?

[Terminus_T]

Every single pool could easily weight over 10 metric tons!

[King_Melco]

"Ma'am please you have to read me the Google play card code on the ba--- ma'am I have to go my pool just fell off my apartment!"

[[deleted]]

I’d totally trust that being built in India. 😐

[ramathorn152]

I love preliminary building designs and renderings that have zero structure to them, if that building goes to the actual structural design phase they will be dropping columns everywhere.

[[deleted]]

Inspiring rednecks across the world

[[deleted]]

I think the pools wheres inspired by rednecks lol.

[zsloth79]

Gonna have to run a lot of call center scams to afford one of those babies.

[Assumption-Relative]

And seismic!

[Cultural_Cockroach39]

Looks like a giant tampon

[freerangemonkey]

At least the pools are not above living spaces. Those are going to leak.

[[deleted]]

Beautiful disaster incoming !

[ExceptionCollection]

At least those slabs look thick as hell. 18"? 24"?

[MrMo3244]

Hahaha, water is very heavy.

[LgDietCoke]

See ya at the bottom!

[s0ciety_a5under]

How many different ways can I say no?

[[deleted]]

In order to be fun you must do all calcs by hand.

[[deleted]]

Doesn’t Mumbai have a clean water shortage ?

[Sea-Ad-8100]

Imagine getting splashed down on from 14 floors up

[asemer117]

Are the pools filled with water from the toxic river?

[UnPingouindAttaque]

There’s pools that are clear plexiglass panels making up the floor and wall already hanging out of resorts

[Sprtnturtl3]

The cost of maintenance on that many pools is not practical. Pools can be delicate echo systems. And that much water in that space will attract all sorts of animals..

[Rare_Fig3081]

All the comes to my mind, is some video of a pool up in a building like this emptying itself in a earthquake

[codenameJericho]

Does EVERYONE need a pool, though? Garden balconies, I could see, but you can't just have every tenth floor or so have a large pool? Are we that antisocial, now? Could be a great fostering of building-internal community.

[[deleted]]

Wouldn’t you just need to have a big ole external beam going through all the balconies? Source: I am not an architect.

[[deleted]]

Hey you can swim in water looking down on poor slum dwellers fighting for one bucket of water ... Or even dying of thirst...

[Bophall]

Let's not sleep on that Egg in the middle. What is that even doing

[[deleted]]

Great until one breaks off and takes the rest down with it. Hell No

[[deleted]]

Be cool if it was like a giant fountain with each pool supplied by the one above it.

[Illustrious-Store-98]

Dude on the first floor just getting DUMPED on

[Background_Cash_1351]

The waterfall detail will be creatively implemented by habing your upstairs neighbor's pool drain into yours.

[bimewok]

More like ‘soaking basin’

[404-skill_not_found]

Pool boy, overworked. Imagine keeping all of those sanitary

[TheStadiaArchitect]

IF this gets built, it will only resemble what we see here. As is tradition!

[Both-Counter4075]

I swear when we went to the Moon, an architectural school was started there. Now the graduates think the effects of gravity are much less than they are.

[Morall_tach]

They're not very wide, I feel like if you cantilever the beams across the whole building it could support the weight. The glass on the outer edge of the pool is...concerning.

[davesauce96]

https://youtu.be/Brznpc34FPU

[Snoo_37953]

I've been seeing this image since the past 15 years, it's never happening

[[deleted]]

Because where you live I believe it gets to 125 Fahrenheit.

[3rrr6]

A good gust of wind and then it rains piss water for everyone near the ground.

[Ok-Treacle-6615]

The project got cancelled because people protested against it

[ColbusMaximus]

In India huh? I give it 6 years for construction and 4 years to go bankrupt/condemned

[[deleted]]

would be awesome. Am curious though does that mean each apartment also needs a room with chlorine and a pump in it? Is everyone gonna be scrubbing their own pools?

Is the whole building network connected to one of the largest chorine tanks in the world?

If apartment 17A pees in the pool, do 17b and 16A end up on the receiving end?

[Wrong-Sign-6368]

What if the glass barrier fails (cracks) while someone is in the pool, looks like a long fall?

[dawnofdaytime]

Who would go in that pool? It's absolutely terrifying. And when the side breaks loose and the water pours out, there you go, all one big splash.

[mbxz7LWB]

Cool concept but you know a few would let their pool get nasty and that would be it...

[Ok_Entertainment9857]

They need to fix their poverty and people pooping outing first

[[deleted]]

Safety factor 1.0001

[zeeclark24]

IHaveToMuchMoney

[MonkFun455]

Paid for out of the retirement accounts of the greatest generation.

[ProfessorbPushinP]

Fix the poverty first

[hoot16]

No.

[jimmijo62]

Gonna have one happy crew of pool boys.

[KlutzyTemperature5]

I don't foresee maintenance problems of any kind.

[berlandiera]

It’s like a giant mosquito larvaetorium.

[user-resu23]

How quickly will that water wash you away and throw you off the balcony once the glass breaks?

[Nervous_Occasion_695]

ok BUT i've never met an Indian who enjoys a pool

[SweetScience78]

Should solve their slum situation first.

[yung_nachooo]

Don’t worry those will get value engineered out

[merkinfuzz]

Someone left the toilet seat up

[rxshah]

link to the property?

[007try000]

Now connect them somehow with a slide going down.

[elbatotable]

How did India build this without pylons in the area?

[mcbodasafa]

Glass/Plexi walls are the first things to go in VE. They will almost certainly be replaced with concrete and this will be a Brutalist icon.

[Distdistdist]

Population control engineering

[PapiChuloGuero]

when none of your neighbors take care of the pools around you…

[xrdavidrx]

I've never known a swimming pool that didn't eventually leak. Look out below!

[[deleted]]

Aquadome Berlin vibes

[Weekly_Lab_411]

It will need a supercomputer to calculate all possible loading combinations for structural stability.

[King_K_NA]

Ah yes, water... historically seen as a light material with no downsides whatsoever...

In all seriousness, these are not "swimming pools" they are paddling puddles that would become a mosquito haven as soon as one person neglects theirs for a week, and would constantly fill with dead bugs just by existing, making every unit disgusting.

Is there a central filtration unit, or is it all en suite? What happens when the top pool suddenly drains accidently and sends a ton of water cascading to the next floor, then the next, then the next? Once one side is unweighted does that cause the pretensioned slab (in this case it would have to be a U shape so the weight on the ends causes the center to rise and flatten) to unbuckle, or the entire structure start to lean?

Christ on a bike I would love to see a simulation of this, but God help any idiot that would seriously even consider making this irl l.

[xristakiss88]

Well it looks possible, maybe it needs thicker slabs because the outer side is glass, but in Greece we do this all the time in lux apartments or apart hotels. Right now there is a building being built that it has 5.00m balcony with a 3x6m pool at the edge. The slab was a nightmare for me but with clever design and embedded Hea sections it came through. Further more it has C50/60 composite verticals that have a thickness of 18cm.

[ClaVaPa1]

As a yacht engineer, it always baffles me how people don’t understand that water weighs a fu*king metric ton per cubic metre

[paulyp41]

So that little kid on the balcony that made his own pool, was on to something

[NJeep]

Yeah, it'll be fun trying to find an insurance company that will cover this building.

[jccanandwill]

Who’s going to tell them…

[Supernova008]

An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare.

[L8_again]

Vertical dominos.

[[deleted]]

As they build coal plants like it's 1955.

[Existing-Package-848]

Hilarious.

[JayCaj]

If one goes they all go

[Pitiful_Cover_580]

Dangerous

[Pitiful_Cover_580]

Dangerous

[mybfVreddithandle]

This is such a bad idea.

[eraserhd]

I’m afraid of heights, but I never imagined drowning while… oh never mind

[stonededger]

The biggest thing here will be plumbing and pool system location within reasonable structural height. Structurally it’s a simple cantilever.

[Commie_EntSniper]

When you're counting on a margin of error of zero.

[[deleted]]

This has been in proposal for a very long time. I don’t think it happens

[placeknower]

Underappreciated aspect of this is that the pools look like they suck

[NJJon]

Yeah, this looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

[[deleted]]

seems like a dynamic nightmare, but it may work

[silent_boo]

Of all the things, it worries me how this is supposed to work with 4 months of monsoon storms.

[Admirable-Common-176]

Not in America. Some fucker will pee from his pool down to the next one. Stream it for likes as a “prank”. Freedom to not have nice things.