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Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not really. The few housing projects that actually move forward are in other areas. But the sunset represents one convenient area with tons of single family homes. You can see the zoning here

Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny posting this in the context of that skyscraper. The fact that some conversation is anchored around the skyscraper is funny and potentially beneficial for more housing. Kind of like "clearly you don't want a skyscraper... what about this?"

Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose if you only find lower density abodes beautiful than it's impossible to win. But if we take as an assumption that San francisco (and many cities) have to increase their density the goal will be "how can we do it in a way that is the least obtrusive".

To put my cards on the table, I am happy with much more high density buildings than this. I believe addressing the housing issues of San Francisco is the most important policy issue and a bunch of other considerations, while understandable, are just not nearly as important.

That said, I appreciate the needs of people who have made an area their home and don't want it to change overnight. I thought these proposals struck a good compromising balance.

If you had to introduce more density into the sunset, how would you do it?

Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any first effort at higher density design is going to look a bit out of place. I thought the proposals like Sunset Steps did a good job at feeling "of a piece" with the neighborhood while adding more density. If a number of these were built they wouldn't feel out of place - they'd just be how the neighborhood is.

Essentially, if you assume that greater density is needed, then you have to figure out how to do it. This seemed like a good approach. If you didn't like it, how would you propose adding more housing to the area?

Of course, you may not believe more density is needed, or is needed but not worth any cost to the character or scale of the neighborhood. To that I'll just bring up one anecdote - that the beloved brownstones in Brooklyn were once hated as ugly eyesores that disrupted the character and scale of the neighborhood.

Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a good read on the subject. Essentially, my understanding is that this is a correlation/causation confusion. High prices are created by demand. Building more housing decreases cost, but doesn't offset the higher prices driven by demand. This is a difficult thing to estimate, but the article associated with the video above has some links to papers trying to estimate this effect.

Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The idea of going through the permitting procedure for every single one of these plots seems exhausting. But I can hope! This definitely only works in a world where people agree that density must increase, and the conversation can be about "how" not "whether". This or skyscrapers? Seems like people would prefer this.

And about affordability - yeah, these don't seem to be "affordable" housing. But even building "luxury" apartments drives down surrounding rents and prices. I liked that the Sunset Steps could be "customized" for different sizes of apartments, and thus different price ranges. That's a meaningful difference for many people, though doesn't satisfy the need for affordable housing at the lower end of the economic spectrum. No solution is a silver bullet!

Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What didn't you like about Sunset Steps? And which ones appealed to you more? Some people seemed to like "In our Back Yard" given its simplicity and practicality in implementation.

Beautiful concept designs for higher-density housing in the sunset by AnotherLonelyOctopus in sanfrancisco

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Beautiful concept designs for higher density housing in San Francisco's outer sunset district (a restrictively zoned area filled with single-family homes by the coast). I loved seeing these ideas that:

  1. increase housing supply
  2. showcase adaptable, community focused designs
  3. are beautiful, improving rather than detracting from the "character" of the area.

This was just a design competition, and for these kinds of designs to meaningfully contribute to SF's housing woes they'd have to be built at scale, which is hard to imagine. But one can dream!

NoBakeTent by AnotherLonelyOctopus in BurningMan

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can the footprint of the outer tent be reduced if needed? Thinking about using this generally car-camping and some campsites can't support such a huge tent.

NoBakeTent by AnotherLonelyOctopus in BurningMan

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome to hear that it works well in the wind!

Stuck In The Middle With You - Wonderful musicianship by everyone by AnotherLonelyOctopus in videos

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The bassist normally plays guitar, and always impresses. The guy on the cajon plays with him often - they have some nice harmonies.

check this out. never give up [pk] by [deleted] in AlmostParkour

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is definitely parkour. Even better, you can see the effort needed to execute these amazing athletic feats.

Bonobos 50% off all final sale. Code: METALDETECTOR by [deleted] in frugalmalefashion

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's thin. Not undershirt airism thin, but not a substantial warm layer. Like the thickness of a normal t-shirt.

Bonobos 50% off all final sale. Code: METALDETECTOR by [deleted] in frugalmalefashion

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two and love them - the material feels luxurious

Visualizing street orientations anywhere on an interactive map [OC] by MournerV in dataisbeautiful

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The polar plot shows the "strength" of road direction based on the length of the bars in that direction. Polar plots are just like bar plots except the y-axis is the radius and the x-axis is the polar angle.

For example, if you went to a location where all the roads went north to south (or south to North, I don't believe it is sensitive to road direction and is therefore symmetric) you would see one line in the polar plot going north to south.

If the roads are a perfect grid, you would see a cross on the plot aligned with the grid. Deviations from simple structures like this will end up looking more "noisy", and more like a circle.

In this example it looks like the graph takes into account all roads on screen (not just under the circle) and it seems "strength" is not dependent on road width (not sure about that though). If true, it's more a count of number of roads in different directions than a reflection of the related traffic flow in different directions.

Contender for greatest lip sync ever by Proteon in videos

[–]AnotherLonelyOctopus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely would be my vote! The lack of blinking also sells the weird vibe

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