So there are some "green" concretes being developed that actually operate as carbon sinks, and damn am I ready for a real green brutalism to come roaring in.
Use green concrete, it's really good insulation, and plant some fucking plants on every flat surface. Hell yes.
plant some fucking plants on every flat surface
this is the only form of brutalism i like (is it still brutalism? idk)
the giant geometric shapes contrasting with the organic plant life makes my brain go "yeah this is nice ngl"
Anywhere I can learn about green concrete? I know there's hempcrete but its uses are comparatively limited iirc.
It's something I recently learned about, this is a brief overview of a material constructed using soil and an adhesive made from cellulose that makes it a 3D-printable material. Right now it isn't load bearing, so its use is very limited.
Seems a bit pie-in-the-sky of an idea for now, but the future is near.
What was wrong with regular old-fashioned stabilized earth?
It really doesn't need to be modernized with new synthetic additives.
Lime mortar, limecrete, or maybe even hempcrete if you want to go extra carbon-negative.
Let a thousand Shibams sprout from the cultural desert.
Hot take: Art Nouveau definitely has the advantage of needing less maintainance to not look like a piss-soaked warzone. If it's a bit dirty, if there's some cracks in the facade, some corrosion, some peeling paint, that only makes it look lived-in until we're getting into actual unsound territory. With brutalism, all of that is a problem much sooner, as it relies so heavily on having that clean, futurist drawing-board look.
Art nouveau gets a really good patina, art deco needs to be maintained but not necessarily perfectly clean (a lot of Manhattan), and brutalism is just extremely maintenance-intensive and shockingly difficult to build properly in the first place.
YES.
But again, I want AN used for average people's homes, instead just for the rich.
I am a brutalist. However, allow me to embrace my Art Deco and Art Nouveau comrades with the following statement I think we can all agree on:
"The faux Greco-Roman American architecture style that seemingly every new building in America adopts - from your local bank to the federal courthouses - is an absolute abomination and they must all be destroyed in a socialist future, regardless of their utility. Some things are just so ugly, their utility is irrelevant".
Brutalism was the house style for federal buildings for a long time because it was considered as "monumental" as neoclassical architecture. I think a lot of the bad rap brutalism gets comes from people associating it with imposing and alienating government buildings.
maybe that's part of why brutalism appeals to me, is that I have more positive associations with it
from a young age, most of my exposure to brutalism was from the buildings on the local college campuses where my dad has worked for years and where I later attended
so to me brutalism feels nostalgic and cozy
brutalism is meant to be integrated with greenery and that's when it really reaches its potential
Really? I thought that was that new wave of green washed brutalism "let's keep using a 7 people SUV to go buy a liter of milk but we put some crasulae plants on this unnecesary concrete structure so let's masturbate"
Art Nouveau is my shit but I saw few instances of it used for "cheap" homes.
Aren't gargoyles and angels and all that previous to art nouveau? I thought AN was more of being inspired by, basically, plants.
The socialist future will be built in romanesque because every worker deserves to live in an ornate brick castle
I didn't knew that term, the modern houses trying that style that google images showed are really McMansion-y
Yeah, it was the product of city fire codes requiring brick construction in the 19th century, and the Mason's guild using its monopoly to create hiring quotas resulting in the wild patterning all up the buildings.
Wot if brutalism but with cob and then frescoes on top
(im not owned, im not owned! i cry as i slowly shrink and turn into a clay-heavy cob)
