Obviously communal housing or community centers and whatnot are a good option, but they feel somewhat inefficient. A sort of band-aid to use this place short term, but long term we would want to build brand new housing with specific considerations made for building communities.
So an idea that struck me for these kind of buildings is some kind of like, hotel-style vacation spot? I could picture reserving this place or part of this place for a large group of friends to just, spend a week or two at? I'm not sure what vacations or hotels or really the hospitality industry in general would look like post-revolution but presumably people would still want to be able to spend some time in "luxurious" accomodations in a new locale.
Idk maybe it's a dumb fucking idea, but I just feel like there's some human drive to enjoy hotels that can be divorced from capitalism and my first thought seeing this place was "this is a resort, not a house."
That's wishful thinking. Nobody is going to be maintaining places like this. They will eventually crumble to ruins, as all empires "great works" do.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Obviously communal housing or community centers and whatnot are a good option, but they feel somewhat inefficient. A sort of band-aid to use this place short term, but long term we would want to build brand new housing with specific considerations made for building communities.
So an idea that struck me for these kind of buildings is some kind of like, hotel-style vacation spot? I could picture reserving this place or part of this place for a large group of friends to just, spend a week or two at? I'm not sure what vacations or hotels or really the hospitality industry in general would look like post-revolution but presumably people would still want to be able to spend some time in "luxurious" accomodations in a new locale.
Idk maybe it's a dumb fucking idea, but I just feel like there's some human drive to enjoy hotels that can be divorced from capitalism and my first thought seeing this place was "this is a resort, not a house."
That's wishful thinking. Nobody is going to be maintaining places like this. They will eventually crumble to ruins, as all empires "great works" do.