Even bridges are below the water level in the Netherlands
Even bridges are below the water level in the Netherlands
Elijah Cruz
Jason Martinez
I think they just did that for "artistic value"
Hudson Mitchell
Stay safeu, Netherlands!
Aaron White
I didn't even know this exist, probably costed millions.
Brody Evans
is that a fucking wood holding all that water? that blows my slavic mind. dutch are genius.
Cameron Lee
"""""""Artistic""""""" architecture
Matthew Edwards
looks comfy af
Ryder Garcia
It does look pretty cool
Wyatt Barnes
>tfw your cunt has been buttfucking Mother Nature for 1500 years
Carter Adams
dutchs are really very dumb
Jaxon Reyes
>tfw too smart to live above sea level
Tyler Carter
why do this? why not pile fuckload of earth and cement and fundaments and shit AND THEN build a house on top. water rises literally centimeters and its all fucked.
Camden Russell
that looks fucking retarded
Xavier Richardson
What an ingenious concept.
Instead of man always trying to fight nature and bend it to his will, the Dutch have found a way to embrace nature and all its imperfections, by creating a bridge which follows the natural slope of the river.
Indeed, it is a reflection that, we too, as human beings, form a part of nature.
Joseph Sanders
>Millions of cubic kilometers of concrete
Colton Mitchell
>Expecting economic sense from a pole, king of subsidies
Xavier Brooks
i am talking about this particular house. if you were to live there wouldnt you want to be ABOVE sea level even when it rose?
Mason Adams
you're looking too deep into it, you sound even more retarded than that """bridge"""
Dylan Diaz
More like 100 at most..
Caleb Thomas
>implying the water level isn't carefully regulated
Brayden Turner
The idea of integrating nature into our structures is a growing trend in architecture.
>“It’s about the building blending into and embracing the natural environment rather than try to push against it,” he said.
>Gillespie described the building’s form as expressing a feminine side of architecture as opposed to a masculine one.
>“When I see that building, that’s what comes to me,” he said. “There is so much testosterone in the real estate business that the last thing it needs is more of that.”
>Kuma said the scoops out of the building’s form bring natural light into suites and give more of a view of Lost Lagoon to the west. As well, for someone standing further east on Alberni and looking west, the scoop on that side will frame the lagoon in Stanley Park.
>“We’re trying to create a new flow on (Alberni) street,” he said.
>“In that sense, we’re not designing the volume — we’re designing the flow. That scoop is creating a natural flow between the buildings.”
Owen Harris
That's also quite common, but in this case the dyke is used to form an island so you can pump water from the lower area into the higher area and build houses there.
Also the water on the right used to be sea but they turned it into a freshwater lake, so the water level is regulated.
There have been dykes since the 7th century
Xavier Davis
your picture is exactly what i meant. you can play with fire all you want but essential area should be well above sae level just in case.
Samuel Hall
how many meters on the left below sea level
Jason Cruz
Dykes were pretty common, even the ancient Egyptians and Romans had them. I was thinking more of our bigger projects like the Deltaworks.
Mason Martinez
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Adam Watson
Well then you'd have to destroy half of the houses built here kek. Dykes (if well maintained) are reliable. Last major flood was in the 50s before the construction of multiple storm surge barriers.
>Noordoostpolder
Literally the biggest mistake ever to reclaim that land. Should be flooded again including Urk
Thomas Cook
yep, romans were awesome
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
all of them still in use, actually in Spain we have a shitload of them
en.wikipedia.org
>mfw we have infrastructures thanks to the romans
Matthew Rodriguez
>My whole country is a reverse bathtub
Pretty neat, desu.
Do you also have a 2nd layer of dykes, just in case?
Ian Kelly
Brandon Phillips
where do you get the earth to do these works?
Ryder Foster
They don't have mountains anymore
Nathan Wilson
This is also kinda based
Brandon Price
myself?, I admire Dutch Hydraulic Engineering