• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    45·
    3 days ago

    I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

    Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

    The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

    Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      12·
      3 days ago

      how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
        31·
        3 days ago

        North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.

        Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        3 days ago

        The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

        As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    382·
    3 days ago

    We’ve heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

    Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 days ago

      I mean it’s absolutely nuts how many people this building holds. I’m guessing that the majority of towns across the majority of the US land area have populations smaller than this one building. Probably likewise throughout most of Europe. The population density of this building is crazy. 115/km^2 (apparently the building is 260km^2)

      • superkret@feddit.org
        1·
        2 days ago

        Your math is wrong. 260km^2 would mean 10 miles long and 10 miles wide.
        Unless you count floor space, but that’s not how population density is measured.

        And even then, 115/km^2 means every person would have 2 football fields of space.

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      A bit defensive there…. It’s quite literally a harmless meme

      Also, how does this have anything to do with house brain? Most hotels and apartment buildings don’t even come close to the sizes of some of these massive ones in China.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    711·
    3 days ago

    There’s a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        3 days ago

        Pizza Hut makes a deal with the government to put all the pepperoni customers on the same floors, veggie people on other floors, etc. The lava cake freaks… there’s a special floor for them.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      231·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, I’ve delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn’t matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.

      I didn’t go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn’t, their phone number was part of the information provided.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    52·
    2 days ago

    Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      I’m not an expert Chinologist, and it’s a huge country, so it might vary, but AFAIK tipping isn’t really a thing in China.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    3 days ago

    Any apartment building that size should have a couple floors of retail, especially food - they would make a fortune. If I lived there I would illegally sell teriyaki or something out of my apartment. Better still, run it like a street drug business - pay cooks and delivery people, and have distributors in between - they alone know where the kitchens are. Eventually it’s the chicken fingers episode of Community.

      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
        822·
        3 days ago

        It’s a matter of perspective and use — high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

        I’d much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

        • SeekPie@lemm.ee
          352·
          3 days ago

          I’d also prefer something denser than suburban sprawl, but I think there’s a balance point between that and what the post is showing.

          I think that 3-5 story apartments with shops underneath are the best ones, because they aren’t too dense while also not wasting space.

          • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            30·
            3 days ago

            Make those with decent construction so every cough and sneeze isn’t broadcasted to all of your neighbors with good design so it’s disability friendly, and that is the dream right there.

    • Gigasser@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      Arcolgies can be a cool idea though if done right. Granted it hasn’t been done given the amount of resources, planning, logistics, etc required. Still, cool idea.

  • Gladaed@feddit.org
    41·
    3 days ago

    Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 days ago

      Right? I’m mass texting my deliveries “hey I’m out front with about 12 other orders. If you need it delivered to your door here it’ll be a few extra minutes. I’ll head into the building to complete any remaining deliveries at [time]”

      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
        102·
        3 days ago

        I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.

        • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
          16·
          3 days ago

          Why are you assuming 37 apartments per floor? That answer is definitely no sufficient.

          Why are you assuming 4 per apartment?

          Lots of assumptions here. Even being off by a bit changes your estimate by thousands.

        • The Pantser@lemmy.world
          165·
          3 days ago

          This is China, their apartments are casket size. They also do time sharing where one person sleeps while the other is at work and then they swap.

          • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            3 days ago

            This isn’t true for anything built outside the absolute inner cities, which this clearly isn’t,

            They aren’t massive, but they’re plenty reasonably sized and aren’t “casket-sized”

          • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
            9·
            3 days ago

            It doesn’t look to me like the kind of a building that would have this, but sure, maybe you could barely reach 20k is you squeeze people in like sardines.

    • altasshet@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.