Why we cannot build like this. Why the cyberpunk city is impossible to build?
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2020
- #architecture #buildings #skyscrapers #futuristic #cyberpunk2077
How high can we build? Or rather how boldly? Today we will try to explore why a cyberpunk city is impossible to build and maintain, architecturally speaking.
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Its totally possible. Many cities in china are already looking like this.
Hong Kong
"Why isn't it possible? Why not you stupid bastard?!??!?!?!"
Tokyo
Chongqing
Shanghai
It's a fusion of Dubai's massive towering skyscrapers and Tokyo's glaring misty neon atmosphere.
We need Chinese Japanese and Korean builders to help us build cyberpunk cities
No thanks!
It would use a lot of electricity to really make cybepunk city with neon lights and stuff.
Mean while China lining all buildings in a city with lights for a colourful night sky line
I thought neon used no electricity, it’s chemicals that make the glowing color( different chemicals make different colors)
@@ooogabooga4836 the chemicals make glwing color by coming in contact with eletric current and very eneficient. LED lights use much less eletricity and are much cheaper and thats why it replaced neon as a standard
not at all , other than a 850w power supply ... anything above that it's just a wast of electricity hahaha
Most cyberpunk cities are using Nuclear. In Cyberounk 2077. It's located in the city.
Look at Shanghai China?
A cyberpunk city is still not quite fully done as it represents a couple themes that really give them their domineering presence. Namely 1. Density 2. Sprawl 3. Poverty, inequality, violence, depravity. All of these sort of combine into the same theme to create this place that is almost always portrayed in cyberpunk media as undesirable and as quoted from 2077: “the worst place to live in america” . However, there is a certain charm that these themes have when all combined. It’s the most glamorous, but also the most primal version a city can take. One filled with things to do but also full of wonder and those neon lights making one feel pretty comfortable. An eyecandy city that will shred you apart if you dare to get near it. Still won’t change my opnion that a megacity is my favourite type of city
Well, cyberpunk cities can technically be able to exist on mars, since it's gravity is almost 1/3 of earth's, and the buildings can simply go way higher
Are you 12
@@liberalbias4462 No I'm 16
@@Synthanarchist that explains it all.
@@liberalbias4462 I'm 8 hi :)
China already has cities like this. We’re not quite to flying cars yet but we’re making progress.
Most of the Asia Pacific region is already in cyberpunk mode, for the most part. China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, you name them.
I've lived in China, in a newer district in the city of Hangzhou. Shit looked pretty cyberpunk.
I dont think gravity is the most influential role here, as in burj khalifa’s case, we can build as high as over 800 m n still obey the laws of gravity, architects in the future will easily come up w a structure that can go high without opposing gravity, i think whats really stopping us from doing this is the purpose, why should we build these high structures if it doesnt serve any significant use? whos going to take care of them?
You answered your question. Burj Khalifa serves no practical purpose too. It exists for publicity, not to be a good building
That is just like your opinion.
There are loads of buildings with these styles the difference is there not covered in neon and led lights with holograms thats the only difference
China, hong kong, japan makes it possible.
Look mate, I just wanna know if we can get something close to a megablock from judge dredd and cyberpunk 😂😂
I thing build a single Mega structure 1mile² would definately stand the test of time. Build them 50 to 60 stories high, apartments of all sizes and different income levels, the building would have schools for kids, gyms/ workout places, restaurants, grocery stores, retail shops, hospitals, dental, movie theaters, mass transit access, car garages, open air parks and recreation areas, rain water capture, every floor has multiple trash bins that have no bottom to them(trash shoots), robust safety(fire/water/electrical etc.), foot patrol police on every level (or armed security guards), public area security cameras (monitored 24/7 by on site operators) no AI surveillance/facial recognition, and so so much more.
It is possible.... but you're forgetting the key word for all of the advancement and that is "purpose" what is the purpose for all of these buildings? and that is to house and occupy billions of people due to over population, the world isn't over populated yet so there is no need to build massive structures.. as for vertically there is still no purpose for building high buildings, is it possible yes with the right foundation and structural integrity yes... but the relevancy for high buildings is limited by the amount of access we have to high places, simple we don't have tall buildings because we don't have flying cars to get us there so there is no purpose/ need for them... and everyone can't afford a personal helicopter
building higher has plenty of problems. It not about we cant build but imagine thousands of people pouring out of a building at 5pm, the massive issues when dealing with water supply, insane amount of energy it uses, coping with a staggering amount of trash
@@-TranNguyenMinhKhoi- large amounts of people are the whole reason for building bigger and taller, you can't make a building that houses 100,000 people and expect all of them to gracefully enter and exit a doorway that should be on a building that houses 700 people.. thats why there are Megaplex's...
Trash isn't much of an issue if it's disposed of correctly, we don't want an idiocracy situation, and as for water supply and energy, these mega buildings are big enough to have their own water purification facilities and energy generation plants underneath them... you still have to remember all of this is for over population and we as a society have not gotten there yet... we aren't even close to having the amount of people it would take to populate a massive city like that... so there is no necessity for building the future we were promised..
@@thebigXgaming true... when we will need, we will find a way to make it.. as evidenced by history
@@morticias5043 yes exactly!
It’s almost like architects plan something out as they build it. If you want to go higher you shore up the building underneath it and make certain the foundation can handle the increased load. With futuristic modular buildings made from lightweight, dense materials it’s extremely possible, and in fact probably the way humanity will go in the next hundred of so years. Especially in places like India, Tokyo and currently China.
We need Chinese builders to teach you and Japanese
You just need to know the physics of the buildings that’s all.
Really well made video! Keep up the good work :D
Shanghai: Ahem. I exist.
Not really, come visit Asia sometimes. Especially Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Hongkong, Shenzhen, and a ton of other cities in East and Southeast Asia
but what about a stonepunk city?
amazing video!
The montage is amazing !
Cyberpunk buildings have lots of pointless skybridges connecting each other. Very dangerous if they should come loose during an earthquake and plummet to the streets below and crush cars and people.
buuuuuuttttt they look cool
There are actually a reason for the sky bridge that are high, bc if you work in a tall skyscraper and you need to go to another building for whatever business, you don’t want to take elevator all the way down to level 1 and walk to another building right?
And bc cyberpunk buildings are normally buildings stacked on each other, the stairs and elevators won’t match up with each building. Hence sky bridges are built to cut time from traveling from building to building.
since in cyberpunk, they are technologically advanced and are able to build so much tall high rises and skyscrapers they must have a way to stabilise a building and hence a earthquake won’t do no sh*t
its actually a trend from the fukushima island in japan or something, the massive artificial floating island that was abandoned... that place had big boxy residential buildings with bridges connecting floors between them.. of course, the bridges did tend to break and destory people's homes... also they had no railings, so it was a fucking death trap. they have a documentary on youtube of this.
I live in Calgary, and our downtown is full of skybridges. We even have an entire mall that stretches across multiple blocks, raised one story up so roads can cross underneath. Admittedly, almost all of the skybridges are at second floor level, but they serve an important purpose: people can walk between buildings without having to cross the street below and hold up traffic. The climate here is an important factor too, because it’s nice to be able to stay inside for the whole day when it’s -20°C in the winter.
In Night City from cyberpunk 2077 for comparison, it’s in a part of California which is already hot, but with added global warming and acid rain it makes sense to have a network of enclosed spaces. With their advanced tech, it’s even easier to build skybridges higher and resistant to earthquakes. Also, with their flying cars, and the corporate takeover of society allowing architecture to be unbound by regulated public space, i think the crazy verticality of the city makes sense.
Night City infrastructure is kinda messy too
Because it is messy. Afaik, building codes are lax and there's also that whole corporate competition and profit over people motive going on, resulting in buildings being not up to code and high-rises (especially corporate) that cut into the competitor's plot of land once it reaches a certain height, forcing the competitor to build *winding* structures to go around the obstruction.
You didn't prove that building this city is impossible. All you did was talk about the challenges of building it… Fail.
Flying cars would allow for garages halfway up the structure allowing for that type of verticality.
What about building downwards instead of up?
if not on earth, then on the moon!
That's why you get artist like me to design cities.
Writers, artist, world builders.
We're very good at doing that.
Can we build cities like this today?
No I don't think so.
But already we discovered new elements. We have 3D printing of Organs
And other body parts, and a bunch of other stuff. My point is tech and new discoveries is always going to improve or be discovered. And we will get there.
ARE YOU BEHIND THE TIME!?
I think it will be possible in the future
People don't understand that these concepts, commonly taken from movies and art, are not coming from the minds of scientists but from writers and artists with very little technical knowledge of their subjects. These are then targeted towards people who also don't have the technical knowledge to grasp the realism of the concepts and that breeds unrealistic expectations of the future. If you had a time machine and brought back a teenager from 1989 who had just walked out, wided eyed, from a screening of Back to the Future II and showed him the actual future, not just of 2015 but of 2022, there is little doubt he would be sorely disappointed.
Or someone who had just watched Blade Runner in 1982 and transported them to Los Angeles in 2019. They would even more disappointed to see the real life Los Angeles in 2019 still looks pretty much the same the Los Angeles of 1982, just with a few more skyscrapers in the downtown 😂😂
go to Hong kong
It's Design not Height that needs Done. We Need a 75 Feet tall Building and yet they make 45 Feet Building but make it Cool Looking does it matter if it's 75 Feet Tall. Anyone took a 1970 & 1980 Person and time Travel them here today they believe whole Heartly they are in a Cyberpunk world. because they never seen anything like it. in the Eyes of 1970\1980 and the future they dream of.
Awesome video dude
Thanks, this video is exactly what I wanted to see
great video❤️
We can live fine in today's cities and do not need vertical cities NOW, but in meanwhile future with population exponential growth we will be forced to live in "cyberpunk" world. Also we do not know what may be our future needs, so maybe there will be other purposes in building such cities. Tourist attraction is enough reason to build such city even for today. Also people surely will find solutions for today's problems of such cities, like faster and more accessible public transport, flying cars, shuttles and delivery drones.
Some cities do need to be verticle Now. Vancouver BC is one such cities. Not enough land for the infrastructure needed for being one of the most popular cities in the world.
Correction - America can't. China already has built cities like this.
Are you German?
yes, "ze"
can u say "squirrel"?
no but honestly no offence, I do find you video educational and interesting
China has more
Gravity can be overcome with future anti-gravity tech. This video is full of limiting beliefs. Very poor analysis.
Your video is wrong. Once you build high enough, gravity works in your favor. While gravity pulls the building down, it will also pull the building up. What holds us back is that we are realistic and the people that made the awesome stuff we have today were anything but realistic. They were intelligent but they were also dreamers. Finding a mix of architects AND politicians in charge of building codes to BOTH be intelligent and dreamers are what holds us back from this reality. Maybe in China. But not in America or clearly anywhere else for that matter. Humans, as always, are the problem.
China can