The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well

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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  Год назад +5696

    The "hanging in midair" work is a tensegrity structure: the word's clear in the subtitles, but if you're just listening you might not catch it. Steve Mould has a great video on how those structures work!

  • @6023barath
    @6023barath Год назад +5209

    The professor seems like such a lovely person! So calm and passionate about his work and his students' projects.

    • @sinfyl.
      @sinfyl. Год назад +44

      He is 😊

    • @TimCortesi
      @TimCortesi Год назад +39

      And quiet. Like... I kept having to turn up the volume because I couldn't hear him.

    • @LindsayDaly
      @LindsayDaly Год назад +236

      He's like an architectural Bob Ross.

    • @fvux5393
      @fvux5393 Год назад +11

      @@LindsayDaly Exactly what I thought!

    • @CalPolyCAED
      @CalPolyCAED Год назад +81

      Faculty member Kevin Dong is exceptional! We're very fortunate to have him at our college.

  • @dylanlollar6045
    @dylanlollar6045 Год назад +3030

    I love how soft spoken and passionate Kevin is about this project, can definitely tell he's a good professor

    • @MrJoegotbored
      @MrJoegotbored Год назад +84

      His softness brought me in too.

    • @99Plastics
      @99Plastics Год назад +66

      bob ross of architecture

    • @marvin19966
      @marvin19966 Год назад +1

      don't be mistaken, his bedroom performances are akin to war crimes with bodies layered on top of bodies, dripping from the pleasure of his nuke of love

    • @sinfyl.
      @sinfyl. Год назад +3

      He really is

    • @LordDragox412
      @LordDragox412 Год назад +19

      In reality, he's just an engineer who enjoys watching architects suffer trying to bring their stupid designs to life and hurt themselves in countless ways. /s

  • @philip4534
    @philip4534 Год назад +8653

    I bet the structural engineers love the architects that have actually build their designs and seen how ridiculous a 50ft cantilevered concrete slab is

    • @AlfaGiuliaQV
      @AlfaGiuliaQV Год назад +360

      It is also often very cost driving and mechanically complicated to ensure the structural rigidity and load bearing capacities.

    • @Burner.Account..
      @Burner.Account.. Год назад +1070

      No, we don't. In general, we don't want the architect to ever know that it's possible, coz the fuckers will make us do it. That said, I'm not structural, I'm building services, and the number of air ducts I have to design to fit under floor/ceiling voids designed for cable trays is more than I want to remember, and then there's the contractors who thinks I'm the idiot who designed it that way.

    • @notoriousgoblin83
      @notoriousgoblin83 Год назад +323

      ​@@Burner.Account.. I'd hope that seeing the stupidity of their design would make them stop, but it will only make them worse.

    • @petergerdes1094
      @petergerdes1094 Год назад +345

      I don't get all the people here complaining that architects or engineers might choose to have them build things that are possible but difficult.
      Do you really just want to build the same generic structures day in day out without any challenge? It might seem like that would make your life easier but it won't. If you have less tricky details to deal with your job will become more like that of an assembly line worker and you'll be pressured on time.
      Don't get me wrong, I certainly think it's worthwhile for architects to understand both what's possible and the costs of various kinds of construction. But not because it's good if they avoid challenging features but because that lets them avoid wasting the money on a challenge that doesn't add much to the building and spend it on the parts that really make the building stunning.

    • @Nelo390
      @Nelo390 Год назад +476

      @@petergerdes1094 "Do you really just want to build the same generic structures day in day out without any challenge"
      Yes please.

  • @ad89593
    @ad89593 Год назад +1222

    Tom, this happens to a degree at the University of Kansas in a program called Studio 804 - except the builds are real single-family homes that go on the market or stand-alone buildings/additions on campus. The students do all the design and construction labor except what has to be performed by licensed tradespeople, and even then they learn from those trades how to design in a practical manner. They also teach the students how to design green buildings and every build for years has been LEED certified.

    • @JohnHudert1
      @JohnHudert1 Год назад +35

      How do we start an organization that can link all architecture programs together? I went to Unv of Miami and wondered why they didn’t use students to design things around campus

    • @chrisjenvizzuso9316
      @chrisjenvizzuso9316 Год назад +24

      wow so they actually built things that have a purpose!?!? get hip cali build all ur homeless homes.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад +16

      The students doing both the design and construction is really interesting to me. Doesn't seem like something that would be common in the job market, but would definitely be a valuable experience to many.

    • @sara-ww8eq
      @sara-ww8eq Год назад +3

      +++ this would make a really cool video

    • @vulixirus
      @vulixirus Год назад +15

      @@chrisjenvizzuso9316 i agree with the sentiment, but building more homes won't solve homelessness, we already have a lot of empty homes

  • @johnkeefer8760
    @johnkeefer8760 Год назад +365

    I went to school there. That geodesic dome looking structure was amazing for having bonfires in. There was even a little stage built in there. Great memories

    • @anthonycarrillo5076
      @anthonycarrillo5076 Год назад +27

      Going to school there right now! Ride high!

    • @brianhecimovich4488
      @brianhecimovich4488 Год назад +21

      Graduated in June myself, and arch graveyard was just an awesome place to hike and hang out. Cool to see it in a Tom Scott video

    • @jessecmason2352
      @jessecmason2352 Год назад +17

      Cal poly actually has a hammock club that goes out there and hangs their hammocks on the dome all the time

    • @silviastarlight5
      @silviastarlight5 Год назад +5

      There are still concerts played there all the time! Though people climbing on it during concerts is making it unstable

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT Год назад

      Nice! I thought the concrete stair steps looked like audience seating. Do you know if the dome was originally thought of as a performance space or has it been re-purposed?

  • @murdoph
    @murdoph Год назад +424

    Kevin seemed like such a lovely, soft-spoken guy. Really interesting how devoted the university is to letting students put their craft in practice.

    • @chrisray1567
      @chrisray1567 Год назад +21

      The Cal Poly motto is “learn by doing”, so things like this are how they live up to those words.

    • @Trek001
      @Trek001 Год назад +10

      We need an ASMR video of Kevin

    • @sketchitDotBiz
      @sketchitDotBiz Год назад +4

      That’s indeed sort of the point of most programs at Cal Poly. I majored in a program related to graphic design, and it was unlike any others I know of in that we got to work industrial printing presses and focus more on that aspect or the production of products and not just design.

    • @CalPolyCAED
      @CalPolyCAED Год назад +5

      We couldn't agree more! Dedicated in 1963 by CAED Dean George Hasslein, the Experimental Practices Laboratory at Poly Canyon is intended for Learn by Doing experimentation that seeks to abolish the distance between theory, design and construction.

    • @dannysh4418
      @dannysh4418 Год назад +1

      I took a structures class with Kevin last spring, and he really is that soft spoken. It was a bit of a struggle at 8am trying to learn about solving indeterminate structures haha

  • @silviastarlight5
    @silviastarlight5 Год назад +209

    Oh my god you covered poly canyon, I used to go here all the time when I was a kid! My parents we’re both students when I was born. I used play CARDS with the people who lived in the modular house

  • @MrLevtastic
    @MrLevtastic Год назад +3916

    Referring to it as an art gallery instead of a graveyard should become more commonplace, because I can't help thinking that the current popular term for it is part of why it feels more "ok" to spraypaint the structures. That being said, I also think some enterprising student could create something there which is *meant* to be spraypainted, so give those graffiti artists an outlet!

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 Год назад +342

      get 2 flat surfaces next to each other
      write "grafitty here" and "not here" respectively
      observe

    • @spoon7053
      @spoon7053 Год назад +198

      @@NoNameAtAll2 and make sure the one you want graffiti on says “no grafitti”

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns Год назад +13

      Calling it a gallery require that there is information, caretakers etc.

    • @seanseoltoir
      @seanseoltoir Год назад +25

      Here in Texas, tagging / graffiti is considered "criminal mischief" and if done at night, deadly force is authorized...

    • @TheMaxqb
      @TheMaxqb Год назад +103

      There's actually been a PR campaign to stop calling it the "architecture graveyard" and start calling it the "design village." There's even a yearly design village competition where groups of students build smaller, temporary structures to showcase (and sleep in them overnight).

  • @stephenwilliams163
    @stephenwilliams163 Год назад +1100

    Would have liked to have seen more of the structures. I'm sure Tom could have gotten some great shots from his jetpack.

    • @loj114
      @loj114 Год назад +24

      Leaving some just in case people go out to visit the park probably

    • @VigorousGoat
      @VigorousGoat Год назад +10

      I think they showed almost all of them except for 3 or 4

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад +23

      Some would say drone footage would work fine, but no, it has to be a jetpack.

    • @keeperMLT
      @keeperMLT Год назад +10

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I would accept video from Tom walking on a high wire as a replacement for the jet pack.

    • @ChrisBChips
      @ChrisBChips Год назад +3

      One of the ones they didn't show is a prehistoric-style house and is near impossible to film inside of. It echoes a lot and has probably the densest spraypaint in the canyon. I get why he didn't show that one.

  • @bobfystro4935
    @bobfystro4935 Год назад +466

    This is located where I live. Crazy to watch videos of all these unique and amazing places Tom takes us to, and then to see one of a place you have been is surreal.

    • @minorii24
      @minorii24 Год назад +7

      same!

    • @newskybox
      @newskybox Год назад +14

      For real, I'm going to school here right now haha.

    • @ICountFrom0
      @ICountFrom0 Год назад +9

      any chance you'll be inspired to go out with a bucket of white wash?

    • @Erin____
      @Erin____ Год назад +16

      I’m a cal poly ARCH grad, it’s cool to see this video! We did Design Village back in the day and slept there overnight. This was always the spot for freshmen students in the dorms to go get drunk or have a smoke on the weekends, too. Maybe bring a few cans of spray paint. The structure with the street signs used to be a little (abandoned) house with kitchen countertops and everything! Looks like there’s more structures than I last saw, gotta get up there for a hike one of these days

    • @CalPolyCAED
      @CalPolyCAED Год назад +14

      We were just as excited to meet Tom and give him a tour of the Experimental Practices Laboratory at Poly Canyon!

  • @CalPolyCAED
    @CalPolyCAED Год назад +83

    Many thanks to Tom and his team for this remarkable video. CAED Dean Christine Theodoropoulos sends her regards for a job well done.

  • @OnceandFutureSoph
    @OnceandFutureSoph Год назад +780

    This place looks really cool! I'm sure there must be so many architectural designs that never get put to scale and it's crazy to see things like a full-sized tensegrity structure!

    • @sinfyl.
      @sinfyl. Год назад +6

      It’s really great. It’s easy to get to if you’re near the area and I would encourage you to go if you have the chance! 😊

    • @AlphaLeader42
      @AlphaLeader42 Год назад +1

      It is just last year we on the weekends architecture students built their own shelter to where they stayed up at architecture graveyard overnight. And students were free to just walk up there to take a gander.

    • @CalPolyCAED
      @CalPolyCAED Год назад +6

      We're glad you think so! We're very proud of our students and faculty who continue to demonstrate why Cal Poly's acclaimed College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED) is the only program in the nation with nine degrees in five closely related departments: Architectural Engineering, Architecture, City & Regional Planning, Construction Management, and Landscape Architecture. They uphold the value of positively influencing the forces that shape the planning, design and construction worlds.

    • @pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042
      @pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042 Год назад +1

      Full sized tensegrity structure? they have built full size ones of them before, there is a bridge in Brisbane that is a tensegrity structure.

    • @tantamounted
      @tantamounted Год назад +1

      My father taught me, and a large number of Boy Scouts, how to build a floating flagpole, which is also a free standing tensegrity structure. I've seen one pole reach almost 21 feet high, while its lower end never touches the ground, all made of sticks lashed together and lifted up with twine.

  • @taitano12
    @taitano12 Год назад +378

    It's also an Architectural Engineering and Science museum. Every piece is a demonstration of design and engineering principles that Architects need to know. A demonstration of skill.

    • @itisnotmeMARCO
      @itisnotmeMARCO Год назад +4

      I think many of the projects over the years have had collaboration with students in the Architectural Engineering and Construction Management departments as well at Cal Poly.

    • @csanadhorvath
      @csanadhorvath Год назад +1

      what skill? these look like they were designed in a few hours. no clue how they got founding for some of these, 95% of them do not have a future real life purpose or function.

    • @subiout
      @subiout Год назад +18

      @@csanadhorvath they aren't built for those purposes. They are built as art pieces that the students can go up and explore/hang out. I can also assure you they weren't designed in an hour. There is so much that goes into each project. I have no idea why you have such a negative perspective on it. (I am currently a student at Cal Poly studying architecture)

    • @subiout
      @subiout Год назад +12

      @@csanadhorvath for instance, the geo-dome is used to house concerts and student everyday hang hammocks from it, many of the other projects are used for other activities and are just great places to hang with friends

    • @taitano12
      @taitano12 Год назад +10

      @@csanadhorvath Well, you have various types of arches, structural joints, suspension and staying systems, girder and pylon designs and a number of things you learn about in Architectural Design and Engineering courses that are given real world demonstration in these pieces. Building a cable stay system on a table out of popsicle sticks and twine, or simulating a fabric draped concrete structure on a computer is one thing. Building an IRL version that demonstrates the techniques and application of theory is another.
      If I need you to design and build structure that will be difficult to achieve, and you can point to an art piece that demonstrates that particular look and say that you and your classmates did exactly what I need or want - or a close approximation at least - then I know you have the skills and knowledge to pull it off. If I'm learning a technique or style that is difficult to get across on paper, it's nice to be able to go and inspect a physical example.

  • @twojuiceman
    @twojuiceman Год назад +137

    That architecture professor is wonderfully soft-spoken

  • @ellak2950
    @ellak2950 Год назад +44

    Current Cal Poly architecture student here. I’ll be working on a new small structure for the canyon this year!

    • @michaelblanchard4751
      @michaelblanchard4751 Год назад +3

      That's fantastic! Best of Luck!

    • @TryinaD
      @TryinaD Год назад +1

      All the best! I was think whether creating a structure vandals can actually decorate and maintain would be interesting in Poly Canyon. Has any group ever had that idea? It maintains itself!

  • @aaronmorris1513
    @aaronmorris1513 Год назад +142

    Yay! My alma mater! I remember visiting Poly Canyon when I was a freshman back in 1993. I still recognize some of the structures after almost 30 years.

    • @cdouglas6
      @cdouglas6 Год назад +5

      Same era as you. It was fun to see the new structures. And the old ones still standing.

    • @sb308
      @sb308 Год назад +5

      Graduated this past year and this was one of my fave places! Had a picnic with friends here one time, so it has good memories for me.

    • @CalPolyCAED
      @CalPolyCAED Год назад +6

      We're so glad to hear stories like these from fellow Cal Poly and CAED alumni!

  • @G1itcher
    @G1itcher Год назад +118

    I could listen to this professor talk all day

  • @kn0bhe4d
    @kn0bhe4d Год назад +52

    It's got a "liminal space" vibe to it....can't really explain it, but it makes me melancholic, like I'm looking at old ruins where people once went about their daily lives.

    • @nadernad_
      @nadernad_ Год назад

      Would be wack to live there

    • @chaotickaro938
      @chaotickaro938 Год назад +8

      in person its absolutely that vibe, especially at night! there are a few structures that can be climbed on and seeing all of the structures all around you in the canyon basin is really surreal

    • @CharmEng89
      @CharmEng89 Год назад

      same, esp that modular house with the missing rooms

    • @jacobreed8593
      @jacobreed8593 Год назад

      Have visited Arch Graveyard many times, it definitely has that liminal feel, like you're looking at the ruins of some bizarre society

  • @TinyLegs15243
    @TinyLegs15243 Год назад +54

    Proud Alum of CalPoly! Hiked back to the architectural graveyard many times during my time there!

  • @forgingluck
    @forgingluck Год назад +104

    As a recent Arch grad I'm so jealous of those who were able to build there. That's idyllic.

    • @SjoerdSoundz
      @SjoerdSoundz Год назад +1

      Why be jealous??? If you got a briliant idea, get in touch with companies that will fund you. Get a piece of land and the materials..

    • @forgingluck
      @forgingluck Год назад +6

      @@SjoerdSoundz that's a bold idea without active backing of a college..... I love it, I'll look into it! Already been looking into some cheap land out west I could easily get.

    • @SjoerdSoundz
      @SjoerdSoundz Год назад +1

      @@forgingluck Cool! Hope you succeed. Maybe you can also put up a gofundme, good luck!

    • @forgingluck
      @forgingluck Год назад +1

      @@SjoerdSoundz thanks fam!

  • @i_like_hike
    @i_like_hike Год назад +52

    I went to school here and explored these projects when I was there! I love that you found it! Thanks Tom. What a memory to bring back.

    • @anthonycarrillo5076
      @anthonycarrillo5076 Год назад +3

      Going to school there right now! Ride high!

    • @Jdban
      @Jdban Год назад +1

      It's interesting that they ripped out the walls for the one built over the creek and the other one people lived in. Makes sense though

    • @brianhecimovich4488
      @brianhecimovich4488 Год назад +2

      @@Jdban there’s a toilet and outlets in one of them too, but yah not surprising they removed all the amenities to keep people from living there. Now its really like a big playground

    • @MikesTropicalTech
      @MikesTropicalTech Год назад +1

      Hey Patrick, were you on the biodiesel committee with me and Margo?

    • @i_like_hike
      @i_like_hike Год назад +2

      @@MikesTropicalTech No wasn't me unfortunately. I was a GRC/Comp Sci guy. Graduated 2012.

  • @Cytrillex
    @Cytrillex Год назад +45

    Hi Tom! Thanks for visiting my college's campus, I love hiking in and around arch graveyard. My friends and I refer to the dome at 1:06 as the "discussion dome" because we often end up having deep conversations late at night in the dome haha. I hope you enjoyed visiting San Luis!

  • @MrMojo23100
    @MrMojo23100 Год назад +8

    Fascinating designs, though what made me laugh was the "Don't STOP Daddy" on the stop sign at 3:13.

  • @nlabonte
    @nlabonte Год назад +48

    I sincerely think there should be more of these. Get architecture students something akin to a hands-on experience, crowdsource a long-term experiment to see how these structures perform "in the wild," perhaps even provide a bit of inexpensive housing in exchange for the cost of upkeep for these (although I think this last one is a bit iffy).

    • @charleslambert3368
      @charleslambert3368 Год назад +6

      I'm on the mecheng side and having to get parts for my final project milled by the machinists in the workshop really taught me some stuff about lead times and feasibility.

    • @paulhaynes8045
      @paulhaynes8045 Год назад +2

      No architect should be allowed to practise until they have built something and actually lived in it for a year or two. Then they might be fit to design things for other people to live in.

    • @alessandroortiz
      @alessandroortiz Год назад +8

      @@paulhaynes8045 as an architect, i think our importance to the final "livability" of a building is vastly overestimated by the public. Owners, contractors, subcontractors, the various trades, and the banks have more sway on what you see than the majority of architects. I've had to tell contractors to rip out waterproofing because they installed incorrectly, but god knows what gets done when the city and the architects don't see it before it gets covered up or if the owner/banks demand egregious cost-cutting.

  • @markgnorthcott
    @markgnorthcott Год назад +61

    Given the recent Canada Trip, I actually thought this was a trip to the Guild Park in Toronto based on the title. It’s an actual place where a rich guy collected architectural art and scattered it around his yard, then after he died it became a park.

  • @strowbridgewatson4799
    @strowbridgewatson4799 Год назад +12

    Such a proud alumni here..,I’ve spent so much time in that park hiking around, doing silk acrobatics from the dome and hammocking on some of the sturdier structures. Really good memories and so glad Tom did a video

  • @cynnicysm
    @cynnicysm Год назад +3

    “For the things we have to learn before doing them, we learn by doing them” is a fantastic quote.

  • @coredumperror
    @coredumperror Год назад +74

    Oh wow, I attended Cal Poly, years ago, and I remember visiting this place! It had fewer structured back then, heh.

    • @skillinp1388
      @skillinp1388 Год назад +2

      I was in ROTC at Cal Poly, we used to run out there every week, and sometimes we did drills out there on Thursdays too

    • @coredumperror
      @coredumperror Год назад

      @@skillinp1388 Running out there and back would definitely be a good bit of exercise. IIRC it's not *super* close to campus.

  • @thewiseturtle
    @thewiseturtle Год назад +12

    There's a similar experimental architecture place in Vermont called Yestermorrow. It's a design-build school, and the students can stay in the buildings while attending the workshops. The school teaches responsible, sustainable, creative building, so there are buildings with living roofs, tree houses, and a really funky outhouse.

  • @KathySierraVideo
    @KathySierraVideo Год назад +14

    Oh wow 😭 memories of daily runs in the canyon when I was a student there. I’m thrilled to see it again here, Tom, since I now live 1,000 miles away. Also happy to see (after alllll the years passed since I was there) it’s still *alive*… not a graveyard, but a physical/structural, evolving “journal” of student ideas, effort, and passion. ❤

  • @OptimusPhillip
    @OptimusPhillip Год назад +39

    Here's an idea for you. Alfred Yankovic studied architecture at Cal Poly in the late 70s. So there's a non-zero chance that one of these buildings was designed by Weird Al!

  • @dannysh4418
    @dannysh4418 Год назад +5

    OMG KEVIN!! It's so cool to see my structures professor show up in a Tom Scott video!

  • @shinyagumon7015
    @shinyagumon7015 Год назад +19

    Love the idea, not only does it give upcoming architects the chance to see one of their projects realized, but it also gives them a more practical idea how their future job works.

  • @TheZapan99
    @TheZapan99 Год назад +4

    "It's open to the public, if you're on campus everyone is welcome to explore the area... especially in the afternoon and on week-ends, there's quite a bit of foot traffic."
    He proudly declares, while ascending a clearly unsafe water-eroded path with zero maintenance work.

  • @IxionGames
    @IxionGames Год назад +23

    Finally, a Tom Scott video on a place I've actually been to and hiked around! A very cool place, would recommend a visit.

  • @nucleargandhi2709
    @nucleargandhi2709 Год назад +3

    Cal Poly student here. It really is a lovely place. I can go out on my bike and in 10 minutes I can be in one of the buildings just chilling. I went out once with my flute and surprised some visitors with music.

  • @jacobgetzler294
    @jacobgetzler294 Год назад +111

    Virginia Tech has a similar site for architects and engineers out on Inventive Lane. It isn't as isolated or public, but there are some cool stuff out there.

    • @moosegoose3159
      @moosegoose3159 Год назад +2

      Ironic as Virginia Tech is an actual graveyard.

    • @rick-says-hello-world
      @rick-says-hello-world Год назад +10

      @@moosegoose3159 I bet you thought you were really clever coming up with that.

  • @ECWyne
    @ECWyne Год назад +4

    I attended Cal Poly and my roommate was an Architecture major! This is so great that Tom got to visit and show the world!

  • @justsomeawesomeperson6396
    @justsomeawesomeperson6396 Год назад +2

    I’m a carpenter, and most of the work i do luckily doesn’t involve an architect… but the few times i did, it was so annoying. Just the things you get told to do that either make no sense, or just aren’t possible. And then having to go back and re do everything because it only looked good on a drawing. I like the idea of architects actually making something real and learning about what works and what doesn’t.

  • @TheGrinningViking
    @TheGrinningViking Год назад +12

    I feel like Tom Scott has encouraged a very particular kind of anti-vandal that shows up with a bucket of whitewash and some cleaning or repair supplies.

  • @misslovedog8177
    @misslovedog8177 4 месяца назад +1

    i'm a current student of the other cal poly, and i really love the idea of poly canyon. It really embodies the cal poly's motto of "learn by doing"

  • @jackielinde7568
    @jackielinde7568 Год назад +6

    It's not just an rt gallery./ It's also a testing lab of sorts. Since these structures are left in place and exposed to the elements, you can see how these ideas hold up. Everything decays and falls apart over time. This way, you can come back and look at how these structures are holding up and where likely failure points might be.

  • @SirSmithThe1st
    @SirSmithThe1st Год назад +2

    Never thought I would see my alma mater on a Tom Scott video. I have so many memories of walking around and (occasionally) climbing on some of these

  • @RobBulmahn
    @RobBulmahn Год назад +3

    Hey! Never thought I'd see my alma mater on here! I enjoyed hiking back up in Poly Canyon.

  • @matthewma1008
    @matthewma1008 Год назад +1

    That professor is the sweetest person I've seen in a long time

  • @Argo460
    @Argo460 Год назад +3

    Never expected to see Cal Poly show up on my feed specially with one of my old professors!

  • @gugus8081
    @gugus8081 Год назад +2

    That guy is so chill, it's really pleasant hearing him

  • @GabeMillerMusic
    @GabeMillerMusic Год назад +3

    Ayyyy SLO resident and Cal Poly grad here! Thanks for covering this Tom!

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад +2

    That architecture professor just seems like the friendliest person. I love his chill, California vibe. Definitely the kind of person I would trust to be in charge of kindling creativity.

  • @EnabiSeira
    @EnabiSeira Год назад +7

    It also serves to see how the materials and structures hold themselves through time and weather.

  • @ianmcconnell7108
    @ianmcconnell7108 Год назад +6

    Kevin is an amazing professor! I just had timber and masonry design with him this last quarter

  • @theohtml
    @theohtml Год назад +4

    As a calpoly student it is so cool that you came to our campus!! I bike up here all the time!

  • @Erin____
    @Erin____ Год назад +1

    Cal Poly architecture grad here! There wasn’t much construction activity up there when I was in school... except for the yearly design competition where we hauled temporary structures up the hill and slept in them overnight! Happy to see more new buildings.

  • @Artillect0
    @Artillect0 Год назад +9

    I loved seeing these buildings when I visited Cal Poly, so many great designs!

  • @wesleybantugan5604
    @wesleybantugan5604 Год назад +4

    Something to note, there are several Cal Poly’s in California. For those here: this is at Cal Poly SLO (San Luis Obispo)

  • @flicsmo6838
    @flicsmo6838 Год назад +1

    Wow, I love hearing Kevin speak. He's so soft-spoken yet concise and easy to understand - as someone with language and auditory processing issues I can't remember the last time I heard what someone was saying that clearly. I'd love to have him as my professor.

    • @dannysh4418
      @dannysh4418 Год назад +1

      i had him last spring and he was just as soft spoken and patient. his class was brutal though haha

  • @ZMW7
    @ZMW7 Год назад +23

    Professor Dong is so soft spoken. He seems great.

  • @PrimevilKneivel
    @PrimevilKneivel Год назад +1

    Reminds me of Guild Park in Toronto. The original owner collected architecture from buildings that were being destroyed and placed them on his land. Now it's a park with odd pieces of buildings and sculptures scattered throughout. Perfect for wedding photos

  • @daedbeetle
    @daedbeetle Год назад +5

    i think the art at 4:04 looks nice :)

  • @NauticalNorton
    @NauticalNorton Год назад +2

    Shoutout from a Cal Poly student! Thanks for showing others our lovely Arch Graveyard, I’ve had tons of fun up there. Dates, MTB races and more. Cheers!

  • @ceomg
    @ceomg Год назад

    As a former cal poly student, I’ve visited this site a few times. I’m so happy to see it being shared with the world, especially by Tom Scott.

  • @Inspirator_AG112
    @Inspirator_AG112 Год назад +14

    Unrelated, but Tom Scott should cross the dateline (west) by _this_ year's New Year's Eve to experience a 364-day year and a 367-day year. (Since he is a traveller.)

  • @adzaaahhh
    @adzaaahhh Год назад +2

    This is a superb idea. Speaking as a former construction worker and nowadays (for the past 26 years) a civil engineer, this exercise gives potential architects a taste of practical challenges encountered in the real world; something which unfortunately, in my experience, many of them often appear to be detached from.

  • @maccrazy7335
    @maccrazy7335 Год назад +14

    Any chance for a longer exploratory video? I would love a long/uncut walk through that canyon!

    • @jacobandersen9912
      @jacobandersen9912 Год назад

      search cal poly slo architecture graveyard, and im certain something will come up if not a few somethings.

  • @PuffTheMAgicDragon43
    @PuffTheMAgicDragon43 Год назад +1

    As a Cal Poly Architecture student myself, it's so awesome to see this exposure! I love this place and have been visiting for many years.

  • @sandy-lo
    @sandy-lo Год назад +5

    I really think you should go back to poly canyon and make a deep dive special, exploring more of this place. I would love to see more of it!

  • @aaronturner2615
    @aaronturner2615 Год назад +4

    Hey, cool!!! I went to CalPoly, in the Architectural Engineering major. The Poly Canyon is great fun, and I've been out there many times. At 4:23 you can see the structure that my roommate did.

  • @EngineerLewis
    @EngineerLewis Год назад +4

    As an engineer I was very curious about the designs and how the weight of the structures (plus human loads) are passed down to the ground. (load paths). Pity we did not see all of them! But thanks for the video and discussion with Prof Kevin.

  • @NickRoman
    @NickRoman Год назад +161

    Yes, the invention of canned spray paint changed our building scape forever.

    • @sferg9582
      @sferg9582 Год назад +13

      That would be a great project for the near future.... making structure repel or shed graffiti and spray paint attacks.

    • @moosemaimer
      @moosemaimer Год назад +18

      @@sferg9582 supposedly superhydrophobic coatings help with that, but most of the ones I've seen don't hold up to the elements very long.

    • @janslavik5284
      @janslavik5284 Год назад +23

      @@sferg9582 There are already materials resistant to spray paints, you just wash them with water a couple of times and the paint slides off. The main disadvantage is of course the price of these materials.

    • @agustinvenegas5238
      @agustinvenegas5238 Год назад +86

      Graffiti is as old as cities, there's "bob was here" type stuff written by vikings in hagia sofia, dicks drawn over the walls of pompeii by its original inhabitants and, my personal favourite, a thousand year old writing of "wow this is high" on the ceiling of a cave they had to build scaffolding to reach

    • @MadMorgie6318
      @MadMorgie6318 Год назад +23

      Though Pompeii and Herculaneum show that graffiti has been around almost forever and with much of the same contents.

  • @ash36230
    @ash36230 Год назад +6

    Given the state of some buildings we've thrown up in the past 20 years, I walk past an architecture graveyard every day in the city centre

  • @joshwarner5676
    @joshwarner5676 Год назад +1

    Wow, did not expect to see a Tom Scott video at my alma mater! I used to love going on runs through the architecture graveyard. Lots of really cool structures there.
    Very surreal seeing Tom do a video of a place I'm actually quite familiar with.

  • @Qsie
    @Qsie Год назад +6

    Happy 2023, Tom! Best to you, and your friends and family 😄

  • @Samouraii
    @Samouraii Год назад +3

    I like that he's talking softly like it's a real graveyard and he's showing respect

  • @michaeluplandcausa7878
    @michaeluplandcausa7878 Год назад +3

    Alright Tom!
    I loved sand skiing on one (water) ski (cut in half and waxed to the hilt) down the dunes of Morro Bay when I went to visit my friend Eva at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (SLO). Being a fellow Cal Poly (Pomona, though) student getting a call at 2:30 a.m. to expect me there for breakfast was just normal - in 1976.

  • @andrewspilberg5023
    @andrewspilberg5023 Год назад +2

    I worked on the Greenhouse for a bit in the mid - late '80s. The intention, at the time, was to use it to grow orchids for use on the student built Rose Parade float. I also remember visiting a professor who was living in the canyon at the time. Happy to see the canyon is still in use. However, it is sad to see the graffiti and other vandalism.

  • @MikeC96
    @MikeC96 Год назад +24

    I went there! Arch graveyard was a great place for hikes in the daytime and bonfires (of questionable legality) at night

  • @DrDingsGaster
    @DrDingsGaster Год назад +1

    This has to be one of my more favourite videos done recently. It's just the right amount of fascinating and informational. Really fantastic.

  • @waxmydrinski
    @waxmydrinski Год назад +3

    Honestly one of the best smoke spots for large groups in the area

  • @SilverDawnArrow
    @SilverDawnArrow Год назад +2

    This seems like a great asset for the students, just to visit and get their minds in a creative groove

  • @Sensei_BigJoe
    @Sensei_BigJoe Год назад +6

    I love and appreciate the struggle Tom feels reguarding wanting to show and share these places to the world vs risking the world invading and destroying them.

  • @charcharbug
    @charcharbug Год назад

    thank you for the consistent uploads after so many years. hope you have a relaxing 2023!

  • @jackagnell4781
    @jackagnell4781 Год назад +5

    as a student, looking at the graffiti is half the fun of visiting. it is art in itself, and the building is a canvas. Kids write poems, draw, and other stuff. it makes the buildings feel like a true expression of the student body, not just an advertisement for the architecture college. If the school didn’t want graffiti, they should make the houses look like something you shouldnt graffiti. They surely didnt have that problem back when people lived in them.

  • @Muffinshaker
    @Muffinshaker Год назад +2

    As a 1974 alumni … I’m proud to be a Cal Poly graduate. 👏👏👏👏 thanks Tom.

  • @FrenchesOP
    @FrenchesOP Год назад +3

    So happy Tom's pet ferret gets to be with him on his shirt at all times.

  • @ulalaFrugilega
    @ulalaFrugilega Год назад +1

    Oh, how I hope that ppl with paint will show up there, next!
    Thanks, Tom!

  • @tarobrob513
    @tarobrob513 Год назад +7

    Should be funded and turned into a welcoming park where events are held and just fun stuff! We need more of this!

  • @jonathankipps9061
    @jonathankipps9061 Год назад

    Graffiti is such a scourge. I've done some exploring in long-abandoned houses. There's something philosophical about enjoying an old house for what it is, without feeling like I need to "make it mine" by splashing it with spray paint. I wish other folks could learn to do the same.

  • @goodboi650
    @goodboi650 Год назад +9

    These videos often leave you wanting so much more. Now I'm itching to know why they stopped having curators live in the buildings!

    • @EthicsGradient
      @EthicsGradient Год назад +6

      The answer will be "money". And possibly a side order of "health & safety".

    • @jongrey1916
      @jongrey1916 Год назад +5

      @@JoshuaCasey - Having electricity and running water doesn't mean it meets modern health and safety codes needed to be granted an occupancy permit.
      By that standard I should be allowed to live in my fiend's work shop but I'd never get a legal occupancy permit because the septic system isn't rated for occupancy(it has to be able to process a certain amount of waste per occupant/bedroom), nor does it meet fire codes for occupancy, nor is the HVAC system acceptable to ensure basic air quality, nor is it sealed properly from gasses and the elements, nor numerous other things it fails to meet under current codes.
      This isn't some off-the-grid cabin in the woods built by DIY it's a university that has some strict standards and legal liabilities to deal with these days.

  • @brianhecimovich4488
    @brianhecimovich4488 Год назад +2

    I just graduated from CalPoly in Architecture this June. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to participate in any “arch graveyard” projects, but it was my favorite place to hike and walk around in all of San Luis Obispo

  • @bubonicmouse2623
    @bubonicmouse2623 Год назад +5

    In the Turks and Caicos we had some one in the 80s build experimental house out of asbestos they were trying to test how well they survive hurricanes. The funny thing we we weren't hit bye a bad hurricane till Ike it in the mid 2000s they survived Ike and Irma just fine.

    • @johnmiller8884
      @johnmiller8884 Год назад +2

      A couple of Architechure professors built a Strawbail home in a canyon North of San Luis known for intense fires to demonstrate fire resistant design. It was the only structure to survive the Tassajara Canyon fire.

  • @davekennedy6315
    @davekennedy6315 Год назад

    This is the bloody coolest thing I've seen, I'd LOVE to have a walk around all this incredible art!

  • @samuelrj2350
    @samuelrj2350 Год назад +12

    I used to hate the graffiti but last time I visited, it was my favorite part. It's fascinating. What do you decide to say or draw with your small contribution. So much love and pain and loneliness and appreciation. And more mushrooms than I remembered, haha.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад +4

      Destroying art is never cool, tagging is a hateful crime.

    • @ashardalondragnipurake
      @ashardalondragnipurake Год назад +2

      depends wich you think is art

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад +2

      @@ashardalondragnipurake *Depends on which one is crime....*
      *If you paint on your own canvas? It's Art... If you paint over someone else's canvas? It's vandalism.*

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

      @@ashardalondragnipurake *Destoying someone's art is a hateful crime... no matter how you try and "paint it"*

    • @ashardalondragnipurake
      @ashardalondragnipurake Год назад +3

      so you admit that washing off the art is a hateful crime

  • @worldssmallestfan
    @worldssmallestfan Год назад +1

    It feels like a monk decided to go into academia. Very calming presence from the professor.

  • @WillyTheComposerOfficial
    @WillyTheComposerOfficial Год назад +6

    It’s funny how Prof. Dong speaks so quietly outdoors, as if the buildings might fall over if he spoke too loudly. He must be a calming presence in real life.

  • @metakarp_
    @metakarp_ Год назад

    The whole art gallery out in the open-vibe reminds me A LOT of Wanås in southern Sweden, which is an international art exhibiti in - you guessed it - the forest! It's been going since late 80s, so some of the artwork there is quite old but there are new additions every year! Some temporary, only for the season, but some are meant to be permanent.

  • @tgheretford
    @tgheretford Год назад +19

    "Ruined by too many RUclipsrs" - see also, Rufford Mill Ford, as to what happens when the authorities intervene.

  • @quacener246
    @quacener246 Год назад +1

    Being an architectural engineering student here, love it! They also call it the structural garden on campus, and it's truly an amazing place to be.

  • @opusmaximum
    @opusmaximum Год назад +3

    "This isn't an architecture graveyard, it's an art gallery."

  • @infernox1099
    @infernox1099 Год назад +1

    It's strange, when I think of someone who would be teaching architecture students, someone like kevin dong comes to mind, even though I've never seen him before, just how he looks and acts just radiates a perfect energy for teaching people who can sometimes have eccentric ideas and it's lovely