What are "Earthscrapers?"

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[@RickCarroll-j5n]

This is a negative temple design and it makes sense since Mexicans like sacrificing kids and random people this design is that of the black negative temple that holds the worst evil entity in existence known to Indian culture for years stay out of Mexico folks

[@dallassegno]

How did you not think flooding would be a problem? An expensive problem.

[@ironhell813]

@dallassegno It’s not even viable because of this. Some people just have to justify their middle class existence with ideas like this.

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First Video omg, I was looking for more in your channel. Can't wait for more, this is awesome. Thank you!

[@Beeontree]

Mexico City, the city built on a giant natural lake. What a great place to build underground 🧠

[@aarondavidlopezdegante7884]

tbh it will never be build, im from cdmx and theres no way it gets permition to use the historical plaza

[@duquepp2078]

i was just thinking th same, mexico city is a joke of city planning

[@JohnthemapguyADHDMe]

Exactly what I was thinking! Like I can see it being built in a area like Washington

[@enolopanr9820]

isn't the ancient aztec capitol underneath the city?

[@RighteousInquisition]

@@JohnthemapguyADHDMe The first comment was saying how Mexico City was built on a lake Washington DC was also built on a swamp and River tributary

[@Aethgeir]

This is one of those ideas (like hyperloop) that would make a lot more sense on a completely different planet with different challenges and conditions.

[@ackmandesu8538]

Long way of saying it makes no sense lol

[@jawharp1992]

This reminds me of the habitats used on Ceres in The Expanse books

[@Jonas-Seiler]

Where would the hyperloop make sense?

[@n0vanox]

what’s hyperloop

[@BionBios]

Different planet...They do happen to live in giant sinkholes on Utapau in Star Wars...

[@GeneralKenobi69420]

An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare, and an engineer's dream is an architect's nightmare

[@mihaleben6051]

So... do archictecs love air resistance?

[@gibble75310]

an engineer's dream is a mechanic's nightmare

[@leonardosangaletti9949]

@@mihaleben6051 yes we do, is called ventilation

[@basilcurrie8138]

As an architect, it's my nightmare too. It'd be like living in a building facing someone else's window

[@yuribezmenovthegreat4705]

I think an engineers dream is a architect dream in the eclectic architecture and in xviii century architecture

[@bearliongaming2464]

the prospect of rain and floods in such a place makes me shiver

[@johnshite4656]

And I've seen the flooding in Mexico during rainy season. It's no joke. Turns the streets into rivers.

[@SamFigueroa]

My first thought when I saw the thumbnail was: flooding and water. Glad you addressed it.

[@ozAqVvhhNue]

It wasn't addressed good enough. A single failure point would quickly fill up the entire volume with water. How do you detect if a bad actor is drilling a hole somewhere?

[@SamFigueroa]

@@ozAqVvhhNue I don't think anyone is "accidentally" drilling through 2 meters of concrete. HAHAHA, it already hurts to try that in 20 cm

[@ozAqVvhhNue]

@@SamFigueroa do you know what the term 'bad actor' means?

[@tylerian4648]

​@@SamFigueroaYou think there won't be any plumbing in that place or something?

[@SamFigueroa]

@@tylerian4648 That should all stay inside of the barrier behind service walls separating it from living spaces. + living | service | 2 m barrier |

[@ir0nsight280]

"Building it down into the ground has natural thermic insulation" yeah dude, but the ground gets warmer, not colder the deeper you go. 3°C+ per 100 meters down Imagine living at the bottom, where is 9 degrees hotter than on top, there is only sunlight for 3 hours a day (during summer only) and if the foundation cracks, water with shoot into the hole with 100 bar pressure this thing would be amazing as an abandoned project taken over by gangs in the next cyberpunk game

[@doricy.]

dogtown type shit

[@danser_theplayer01]

The concept of making a downwards building really "tall" is very weird for multiple reasons. 1) Windows! No matter how big of a window up top you will make, the building will steel feel like a deep pit, you will feel like you're at the bottom of a well, just the top "mega window" won't be enough light. 2) Water! If any extra water from a flood or a broken pipe has to go somewhere, it will likely go literally drowning bottom residents, considering the funnel shape of the building. 3) Dirt is harder than Air! That's right, unlike with scyscrapers - if you want to build a downwards building you'll have to dig and also dump somewhere TONS of dirt, rock, whatever other inconveniences you may find. 4) Service paths! For a deep building you will have to dig much deeper and all around it to lay down electric cables and water pipes. 5) Light! Continuing the problem with windows and VERY limited sunlight as you go deeper down the building, the eletricity consumption will rise by a lot. 6) Ventilation! You'll have to use even more electricity and dig even more dirt to constantly force the air down to the bottom of the building. A real engineer will probably spot ten more problems with this that I'm too lazy or incapable of finding. Architects seemingly always manage to come up with the most impractical and atrociously complicated ideas that they *want* to work, doesn't mean they do work.

[@IsakLevana]

Tbh the only relevance this concept has here is the last sentence, because all the previous points are intuitively assumed, but the last sentence is a straight up true prediction that'll be funny as hell, bc architects get so proud when their ideas work Also, "doesn't mean the do work," well yeah, but doesn't mean they don't, which is the only interesting part of architecture in general

[@GillfigGarstang]

@@IsakLevanaWhat does it mean for a design like this to ‘work’? I don’t think anybody thinks a structure like this is impossible to build; there just isn’t any good reason to take on so many extra design and engineering challenges unless you live in a world where buildings need to be kaiju-proofed or something.

[@neoquitoy9161]

An Architect's dream, A Engineer's nightmare.

[@radicalfishstickstm8563]

I mean if the concept was just a little more lateral than vertical, this could be possible for shops and walkways like in some major cities. As for building homes I doubt anyone would want to live there.

[@henrymccoy2306]

@@radicalfishstickstm8563 This very true and was my first thought as well. If they had gone for something more reasonable, like maybe house 1,000 people in a building 10 storeys deep? Make it more oblong (rather than a square) to better capture sunlight? That would be way more reasonable then this absurd idea of 100,000.

[@Stonehawk]

although video games are seldom a good source for information, broken clocks are right twice a day et cetera. This all reminds me of Rapture from Bioshock: "Build it like a tub or it will become a sewer." Drainage is a huge issue when your structures are extending *beneath* the water table. The entire thing will have to be a watertight vessel. Like a boat embedded in the earth. In order to make drainage even basically possible, you will likely need to dig out cisterns to rapidly drain off sudden inflow. The cistern would be a sort of buffer to prevent runoff from backing up. The cistern would also necessarily have specialized dedicated fluid purging machinery - massive pumps for pushing the truly gargantuan quantities of water out to make room for more. This is all going to add a great deal to the cost of operation, just in terms of maintenance alone, without even considering the energy costs for when the system needs to RUN. Towers are, for better or for worse, better disposed for ventilation and drainage. Also, excavation is astonishingly expensive, far more so than construction. There's a reason we don't bore tunnels everywhere.

[@unclepaulie4233]

subterranean buildings and tunnels are expensive, like energy/defense r&d labs. or military installations. subterranean real estate is not for civilians, i'd wager "we" do have quite a few tunnels everywhere. There is little information why the Japanese didn't go through with their groundscraper. They probably did, to a degree. They are making the AI robot army in there. Nothing empirical on my end, just hunches and creative thinking.

[@Stonehawk]

@@unclepaulie4233 well there are several damn good reasons for japan to *never* build such a thing: 1. it's tectonically active. alleged rhetoric about "sometimes tunnels are even safer in an earth quake" aside, even IF it were less likely to sustain critical structural damage from an earthquake or geothermal eruption of some kind, if it DID it would be utterly catastrophic. Building collapses suck, but can you imagine if a residential groundscraper CAVED IN? The humanitarian crisis of it? you can't just dig it out willy nilly, further disturbing it would very likely cause the cave-in to settle FURTHER and kill even more people who were trapped. On the surface, you can approach such disasters from many angles and perform the careful extrication of survivors with a lot less complication. 2. the whole nation is an island. yes there are some areas quite a bit above sea level but its biggest urban center is on a bay AND encounters tsunamis, coastal flooding, and monsoons regularly. Tokyo, for further instance, required a massive cistern system that inspired the cisterns level in the original Mirror's Edge game. 3. who's it even gonna be for? population numbers are crashing *precipitously* in japan right now, even if it weren't for civil residency, staffing any kind of industrial, commercial, scientific, or military facility of this kind would be much more economical if one were to simply bulldoze much of the abandoned surface structures and rebuild something where they once stood. you know where an 'earthscraper' might actually make sense, though? ironically enough... the moon. You'd be hard pressed to find a better protection from solar and interstellar cosmic radiation than several (to several hundred) meters of lunar regolith surrounding you on all sides. there is no liquid water table, furthermore; any water on (or in) Luna is gonna be frozen solid. In areas that we might build habitats, any HVAC/environmental systems we are using to make it a comfortable temperature will not thermally penetrate the regolith more than a couple meters tops. but at that point we'll be eschewing natural light entirely because outside of an atmosphere ten miles thick "THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER". If anything, earth--that is to say, MOONscrapers are a far better habitation option for humans on the moon than any over-the-surface structure.

[@KyleP133]

I can already guess this cistern should likely be the volume of the pit-scraper itself, and it will get drawn up at some slightly more reasonable total volume, and then engineers on location will shrink it further, and then builders will shrink it even further....

[@unclepaulie4233]

@@Stonehawk you should make a video to explain i cant read

[@zacharythomas8617]

​@Stonehawk ...make a video.

[@Negative_UTTP]

"THE SECOND DRILL HAS HIT THE NORTH EARTHSCRAPER!"

[@hyy3657]

119 tragedy, we should never forget about.

[@DecemberGalaxy0]

@@hyy3657 611

[@minecat1839]

Disrespectful and distatesful, at least fix the math

[@バンシアの]

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[@ThatGuySquippy]

Incredibly innovative idea for a structure chosen to be built at one of the most incredibly disadvantageous locations in the world.

[@methoxii]

While in some countries the entire water pressure in the pipes is handled by gravity alone, without using any pumps, here all the wastewater has to be painstakingly pumped up. It's an absolutely dogshit concept. Just imagine if the pump fails, good luck being on the lower floors.

[@solveyoutube]

Man didnt think about that. Good point

[@_gungrave_6802]

You're mentioning something that is a neutral point though. Skyscrapers have to pump water up but sewage goes down with gravity. Earthscrapers are the reverse with sewage up and water going down. Only real difference between the two is that Earthscrapers would likely need sump pumps to deal with ground water seeping in and fires are a much greater threat to those in an Earthscraper.

[@Remsster]

@@_gungrave_6802 Pumping sewage vs water in NOT the same thing.

[@salce_with_onion]

@@_gungrave_6802 Man, if water fails, I dont have shower. If water pipe fails on lower levels- someone is going to die, very painfully so.

[@_gungrave_6802]

@@Remsster You missed my point entirely as I was talking on the differences when it comes to design and not what is harder to pump upwards.

[@_WyngX]

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[@victor_.]

Biggest problems for me: poor sunlight and no natural ventilation

[@HUEHUEUHEPony]

i hate sunlight and people who open windows

[@amazingbutno5303]

One way mirrors and reflective surfaces around the sides of the hole could be used to get sunlight down towards lower levels. but it would never be like being above ground

[@slav4335]

​@@amazingbutno5303 with mirrors you would have the issue of fires starting from focused light

[@iainrickwood2623]

​@@slav4335I think he means like the idea of the Japanese depthscraper at 2:57, a giant mirror that reflects it downwards indiscriminately Presumably itd have to be deliberately made more convex than concave just for the best chance at avoiding any one focused point of reflected light; but that doesn't change the fact that a big mirror used to avoid focusing light would be massive and butt ugly in the imagined skyline of the Mexico City earthscraper

[@frankweldon5993]

Dracula u ain't slick​@@HUEHUEUHEPony

[@nathanlamberth7631]

sounds like building a skyscraper, but you have to remove a small mountain of material before you start building. Plus dense smog will drift right down.

[@goiterlanternbase]

Dumb on so many levels🤣👍 Especially each one below ground😏

[@michaelsurratt1864]

Trying to change everything about building because of one stupid regulation

[@theclassypineapple]

0:13 dwarves talking about human architecture

[@eduardoarmenta9232]

He even has a dwarve sounding name, Torgeir

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Bruh this gonna be DRG

[@maximtabashov5639]

ROCK AND STONE!

[@AdvanAviantoy]

"I am Torgeir" definitely of dwarvish ethnicity

[@JPJosefPictures]

Now we get to build Coruscant.

[@safebox36]

Underground office blocks was something I was surprised hadn't been done sooner when I was a kid. Eventually I realised it was because of earthquakes and it's much easier to lower someone in danger out of a skyscraper than raise them out of an earthscraper.

[@MarcusAseth]

aren't elevators needed in both cases?

[@KaiayaRules]

@@MarcusAseth No, you never want to rely on an elevator in an emergency situation. Especially during a fire, they will most likely become death traps.

[@ultimate9056]

​@@MarcusAsethropes exist. With gravity you only need a way to slow how fast you fall going down. Going up you need to spend a bunch of energy to fight against gravity which is very dangerous in situations like fires were moving upward is most dangerous

[@jordanalexander9362]

Yes, now we can go to work in an actual giant pit of despair instead of a figurative one. Imagine how laxadaisical things will be when it's that far out of sight. Who will go down to investigate maintenance and other issues? You know the boss's office won't be at the bottom. Also, see the meme about "The children yern for the mines." as I feel it's applicable.

[@andrewbecker1013]

Lower someone out of a skyscraper? Okay, how many people were lowered out of the windows of the Twin Towers on 9/11?

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the animations are so clean

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[@QuantumShenna]

I understand that it is very typical, when presenting topics like this, to brush over the major challenges involved, but I'm still kinda disappointed. The problems mentioned aren't quantified at all, not all important problems are brought up (that's a lot of dirt you have to haul, and the bottom of the hole is probably rock which would require blasting), and potential solutions are not discussed.

[@Eggplanter_2027]

I don't really think that there are solutions to those

[@LOUPER_GAROU_WOLF_MAN]

There are not solutions to such problems this will never the leave the concept board

[@davidsentanu7836]

​@@Eggplanter_2027I think this might be possible to be built on an valley. You go down but basically still on the ground at the same time (just different ground level.) Basically like a skyscrapper that's fused into the side of a cliff.

[@kylestanley7843]

​​@@davidsentanu7836 Ah, a valley, where flooding is even more of a threat because rain that lands on the adjacent slopes is _also_ your problem. I shudder to imagine a landslide or mudslide near one of these things. It'd be literally inescapable.

[@unclepaulie4233]

maybe some commenters will have a solution, no survey necessary!

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I fantasized about this also for most of my life. I’m glad to see others have the same idea. It just makes so much sense. You can also tap on the geothermal properties of the walls for extra energy.

[@ObserverOfPakleds]

I can see a few issues with earth scrapers, depending on region: sewage removal, rainwater removal, snow removal, toxic/flammable/explosive heavier than air gases, no air circulation to carry away odors, mold/mildew, and radon gas. I'm sure these can be solved with some engineering, but it would probably be expensive.

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[@kimbleangus7321]

The term is usually "blow up?"

[@flink1231]

The concept is just like a sim city arcology but below ground. Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

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2:09 ladies, don't come wearing skirts

[@jelaninoel]

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[@maerosss]

Allowing free access to the "roof" of this thing means people down there will definitely NOT get maximized sunlight, as the top will be constantly flooded with tourists.

[@jade_orb]

Ooh. That's a good point I haven't seen anyone make.

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2:32 Daft Punk spotted

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That was great, I think your channel will do well

[@dawuxt_gaming2788]

One of the best if not the best video i have seen on this topic

[@joshualee-reid867]

I'm curious, what is preventing them from building retaining walls as they dig down (as are done horizontally when tunneling) to avoid the need for such massive construction zones? It would be complicated and take a long time to do of course, but I figure that would be worth avoiding the impossible cost of bulldozing an entire neighborhood to build one of these things.

[@errorhostnotfound1165]

Perhaps the size? Not sure, but that does seem like a good idea, better than pouring the concrete as you go

[@HagiaFantasia]

Yes we need more Earth Scrapers 🥹 And please make them art deco like egypt please 😊

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Thank you 🥰

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[@xdyps]

That is so cool, thanks for sharing. I just imagined 4 of these built next to each other , with bridges between, and then the city was flooded and because of the rising ground water they was left floating as a raft 🤯

[@cheydinal5401]

You ignored how with this design, you reduce the number of walls that can have windows in them by more than half. So half your rooms, at least, that previously had a window now just simply don't, at all, like in a fallout shelter or something

[@goiterlanternbase]

With led lights, windows are no longer necessary🤗 Even with 70w HID lights, the costs of a window, level out after 17 years.

[@SkyQuakee]

I watched the whole video before realising this channel only has 2.5k subs, very underrated channel

[@aquacactuscheeseburger]

Great quality video, loved the animations! However theres a few additional issues to consider. - The risk of decompression sickness would put a limit on maximum depth in order to allow people to safely evacuate from any level - this type of structure would not work with many existing services. Buildings like this would get in the way of drainage, metros, etc Overall its a good concept, and I think up to about 10 storeys would function well underground. A pyramid shaped building with an earthscraper shaped void in it extending a handful of storeys below ground would be a good compromise that would harness the positive aspects of this design, as well as looking awesome

[@solveyoutube]

Thank you for the well written comment :) There are countless of downsides related to the concept. But I had to try to balance it out with the upsides 😅 One major issue is also avoiding the arcological objects under mexico city. The city consist of layers of layers of old cities

[@GillfigGarstang]

The interior is open to the air so the air pressure wouldn’t vary any more than it would between the top and bottom of a skyscraper. If you were building in Mexico City you could dig ~2km before reaching sea level, in which case the air pressure between the bottom of the ‘tower’ and the top would be no different than the difference between that of sea level and the cabin pressure of an airplane.

[@wolfsoldier0875]

fire first vid dude, excited to see you grow

[@markchang2964]

0:35 it is simple, runoff and pollution.

[@dalewheat]

Such lovely visuals! A very interesting future concept for architecture. Just because we can’t do it today, doesn't mean we should think about doing it in the future.

[@ReflectiveLayerFilm]

The was an awesome presentation. Looking forward to your next one.

[@jamesgizasson]

Bad idea. Egress from this deathtrap will be a nightmare. Seriously. They'll make a movie. XD

[@vic6730]

resident evil

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[@Zeep_goblin]

Was anyone surprised this 3D editor had only one video to his soon to be very auspicious career?

[@jade_orb]

I was

[@hopperchopperstudio3685]

2:07 You would be standing on glass above a 300 metre pit!

[@TheOneCity1]

Yess !!! Id love it personally!

[@hopperchopperstudio3685]

@@TheOneCity1 ok just dont look down

[@WilhelmB]

Thank you for a nice video. Earth scrapers isn't a new concept, and I think what is interesting about them is that it forces you to reimagine your perception of both verticality and how to handle multi-level logistics. What will most likely happen in a large scale is a combination of going down and up simultaneously, with several transportation levels, to disperse congestion and population density. So far I haven't seen a good solution to this issue in large scale, but if you take earthscrapers, it is not difficult to imagine several earthscrapers with tunnels interconnecting them to alleviate both transportation and safety.

[@giulianodenardi7654]

4:40 Skyscrapers? Earthscrapers? No no, Waterscrapers.

[@exquisitetoast3859]

That is called a pier (though I would love to call them seascrapers)

[@giulianodenardi7654]

@@exquisitetoast3859 I remember researching this term "seascrapers" and that they had already taken it, and modern pirates will love it.

[@WildWyvern727]

Future site of a lovely lake

[@stijnjanssens571]

great video, but watch out with making the background music to loud. at some point it's a bit difficult to hear you talk because of the music (the music itself is very nice though!)

[@solveyoutube]

Thank you for the feedback :) Youre not the first one pointing that out 😅

[@mmartinu327]

This video has fantastic artstyle ❤

[@Rewind36383]

Why do lenses have shadow??? 3:18

[@solveyoutube]

😂

[@Rewind36383]

@ damn, only 1 minute 👌

[@Hoggex]

It’s fucking 3D all this work and you just mention this one mistake 😂

[@blanktester]

Finally a channel in this space that isn't AI slop

[@St.IsaacOfSyria]

You're going to have entire city blocks worth of glass covering a skyscraper deep hole... I couldn't think of a worse idea if i tried. You do realize glass breaks right?

[@juxyper]

the glass is more likely the least concerning thing, you could get a thick layer of it, or build it in transparent glass bricks, or perhaps use composite binders to make the structure more ductile. the pressure, water problems, upwards mobility and responsiveness to emergencies make it quite infeasible

[@LineOfThy]

Pretty sure everything breaks

[@exquisitetoast3859]

You sound like the kind of person that would say "cars are dangerous because gas explodes". The strongest commercially available in mass glass, in the US at least can withstand more than 7.92 million pounds per square foot even more at higher thickness

[@FriedNoodlee]

THAT was your takeaway from this concept????

[@shadyarockstheworld]

awesome video, keep it up. looking forward to the next one

[@lukazzade69469]

sustainable? thats a fuck ton of concrete!

[@AfterDarkV]

and skyscrapers are much better.. right?? this is STILL a skyscraper, but going underground.

[@bartomolev6682]

​@@AfterDarkVa usual skyscraper uses less materials and is far safer and easier to repair

[@dmontenegro]

Incredible video from a fellow structural engineer! The 3D renders were amazing!

[@wolfie3657]

I don't think it could work on earth, but when (not if) we will colonize mars or the moon, it would be very useful, due to no ground water, additional thermal/radiation insulation and other factors

[@solveyoutube]

Good point :)

[@Poctyk]

It won't be Moon colonization but Moon exploitation for resources, similar to oceans. There is a slight difference

[@xenokitty]

Fantastic video! I look forward to more😊

[@Izanamii2]

These blender animations look so professional, how many years of practice did it take you to get so good?

[@eldrago19]

It's a really bold idea with a lot of potential. I certainly have a lot of questions but I do hope they give it a go.

[@Niviso]

The quality of this video is impressive for such a new channel! The only recommendation I could give you is to lower the music volume a little so we can hear you better.

[@epso7621]

Would be a super cool mall

[@henrys4338]

The visuals in this are incredible!

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Stoked for this new Juez Dredd to come out, cannot get enough of this guerrilla advertising

[@ignoremeforabit]

We turnin Earth into Coruscant with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️💯🗣️‼️‼️

[@AmorMalakain]

Absolutely amazing animations.

[@JoshRichmanDesign]

The renderings are great! what software was used? Silo

[@donald.ducks.stepdad4064]

Cool first video, it was so well done I didn't even realize it was your first one

[@gravityyy9529]

Neo ,Fern ,Hoog and then this channel? I been bless for 3d model documentary channel right now and I wish they were more channel like this.

[@Jet-lx8uh]

This is a very interesting concept. I've wondered for quite a while why it had never been tried even as a novelty, especially for its ability to resist a lot of types of natural disasters. Or simply to double the amount of space that one skyscraper could have by essentially combining the tall building and deep building together. I do think there are ways to either prevent or even harness some challenges or dangerous of these buildings. Like how water tables and even floods can be simply pumped out as reservoirs for drinking water (the earth potentially even doing some level of filtering, making less work on water treatment), and might be able to provide areas for wildlife via artificial lakes in parks in other cases where that is not needed or is not viable. At the very least, the water can be used for hydro electric batteries (an already established and accepted technology) The area required for digging is a much more interesting challenge, mainly for the sake of trying to make a contained first draft in the middle of the city. I'm unsure on the method needed to resolve that, such as either simply making a less steep pit, or if there are engineering methods I don't know nearly enough about to lessen the required dig area. my first theory would be to go back to the cylindrical Japanese method, and essentially making a Drill that is designed to bore the entire path, and then stays there permanently as the frame of the building, slowly replacing the mechanics with a structural skeleton that could then have pre-fab housing installed into the grid pattern that new frame would make. Sorta similar to how large tunnels are bored out (granted those tunnels are MUCH smaller than the scale of the ground scraper proposed in this video, so the realistic result of this method would probably be closer to a city block of multiple holes arranged in a 4x4 pattern either connected above ground or through a grid of smaller walking tunnels. Safety, while a concern, i dont think is much worse than most skyscrapers, especially in these smaller scales, and in some cases i think i could actually be better. For instance, in a major catastrophic flood, lifeboats and floatation devices are fairly easy for most people to use, and can even facilitate multiple people or allow for operators to assist other less capable folks, especially when compared to a skyscraper parachute, which is limited in ability and may take some practice to use. for other evacuations, it may be possible to even double up life boats as alternate forms of escape like hot air balloons or simply being an emergency elevator (possibly hydro-powered again from reservoirs so they do not require electricity). idk just a few ideas. Really interesting concept!

[@adolffranziskus3981]

the animations of this channel are somehow better than the ones from hoog. Instantly subscribed!

[@TempleGuitars]

Your graphics are incredible.

[@p0lishsausage]

This was a beautiful video.

[@scrooge6975]

The whole video looks similar to early XX century scientific publications about space flight. Explaining how the whole idea was so naive because of inflatable energies requirements. Distances and engendering problems. But no more than half a century later. Human beings landed on the Moon Never ask why something is impossible. Ask how it can be made possible. Great video, keep it up 👍

[@markl_og]

Very good channel, please go on!

[@winnie8614]

Amazing graphics you have on this channel! Well, I whish it had bit more polygons in some scenes, but still -- amazing.

[@Eshugga]

This would be an awesome project from the perspective of engineering geology. I could see them doing an open-pit closer to the actual final footprint and using micro tunneling or another method to drill tunnel shafts for workers similar to open pit mining in order to preserve the existing cityscape and avoid slope stability problems.

[@Elogetic]

A true gem, thank you. Subscribed!

[@NilsBrinckmann]

I find it quite interesting, that it is all about building a skyscraper the other way around. A Skyscraper is a solution for building in the air. Of course it doesn't work underground. But this does not mean, that we can't build big, liveable structure underground, we just have to adjust to the circumstances. So we would need to build more like mines and tunnels. Combined with good solutions (mirrors for light, good air circulation systems) I am convinced, that we could generate a lot of space for our towns

[@eclecticsunflowers]

“Now this city, grim old city, it starts to grow. And when it meets with other towns, other cities, it takes them into itself, absorbs them, until soon enough there’s no land left, so the city spreads outwards into the sea, and when there’s no sea left, the city spreads upwards into the sky, and when there is no sky left... It burrows inwards. Like a cancer into the bowels of the planet. And eventually, there is nothing but the city. And so generations live and generations die in the warrens and the tunnels and even the lower levels of the surface, and they never see the sun.” - ‘The City,’ The Mechanisms

[@Victorakaerj]

We are witnessing the birth of a legendary channel here, gentlemen

[@KennethMortel-fi4cr]

Very nice first video!!

[@sarbe6625]

The big problem with earth scrapers is that when you make a big hole, you also need to make a pile that's equally as big.

[@Wertibus]

indeed high quality video, keep it up

[@evanlacagnina3963]

Another thing is that if it were built in any northern cities, like NYC, snow would cover the glass roof unless it were regularly pushed off, otherwise it would be pitch black.

[@EricWalkerswildride]

LMAO, we don't get snow anymore 😭