What are Earthscrapers?

[@Naxioan]

Sky, Ground, Earth, Water, Long ago the 4 scrapers lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Sky scrapers attacked.

[@Aetherguy-cb9bu]

Alex Douglas nice one lol

lol

[@pilentus]

Ground and earth same thing?

[@drunkenfish6274]

Troopar Pilentus Plays nope. Ground is first level. Earth is underneath.

[@pilentus]

Rahmstation but.... But..... Ok

[@TheManWhoDoubts]

Earthscrapers would be a great idea to build in Mars !

[@TheB1M]

Put our last two videos together?

[@aiyhavnouneim]

It would be called marscrapers

[@MDP1702]

Buildings on mars would need a lot of energy to heat regardless

[@josefcaceres1952]

I like how you think))

[@adriankyles9708]

Archangel17 no

[@major600]

It seems to me that this would only be practical in places with very high demand for real estate whose ground could not support a skyscraper.

[@seraphina985]

Or that is on the glideslope of an active runway or any one of a number of other reasons that cities invoke height restrictions over some or all of their land area.

[@major600]

I thought there was a restriction on buildings not being able to block St. Paul's Cathedral. They can build skyscrapers on sand. Just look at Dubai.

[@jacobhoffman8610]

a reverse skyscraper isnt feasable for the same reasons we cant build cities on the ocean floor + earthquakes - enourmous pressure will crush it weather its open at the top or not - if the ground didnt move about though it would be easy lol

[@isaacoshea]

Jacob Hoffman I'm no architect, but I would imagine it would be possible to design an earthscraper that could handle earthquakes, and easy to design one to handle earthquakes as well as regular buildings - by incorporating into the design room for mechanical slides like for bridges (but for more than a few millimeters), or being detached to other parts of the building (i.e. some earthquake-resistant skyscrapers have pillars in the center that are partially disconnected, that provide structural support, even in earthquakes).

[@darthutah6649]

Or where height limits keep demand from being met by supply.

[@Server90127]

Earth scraper? Isn't that a shovel? 🤔 Good video keep up the great work.👍🏾

[@feynstein1004]

Lmao dude

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Next episode: scraper scraper.

[@TheB1M]

We’re totally gonna make that now

[@goobot1]

You mean an airplane?

[@bharathidevi3667]

@@TheB1M 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Master-kh6ww]

Can someone please make an air scraper or a space scraper?

[@Amigps01]

“Earth scrapers are not buried underground. Instead they extend a considerable distance downwards from the surface.” Uh.......I think that’s the meaning of something being underground.

[@FellowEarthOfficial1]

Amigps01 underground would refer to something completely encased by dirt and actually under the surface of Earth. This however would not be as it had access points on the surface meaning it is not technically underground. Just surrounded by dirt

[@Exodon2020]

Their top isn't covered allowing natural light to get inside the building. Think of it as an inverted regular building.

[@ado3247]

It is not buried, it is like if something falls in a hole, its not buried, its just under the surface

[@joelmorin99]

THANK YOU. That really bothered me too. Its underground. Stop trying to wiggle out of it people! So annoying.

[@smallstudiodesign]

Well he means they’re not buried (as in cut’n cover), they’re bored ... 😐

[@Big_Not_Good]

It's a hole. Ya live in it. Any questions?

[@ikmal-sy9iy]

@zain mudassir jump (Not recommended due to safety issues)

[@cjeam9199]

It’s 2035. You work as a caretaker on the bottom level of the Brazil earthscraper. It’s dark. It’s damp. And you wade through ankle deep litter to get to your desk everyday. Then you start hearing screams and panic from above.

[@TransistorBased]

cjeam That's just your daily routine if you live in Brazil

[@jurijsitar2611]

This should be a wp

[@youstolethecookie]

That's a movie script in the making.

[@concept5631]

Cjeam Caretaker: Guess the nukes are flying.

[@niviamaeva]

@@TransistorBased Sorry to burst your bubble but it is not .

[@veggieboyultimate]

This looks like an infrastructure from an anime series, which is why I think we should make it a reality A silly reason yes I am aware.

[@ahiwdbwodnoeb.anongus]

Forget your virtual reality Cuz now it's virtual insanity

[@alfredhitchcock45]

Umbrella Corporation

[@kaboom323818]

mel saint resident evil, sure what can be done in the movie can be in reality

[@abyssstrider2547]

kaboom323818 Well... It's doable, the cost however... Yeah. Unless you are owning a megacorporation and have few bilions of surplus each year then forget about making something like Raccoon city

[@TheB1M]

What are “Groundscrapers”? - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmrQoWBorJ6UfLc

[@carnagekabuto9759]

Now that a name is already created, let the race begin to see who builds the deepest earthscraper.

[@ilonnolan9259]

-does house of evolution count?-

[@GrandMasterAbe]

There is, just Google the deepest mine in the world.

[@carnagekabuto9759]

They will say that mines don't count as an earthscraper, just as how telecommunication towers don't count as skyscrapers.

[@Maurazio]

Maybe it's doable with an overly complicated system of mirrors, ventilation and water evacuation. But it still occupies space that could be used for a much better skyscraper. And comes in conflict with underground infrastructure.

[@mistermood4164]

i agree, there's limited practical uses for an earthscraper.

[@Mark_v92]

what about a sky/earth scraper? twice as big. halfway underground. make it diamond shaped so its more stable and can support its weight

[@pepps779]

I wonder if the concept might be better served for construction outside of Earth, like the moon or Mars.

[@MrGoatflakes]

Why bother with the complicated mirrors? Mirrors have loss. To the point where you'd be better off using solar panels and artificial lights at some point. And of course it's also true you will probably need extra artificial lighting even in the day, so mirrors and prisms seem a pointless complication.

[@diegosoto738]

There is a mall in mexico city that is not an earthscraper but its a complex of 3 buildings that go down just like a earthscraper, called Garden Santa Fe.

[@profwaldone]

eehm. I have issues with this. I live in an area with a relatively high water table so I may be more aware of this than others. but that inverted triangle would essentially be a giant boat. we have had issues here with semi-submerged parking garages forcing themselves out of the ground after a lot of rain.

[@McRocket]

This was much more interesting then I thought it would be when I saw the title.

[@MTTT1234]

Somehow to me that seems quite dangerous to build such a structure in geological active places, like proposed in Japan or Mexico City. I mean, Skyscrapers are allready prone to collapse in such regions, an underground structure seems even more dangerous to me to its inhabitants.

[@Daniel_ACG]

Jealous

[@youngmo77]

Waterscrapers for volcano prone regions than.

[@kajakkille]

Water proof? it could become a giant aquarium .....

[@Exodon2020]

You can be sure they got that drainage problem sorted out. Still curious how they make water run against gravity in case of a longer blackout.

[@dharmasatya3265]

​@@Exodon2020may be like, basement drainage system, or make glass roof on top of Earthscapers

[@jaime5367]

Fernando Higueras, a Spanish architect, called them “rascainfiernos” (“hellscrappers”)

[@mythiccwindow8307]

O rascasuelos

[@poqbum]

What an insane idea. I hope sometime in my lifetime one of these gets built. What would be even more insane is if on top of the earth scraper there was a skyscraper.

[@ChrisJohnMedia]

Would they not just hit the water table and just be flooded?

[@CyberiusT]

In some places, the water table is a *long* way down. But even in more normal locations, tanking is a thing.

[@thespicehoarder]

Yeah flooding and cave-ins would never allow this to happen.

[@CyberiusT]

If they can build a tunnel through porous rock and soil *under* *the* *ocean* , they can seal up a hole. Also, there are plenty of mines around the place that go well below the water table (even under lakes and rivers) *without* tanking and *still* not flood (at least while they're in use) thanks to pumping and drainage systems.

[@bigdickpornsuperstar]

Yeah, I'm sure that never crossed the minds of doctorate level engineers. ::facepalm::

[@robertbahler9520]

In Berlin, Germany the water table is just beneath the surface, yet they have been building underground for over a century. People always find solutions to these kinds of problems

[@drdewott9154]

Y'know in Copenhagen we have metro stations which could be considered earthscrapers, since they're big boxes with the deepest point about 150ft underground with a clear view towards the surface above with glass windows, the sides of the station extending directly above the train tracks could in theory be used for office space too if rebuilt slightly. So yeah you could say that these metro stations are like mini earth scrapers

[@andreslot6134]

Greetings from Mexico !! I had no idea of that project downtown. Awesome video as always

[@CitiesoftheFuture]

Man we love your videos! 👍

[@rebelbeammasterx8472]

Can't wait for the space scrapers: scrapers that reach the heavens. Hanging scrapers: scrapers that hang down from outer space attaching back to Earth. And floating scrapers: scrapers that go up and down in the sky.

[@GearZNet]

at that point just build neo-cities, less physics related roadblocks to overcome.

[@lepmuhangpa]

It is possible to build a ringworld engineering-wise. Resources would be massive though. And the time for building. No easy feat, very far into the future.

[@jk3jk35]

the 'scraper' series has some serious undertones if something goes wrong and the homes suddenly become prisons.

[@CDawg]

Isn't Mexico City incredibly seismically active? It doesn't seem feasible to me.

[@DarthHater100]

Ask that of San Francisco.

[@CDawg]

@@DarthHater100 Nobody's talking about building Earthscrapers in San Francisco. Are we just naming seismically unstable regions/cities? Your comment makes no sense. On a side note, I watched a doc and did some reading on Mexico City and soil liquefaction is what makes it so dangerous there.

[@docbrown7916]

More on subsurface housing and commercial /industrial stuff would be great. I've always loved underground stuff. Geothermal tech too and general earth sheltered stuff. My late cyber sis ref to me as a tall hobbit, I get more into the tech than the fantasy stuff.

[@caminuyu]

Can another building be built on top of an Earthscraper?

[@TheB1M]

Great question!!

[@plumsmuglers]

Yes and that'd be ideal

[@pepps779]

If using space more efficiently is the goal, then building in both directions would be ideal.

[@sirtrollalot7762]

My first thought! imagine a building that descends 65 floors into the earth but above ground is the height of the burj khalifa. Sadly I think that we are alive too early to witness such marvels

[@LG141602]

Yes. I made a. Design like that when I was a kid. I'm working on a profesional design now.

[@JVIPER88]

In theory, the idea of an "earthscraper" would be to maximize land use, and fit more people in your city. But that isn't actually what would happen. If you take a plot of land and build an earthscraper, unless you want the residents to turn into mole people, you surface has to be transparent. So you can't build anything on that plot of land. Can't even plant trees. So in effect, it's no different than simply building a skyscraper on that land. But I guess if you don't care about sunlight, and have no interest in ever opening a window to get fresh air, being underground would be a great way to regulate temperature without using too much electricity...

[@TacticalFemboy]

Depthscraper defiantly sounds better.

[@Jesuis-qe8ql]

1:40 mi mexico🇲🇽🌮😄😉

[@bobroberts7643]

Raccoon city

[@wolfemanbog4176]

Mexico City built the one pictured in your video can u update this video

[@saosaqii5807]

So basically earthscrapers are bunkers Skyscrapers are super high buildings Oceanscrapers are basically seasteads

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

Most cities are built by the coast or a river, so ground water intrusion would be a major issue.

[@MyDiesel101]

Excellent video. Thank You. Just combine the two, Ground Scraper & Earth Scraper into a Hybrid Ground /Tunnel Scraper. It can several miles long and one can have light residential, commercial, & retail Development around the Light Shafts of the Tunnel Sections. Plus it could have it's own light rail transit system.

[@bonosbones]

I am not sure I would feel OK more than 10 floors down. Interesting video, thank you.

[@highlikejordan1818]

great video

[@TheB1M]

Thank you!! ✊️✊️

[@breadyegg]

"And they call it a mine. A mine!"

[@syedia]

Wow, im impressed on how they edit their videos so good, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK :D UR DA BEST B1M

[@DanielDogeanu]

I think these would be perfect to build on Mars or on the Moon.

[@elBorrachoGuapo]

There have been a few proposals for an Earthscraper in Bisbee Arizona's Lavender pit mine. It is a large open pit, roughly conical. Most of the digging's already been done. Problem is, real estate prices are too low in Southeast Arizona to justify such a project.

[@Nathan_Bunga]

We need to build these on the moon!

[@TheLetsComment]

Skyscraper + Earthscraper = ultimate space usage!!

[@jimschuler8830]

Earthscraper is an incredibly stupid name. A skyscraper is named not because a "scraper" is some kind of tower or building, but because it's so tall it scrapes the sky. This doesn't scrape the earth. It pierces it. Earthpiercer would be more appropriate.

[@creeperlover53]

Sounds like an alien super weapon

[@joelmorin99]

I agree its a dumb name but I am not fond of "Earthpiercer" either. I think Subterranean Tower/building or simply Terra Tower is much better.

[@guykool2520]

WaterScraper.. SandScraper.. IceScraper.. SpaceScraper.. Scraper between Scrapers... 😂😂 😄😄 😁 😁😀 😆 😆😆

[@waywardchild3380]

guy kool 😂😂😂😂😂

[@x9z6x]

Do you mean a Scraperscraper?

[@josiahsutd2666]

And everything changed when the FireScrapers attacked...

[@Myusernamerulez]

guy kool StarScraper

[@VanBurenOfficial]

DEEEP SUCC

[@vgames1543]

And here they are, nice to see that I am not the only one who thought about this.

[@HideorEscape]

The problem of building these wouldn't be too hard. The problem would be to DIG MASSIVE HOLES. Perhaps they could be built at quarries instead. Its not efficient to dig 500 meters in the middle of a city.

[@dalevaughn9446]

Oceanside cofferdams with bridge & rail connect. You can extend both surface and sub surface areas of your city. Usefull in high population area's. Better for budgets,closer to resourses, by land&sea.

[@ABCowl]

How is it safer being in an earthscraper during an earthquake?

[@seraphina985]

Load distribution mostly I would have thought any motion of the ground would be spread out through the building unlike a skyskraper where the entire motion of the ground is transferred to the building via the foundation and the ground floor columns the massive inertia of the building putting a lot of stress on those components in the process.

[@julesmo323]

Do you realize what happens the your structural support that is bearing on soil and all of a sudden you have soil liquefaction. Welcome to your burial chamber.

[@jekku4688]

A giant earthscraper in Mexico city...a city plagued by earthquakes. Great plan. 👍

[@dalevaughn9446]

Just reflood it.

[@syrupgoblin4920]

I love this channel

[@TheB1M]

We love our viewers more!!

[@davidrawlins2862]

An amazing concept and great video, but it would require substantial mechanical drainage systems

[@TheBaldr]

Aperture Science has a pretty impressive Earthscraper.

[@RadeUeMasq]

I get the idea is to take less land, but honestly I think a hybrid of the ideas would be nice. Put 20 floors below ground with 40 above. You can make a 60 floor hybrid scraper thats structurally supported by natural ground & reduce the height of many buildings.

[@mactek6033]

Digging that would be very costly. It would also be hotter the deeper you go. When you hit the water table, the problem of leaking would be an issue.

[@zachfox7771]

mantle scraper

[@JURGEART]

Step one: Build a skyscraper on top of a earthscraper. Step two: Profit

[@kazzyanddecchan733]

A groundscaper is a transposition of a skyscraper. An earthscraper is a negative skyscraper.

[@shashwatdev2371]

Underground building in Resident Evil was an epic one🔥.

[@Law19157]

London has those Iceberg homes I hear where they build 3 or 4 floors underground since they can't build up. The Construction seems to piss off the neighbors lol!

[@GeorgRusbeck]

Law19157 up to seven floors. Kensington started to limit it to two floors underground. btw. whats about the pyramid of the Louvre?

[@Law19157]

Wow...7 floors. I'm not sure what the pyramid of the Louvre is, a museum or something in Paris Idk looks pretty though.

[@Exodon2020]

The Louvre Pyramid is actually the Entrance to the Louvre Museum. You enter that 18th century French palace through this modern structure. Well, upon entering the Louvre you'll find out the old exterior is just a mere shell with a top-notch interior. About the London Iceberg Homes: many Billionaires started digging deeper and deeper underground - even going as far as building beyond the borders of their property underneath the road and in some cases even went as far as violating their neighbour's propery by literally building their own Cellar underneath it. Then they built all sorts of crazy stuff inside it: Multistory Pools, Garages, entire Doomsday Vaults, etc. It was just a matter of time until the city Administration had to step in.

[@wish]

In Vault 101, no one ever enters. And no one.. ever leaves.

[@user-sn6jv5dv9s]

Wouldn’t it be cold af inside tho

[@UnReal31337]

Isn't this also known as a Geo-front? Or is that something else entirely?

[@GrandMasterAbe]

Why can't humongous buildings like in Star Wars movies be built instead?

[@Vysair]

Yung Biz Insufficient resources and not yet possible with current rocket technology.

[@Vignesh-hl4bd]

We can upto 10 kilometers up to the sky.An inch taller it would collapse because of the gravitational limitations offered by earth. We could make it taller in Mars 😂😂😂😂

[@nigerianprincess3391]

Art Centric You are wrong. You could build higher but that just would't be economically feasible.

[@Vysair]

Art Centric I think he meant Death Star

[@Vysair]

Art Centric We could had built space elevator...that is if we had enough resource for it.

[@johnkapusta3237]

do you have any idea how hot its gonna be down there from all the sunlight hitting the glass floor?

[@TeddyKrimsony]

there's an underground mall in central Moscow and been there for ages

[@MrGoatflakes]

Guy's eyes are striking and hypnotic. 🍥^🍥

[@mistermood4164]

i think its an interesting concept and a great way to tackle housing and office shortages however, how will people get fresh air and sunlight living and working in such spaces?

[@2MeterLP]

I think "subterranean office space" is the most depressing phrase I have heard on this channel.

[@Wltrwllyngaeiou]

My university's civil engineering department was housed in a 7 floor building underground with a central hub for light. It was horrible to visit with terrible lighting.

[@brendanrogers8304]

Could you imagine getting to the bottom and remembering that your wallet is in the car.

[@johndododoe1411]

Same as getting to a skyscraper penthouse with wallet in the car.

[@ahiwdbwodnoeb.anongus]

Dancing! Walking! Rearranging furniture!

[@baxile]

The Shanghai Songjiang Shimao Hotel is kind of an earthscraper, if not entirely, built in an abandoned mine pit.

[@aperture3412]

Earthscrapers... like the dwarven place Bilbo goes to in The Hobbit? Does that count?

[@DamianLewd]

Have and or can you cover the underground city plans for Chicago

[@johndododoe1411]

Isn't there an Earthscraper shopping mall in Hong Kong already?

[@nf9563]

Imagine a skyscraper right next to an earthscraper! It would be like a double skyscraper

[@tankinator451]

I don't see these being very useful in many places on Earth right now, but I could definitely see humans building these on Mars in a few hundred years, especially if they go down far enough to reach the underground glaciers

[@marcelinojr.deperalta3735]

Great Idea, but what happens to the underground areas in the event of a flood, It may turn into an Atlantis Museum.

[@carlordena]

Flood waters are definitely its worst nightmare...

[@ZealFox]

Since there is damage done in mining sites, wouldnt be efficient to extract resources while doing the project? Not only are things faster for both parties; the one constructing and the company mining gets to gain resources from it. The surrounding area gets to be participated in regrowth to make it suitable for living fixing the mining problem of having patches of land totally deserted. Water caused by rainfall (also typhoons or similar stuff) can be converted to a dam like mechanism which supply water to the entire structure or be used in filter as another way of grabbing drinkable water. Sewage shouldnt be that much of a problem? Right? It would take a heck of fertile stuff to grow that much greens inside that structure, so why not make use of the waste? Id accept it but I guess its useless when we choose to have gleaming towers instead ( isnt that the same concept as the water from the bottom goin to the top )

[@R6-D2]

Flushes toilet going up ⬆

[@grassyclimer6853]

I want one!

[@mastertrams]

So what would a building be called if it was both comparable to a skyscraper in height, and an earthscraper in depth... Or, even more absurd, what if it was wide as a groundscraper, tall as a skyscraper, deep as an earthscraper, and had a sky-bridge connecting it to an oceanscraper?

[@dalevaughn9446]

DREAM!!!!!!.

[@BiroFerenc]

What if we build together earthscrapers with skyscrapers?

[@pepumarius2006]

Aren't fewer structural barriers for ground-scrappers than for skyscrappers?

[@aral8210]

Pentagon?

[@TheB1M]

We’re not allowed to talk about that 😉

[@dlwatib]

Well, yeah, they are farfetched. For good reasons. There's not a lot of appeal to living and/or working underground. Unpleasant. Sometimes people do it for protection from very specific dangers, but never on such a large scale, and usually only temporarily until the danger has passed. Digging holes in the ground is very expensive compared to building upward, especially once you get down to bedrock. There are horizontal tunnel-boring machines, but not for vertical tunnels of that magnitude.

[@dalevaughn9446]

Some of NYC has large vertical shaft's under buildings. With power staytion & metro line connection.

[@atharvaa18]

0.10 Which building?

[@MegaVivekrocks]

Rani ki Vav, Ahemdabad, India could be one ancient example of earth scraper

[@ShawnChang19]

Gonna build one in Minecraft now:)

[@EctoMorpheus]

If enough earthrapers are built, all the dug up ground will stack up so high around them that current skyscrapers will also become earthscrapers

[@amandusan4821]

There was an abandoned earthscaper in the air gear manga, then it became a space elevator.

[@Scudmaster11]

Build a sky scraper ontop of a earth scraper

[@us3rG]

And stretch it like groundscrapers

[@Scudmaster11]

@@us3rG then it's a giant CUBE

[@us3rG]

@Scudmaster11 is basically a huge wall, ground scrapper like the Dubai line

[@plxton]

You missed the towers in the film: The Island

[@aussiebloke4601]

Just go to Coober Pedy in Australia. The whole town is underground.

[@itsharris2345]

I wouldn’t live in one. These are depressing tbh

[@jonathanseiersen513]

START BUILDING!

[@mickeycomcyber6732]

we all need that sky view