Crushing your pinterest dreams | shiplap, vertical forests, skyscrapers & more
Ahh Pinterest. It has a way of pulling you in with visually inspiring images, similar to Instagram but it’s less about a particular person, and more about an object or an objective that you want to achieve. I’m going to be looking at popular pins in home improvement, architecture, and design and debunking them.
0:28 Shiplap.This was made popular on HGTV and is now used as a universal word for any wood paneling on a wall with reveals similar to how Kleenex is used for tissue paper but shiplap is actually a term for a very specific type of product. This was made popular on HGTV and is now used as a universal word for any wood paneling on a wall with reveals. Because of the hashtag shiplap popularity, pinterest is filled with posts about shiplap walls which are actually faux shiplap wall, they are just wood planks. True shiplap is a little bit expensive, so people buy a 4 foot by 8 foot sheet of mdf or plywood and cut it down into strips, or they buy 1x pine boards and nail them into their walls. But those strips of wood don’t have a rabbeted edges so they aren’t self- levelling, so people resort to using coins and tiles as spacers.
2:55 Building homes around trees. It supposedly brings you closer to nature. Integrating a tree literally into your design makes the man-made and the natural one. At least that’s the intention. The reality is very different. Trees need enough sunlight to grow, they need breathing room, the need insects for pollination, they need oxygen to survive, their roots spread both horizontally along the surface and vertically into the earth. If you build too close to the tree trunk and cover the roots with your foundation, the tree is going to die.
4:50 Vertical forests. It supposedly brings you closer to nature. Integrating a tree literally into your design makes the man-made and the natural one. At least that’s the intention. The reality is very different. Trees need enough sunlight to grow, they need breathing room, the need insects for pollination, they need oxygen to survive, their roots spread both horizontally along the surface and vertically into the earth. If you build too close to the tree trunk and cover the roots with your foundation, the tree is going to die. The wind load on higher levels of the skyscraper is another concern. The trees might have to be strapped down to prevent them from tipping over and falling to the ground. Roots are another issue. You can’t plant a tree in a tiny box and expect the roots to be happy.
6:20 Container homes
6:26 Reinventing windows. The architect Frank Gehry is known for designing extruded window boxes on many of his projects including the Strata Center on MIT’s campus, Sydney’s University of Technology, the Vontz Center at the University of Cincinnati where I went to school, and the Dancing House in Prague. Water is the main enemy of a building. It wants to find a way in. Windows are typically inset and have a sloped sill to help water move away from the building. Trying to reinvent windows by pushing the glass to the outside of the frame is essentially an open invitation for water to get in. Water droplets that sit on this glass or on the protruding frame aren’t driven away. The top edge of the window which is exposed to rain is very vulnerable. There’s another unforeseen issue with designing windows this way.
8:08 Glass skyscrapers. Glass is undeniably one of the most versatile and important human inventions and has become synonymous with skyscraper facades. But, let’s look at the properties of the material and question whether it’s an appropriate cladding. There’s a term thrown around in the construction industry called R value. It’s a way to measure how well a material resists the flow of heat from one side to another. You can logically come to the conclusion that cladding a high rise in glass isn’t the best solution. The building is going to lose a lot of cold, air conditioned air in summer and is going to lose warm air in winter. The energy consumption of an all glass skyscraper is going to be much higher than a metal clad skyscraper, it isn’t as environmentally friendly as it is perceived.
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