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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
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Building a House or Building That Lasts for a Thousand Years?
A lot of the construction in Japan is that they just keep tearing stuff down every 30 to 40 years and rebuilding it. I'm curious, how would you build a house or building that only lasts for 30 or 40 years if you know they're going to tear it down soon? What changes about the construction process? Yeah, that's interesting. A lot of their interior walls are basically just paper and stuff like that. The US in like the early 1800s used a pretty similar method. And then once we started mass producing dimensional lumber, we kind of thought doing that because there's much cheaper to build out of two by four than big heavy posts and we eat mortise antenna connections.
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