Actually occupancy is likely somewhere between 10-20k
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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That's bigger than my entire village π³
Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.
I'm not an expert Chinologist, and it's a huge country, so it might vary, but AFAIK tipping isn't really a thing in China.
Food is delivered by pneumatic tubes.
Enjoy your pizza all scrambled and your soda is gonna go through nuclear fission π₯
Oh yes, the LHC: Large Hotdog Collider.
Poor delivery guy π¦ π°π
Yeah thatβs a leave it in the lobby and lot god sort it out kind of delivery
These types of apartments interest me a lot, they become cities in one of themselves, a livable Kowloon
Malls, gyms, restaurants all in the apartment because of how high the density is
Reminds me of Arcologies in Sim City 2000.
Everybody wants Forest Arcos but they keep building Darco Arcos.
I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - itβs a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.
Most residential buildings Iβve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.
The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.
Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!
Hey you're thatKamGuy!
how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.
The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!
As for counting with multiple numbers, yβall love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.
North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.
Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.
Everyone eats pizza, Everyone is lactose intolerant, Everyone flushes
We've heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.
Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh
A bit defensive thereβ¦. Itβs quite literally a harmless meme
Also, how does this have anything to do with house brain? Most hotels and apartment buildings donβt even come close to the sizes of some of these massive ones in China.
I mean it's absolutely nuts how many people this building holds. I'm guessing that the majority of towns across the majority of the US land area have populations smaller than this one building. Probably likewise throughout most of Europe. The population density of this building is crazy. 115/km^2 (apparently the building is 260km^2)
Your math is wrong. 260km^2 would mean 10 miles long and 10 miles wide.
Unless you count floor space, but that's not how population density is measured.
And even then, 115/km^2 means every person would have 2 football fields of space.
If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains
Naw, that's escalators. Elevators are buses.
Perhaps more specifically, escalators are funicular?
Yes
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