dall-e 3; prompt: Inside a parking garage where many of the slots have been converted into permanent dwellings, even alongside the vehicle ramps.
dall-e 3; prompt: Inside a parking garage where many of the slots have been converted into permanent dwellings, even alongside the vehicle ramps.
Looks like the 1967 Montreal Expo Habitat 67 apartments. From an engineering point it turns out that the more exterior walls you have the less efficient it becomes for your heating and cooling needs.
from https://textureofarchitecture.blogspot.com/2019/02/montreals-1967-expo-habitat-67-attempt.html
Critically important in Montreal where the temperature in the winter can get to -20C pretty regularly, and summers can often hit +35C.
You also expose more walls to wear and tear from the elements, and some of those surfaces (like the exposed bottom floor of an apartment 20m up in the air) will be hard to do maintenance on.
If only they could have predicted it somehow with some sort of specialized knowledge
On top of that, concrete is quite a poor insulator.