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vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 17 hours agoHey if you need a lot of housing real quick utilitarian designs like this tend to come about, doesn’t really matter who is doing it. Hell the Romans had some prefab designs that had a passing resemblance to this.
AniZaeger@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Except that if the Romans actually built high-rises, the damned things would probably still be standing.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
High-rises? No. Multi story buildings some going up to six or seven floors? Yes. Plenty of them survived up until around the high medieval period but we’re starting to come down by the Renaissance, though there are some examples in Revenna Italy. It’s been about 1500 years since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and about 500 years since the Eastern Roman Empire, regardless of how well built that’s a long time for any tall structures, a good example is the Lighthouse of Alexandria which while a bit older was rendered ruined around the same period and subsequently scavenged from to construct something newer, much like it’s Roman counterparts.
AniZaeger@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And meanwhile, name structures of similar scale built with modern engineering would probably be gone long in a fraction of the time.