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How to make any building look better and feel nicer. Add plants. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (4 children)

How to damage the integrity of your structure

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's Japan. They'll just knock it down and start from scratch in 10 years anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Being Japan, the plants might stitch it together for an extra 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's Japan - those plants started growing in the late 1970s. It's probably the only thing holding the house together at this point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What if you didn’t have any integrity to start with?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I see you've met my ex. Hasn't everyone though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, you're not wrong. Earthquakes tend to dampen real-estate-as-investment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like they're using a combination of metal and bamboo scaffolding to help support everything. I had the same initial worry, but it might be fine. A reverse image search didn't immediately turn up the same building. If it's in Tokyo, I wanted to walk by and see for myself (though I don't think I'd take picture; that feels a bit creepy).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you say this because of the extra weight? Vines/roots damaging stuff? Just curious

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Climbing vines like that have a tendency to tear into cracks in whatever they're climbing, increasing water ingress. They also tear off the protective layering on brick/concrete walls.

Looks hella dope though🌳