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Passenger railway in Kamakura, Japan. These rails are called Type 37kg (a finer and high quality type of rail), and come in lengths of 25m. A length of new rail costs about $920 and the complete line uses about 808 of them. The line is the famous Enoden.
A lenght of straight rail lasts 30 years and a curved one 10 years. When they are exchanged they are left by the rail as in this photo, to be picked up once a year all at the same time. They are sold as scrap iron generating about $200/piece. Some're sold as tourist souvenirs.
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Clever. Students of an architecture school in Kyoto have made a scale model of a timber frame home to promote traditional Japanese earthquake resistant carpentry. They take it around local schools and let kids try assembling it by themselves in workshops.
They even provide a second model of a modern style timber frame construction, complete with metal plates and anchors. And of course, they stress test it: a simulated earthquake is easily done with a few eager volunteers doing their best to pull it down.
So if you have a small timber frame construction business anywhere in the world and want to do some long term marketing: build a model and take it around local schools. Or better yet, form a guild, pool resources to make a few models, and have a traveling exhibit.
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In the late 19th c., after a visit to Paris, three local Haitian architects figured out how to build sustainable, earthquake and hurricane resistant wood and masonry houses. Known today by the clunky name "Le style gingerbread". Here a house in Port-au-Prince, 2017.
The style itself is absolutely inconsequential to the disaster resistant construction, but local patrons fell for the charming looks, reminding them of North American stick frame houses and French seaside resorts. Even when completely stripped nude, they remain charming.
The basic construction is exceedingly simple: a basic timber frame reinforced with diagonal braces, and walls infilled with absolutely anything: stone, mud, brick, wood, whatever was at hand when the house was built, it was all going to be covered in plaster anyway.
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Léon Krier's 1978 proposal for an integrated walkable urban quarter at Luxembourg's Kirchberg Plateau. Of course it did not happen and instead we got the typical modern campus "tower in the Park" Corbu inspired nonsense. No wonder the bureaucrats at the EU organs hates Europe.
I looked at the present project on Google Streetview, I could not see a single pedestrian. You may draw conclusions about what technocrats really believe in when it comes to things like sustainability and ecology. Perhaps there will be electric buses for the plebs.
While Europe has put a gun to its own head and ordered us to keep digging, other countries show a bit more realism. Here's Krier with his client Hector Leal at the Paseo Cayalá in Guatemala, a town that didn't even exist 15 years ago. Still a bit too fresh, it'll mellow with age.
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