Not to mention, the Brutalist architecture interior will look the same in 20 years, while any other kind would just look dilapidated and aged as shit. As long as someone is living in there, concrete don’t age, son. And even if it falls apart, just make some more concrete to fill it in.
But, even ignoring the structural issues. Concrete is especially bad at looking discoloured over time. It’s not that that doesn’t happen to stone. But, stone starts off with its own patterns and colours which hide any discolouration. Concrete starts as some even shade of grey, which makes any discolouration much more visible. So, rust stains are more obvious, growth of mold or mildew is more obvious, efflorescence is more obvious.
If people actually did paint the concrete, like in the picture, it would help a lot. It’s probably much easier to paint concrete than other things too. Because it’s a manufactured material that’s very even, it probably handles being painted a lot better than other kinds of stone, and especially than stone joined by mortar.
Roman concrete is unreinforced, meaning no rebar inside to rust. You can’t use modern construction techniques with unreinforced concrete. It can’t handle tension well.
Seriously, there’s a reason we don’t “build like the Romans”. We would be using 10x the concrete that we use now. We can’t even keep up with concrete demand now, I can’t even imagine how much worse the environment would already be if we needed 10x the concrete.
Not to mention, the Brutalist architecture interior will look the same in 20 years, while any other kind would just look dilapidated and aged as shit. As long as someone is living in there, concrete don’t age, son. And even if it falls apart, just make some more concrete to fill it in.
It seems to me that concrete definitely does age and it eventually leads to collapse.
But, even ignoring the structural issues. Concrete is especially bad at looking discoloured over time. It’s not that that doesn’t happen to stone. But, stone starts off with its own patterns and colours which hide any discolouration. Concrete starts as some even shade of grey, which makes any discolouration much more visible. So, rust stains are more obvious, growth of mold or mildew is more obvious, efflorescence is more obvious.
If people actually did paint the concrete, like in the picture, it would help a lot. It’s probably much easier to paint concrete than other things too. Because it’s a manufactured material that’s very even, it probably handles being painted a lot better than other kinds of stone, and especially than stone joined by mortar.
Maybe this is just my Northeast US prejudice, but brick is so much classier. Also concrete doesn’t age, but rebar sure does
Tell that to the romens, concrete ags fantastically if built for the purpose of lasting a long ass time.
Roman concrete is unreinforced, meaning no rebar inside to rust. You can’t use modern construction techniques with unreinforced concrete. It can’t handle tension well.
Seriously, there’s a reason we don’t “build like the Romans”. We would be using 10x the concrete that we use now. We can’t even keep up with concrete demand now, I can’t even imagine how much worse the environment would already be if we needed 10x the concrete.
Yes I’ve been to the Pantheon and those walls are thicc