Use cases for brutalismpic.twitter.com/P26RDofEJV
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Moaning: brutalism isn't good Honing: brutalism isn't good... yet
The concrete protrusions or inset windows were designed to reflect some sunlight into the windows but block most direct glare from the sun. The diamond pattern seems to do the same thing and looks nicer but is probably more expensive...
But the bigger reason why it looks better is because there's *texture variation*. The thing is, when it gets dirty and it's seen from the street, it just looks like a big blob of rough dirty concrete, you can't see the texture difference anymore.
If I was designing a neo-brutalist building, I might go with some sort of concrete pagoda, with concrete pillars framing large glass sections.pic.twitter.com/JRtyqThRnM
Ha--! I'm still most drawn to the gold-tone foil. ^^
I wouldn't use that for a building, but what you *could* do is cover concrete with decorative colored glass tiles.
Glass is cheap these days - you could use it for a house roof if you wanted, but it would be heavy and 2-3x as expensive as asphalt shingles.
good points both--I mention the foil not because it would scale well to a real structure, but because it seemed anti-brutalist
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