Surprising Happenings at the Hammock House in Japan!!

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00:00Hey guys, another video for our modern Japanese architecture playlist.

00:03Some of you might remember this building. It was four small two-story apartments

00:08and it was being demolished. It was about probably 20 or 25 years old

00:12and we thought they're going to renovate it because they stripped everything off

00:15and we thought they're going to renovate it and they just continued to pull it

00:18apart and just totally demolished it. You might remember it we called this the

00:22hammock video or something like that. Every time we drive past this place now

00:26we talk about the hammock house because we all remember the demolition staff

00:31lying around in their hammock. So the hammock house. So four two-story

00:39apartments about 25 years old so they demolished them.

00:43Usually what we see then is a hole digger like this that comes along and

00:48digs deep holes into the ground at about one or two meter intervals and

00:53they use that to make deep foundations. So that's what we

00:57expected to see next but we didn't. What we saw next was they

01:01just came along and put up the formwork and just laid out a big concrete slab

01:06without actually drilling any foundations at all.

01:08So we actually drive past this place at least a couple of times every day

01:12so there's not much that we miss every time we go past we can see what's going

01:16on. So there was no digging of holes for

01:18foundations so this must be some different kind of construction.

01:22It looks like a sort of a floating island type construction so the next

01:28step was this timber that all seemed to just sit

01:30on top of the concrete slab. So we do know that there are buildings even some

01:36very big buildings in Japan that they make earthquake resistant by

01:39letting them float so it might be one of those. So then of

01:43course they put up the compulsory scaffold and then brought the compulsory

01:47tall crane and the trucks brought in all the pieces

01:50like a big lego thing and they just clicked it all

01:53together like we've shown you before. And guess what they built? So they

01:58demolished four small two-story apartments and they

02:03built four small two-story apartments.

02:07Isn't it amazing? So that other building was well salvageable it was in pretty

02:12good condition it didn't look much different to this.

02:15It was only 20 or 25 years old but instead of renovating it they just

02:19demolished it threw it in the rubbish and built a new one.

02:23It's hard to hard to understand how they're gonna make money from that but

02:26anyway there was that. More videos coming soon!