What things did we do better in the past when it comes to building homes in terms of function and other buildings that have people in them? Have we forgotten any useful things from back then?
All i can think of myself is that the curtains that were around beds are now gone which is sad because they can save a bit of heating costs in the bedroom.
Build simple and boxy so it's easy to add on to. If you ever see large farm houses in New England with attached barns, most of those started out as small houses and they would just keep adding on as the family and space needs grew.
I think home additions have gotten a lot less common now as people seem to prefer just buying a bigger house. That is not the worst thing either since it puts the smaller homes back on the market for first time buyers, but if you don't want to leave your town or your land it's more difficult to expand some home designs, like mine where the basement is half submerged and neither floor is at ground level.
Main thing I noticed is how to air and heat/cool a house, we just rely too much on AC now. Simple things such as shutters, trees, awnings, etc need to be relearned. Plus vegetable gardens, but that's another board.
>curtains that were around beds
Electric blankets are basically the modern equivalent of that, where you ware heating your bed/body instead of the whole room.
>we just rely too much on AC now
>replace curtains with electric blankets which requires electricity
lol
To be fair, electric blankets are a lot more efficient than running the AC all night.
Solid homes with roofs that doesn't go off each time there is a tempest with winds > 120 km/h
go full ancestor and live in a cave.
You missed:
>socially stigmatizing divorce to encourage married couples to sort their shit out instead of just bailing
On topic: the quality of modern materials is atrocious compared to what was available traditionally. I’ve lived in archaic shitholes with beautiful hardwood floors. The modern equivalent: just use vinyl bro.
Yup. Material science has advanced but profits come in the way of good products.
>construction
>better in the past
Literally nothing
Just within my own lifetime, material quality and thermal aspects of construction changed twice, both times for the better. If you think anything pre-industrial was better, go to some other larping board
>t. 3rd year civil engineering student
>no load bearing walls too much reliance on rebar and concrete - where is those sovlful thicc walls and aesthetic batter
>material is not breathable the one cause for mass success of cement seems like it's faster set time - literally churning out buildings like fast food that rot from inside out because of trapped moisture