https://www.boredpanda.com/problematic-design-solutions-typicalrykozhop/
30 Construction Solutions That Don’t Solve Problems, Only Create Them, As Shared By This Instagram Account (New Pics)
Jonas Grinevičius and Mindaugas Balčiauskas
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Many of us instinctively know whether a design is good and user-friendly or if it’s something clobbered together at the last minute without much thought for aesthetics, the future, or our poor artistic feelings. However, some home design ‘solutions’ are so problematic, they deserve to be named and shamed far and wide.
That’s where the Russian ‘Typical Rykozhop’ project on Instagram comes in. The account documents the most egregious design and construction decisions that would make any design major’s jaw drop (watch some of them faint, too!). Scroll down for the best of the truly worst (or is that the worst of the worst?) and upvote the design solutions that you simply love to hate, dear Pandas.
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It’s definitely pretty funny to this fat old white guy injineer. In a few cases, it is hard to figure out what they were trying to accomplish. And, in one, I was befuddled.
Reminds me when I was working on a new building for a Wall Street datacenter. Some SVP gave the “baby” electrician aka union apprentice for some trivial thing. I think the fellow parked in the guy’s “space”; there were no markings or assignments I was aware of. When the Unions heard about this, they had had enough of the this guy and that was the straw that broke their back. It wasn’t the first time he’d <past tense synonym for urine output> them off. So they took advantage of a blanket order to work any overtime needed to get the building done ahead of schedule, and that Saturday EVERY TRADE came in to work putting up doors. They put EVERY DOOR in a nine story building in one day just as it was drawn on the plans by the architect and signed off by everyone in the chain of command. That Sunday morning, when I came it and did my daily walk thru for site security with my supervisory team, I immediately recognized what had been done. I got the dubious pleasure of calling my SVP telling him that “I thought” (I knew) EVERY DOOR was installed backward (i.e., the holes were on the hinge side). Since these were ALL special fire doors, they have to be ordered and remade from scratch. The union’s chief steward suggested that they might want to ask a certain SVP about who could park where and ALL the trades called in sick on Monday. One of the few times I ever saw the CEO, CFO, and a bunch of other Chiefs was that Monday morning at 7AM walking through the building. By lunch time, that SVP was fired and, on Tuesday, the doors began to come down very very slowly. The building was delayed two months. And, we were all verbally informed don’t mess with the unions.
Laugh!
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