The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well
The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well
Poly Canyon, at Cal Poly, is an experimental architecture laboratory. And it’s open to the public: http://www.caed.calpoly.edu/content/facilities/poly-canyon
Thanks to Jacob DeBoard for the suggestion
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I really want to hear about each of the structures, who made them and what they envisioned for the structures!
I did a design build challange there it was fun as hell
I love how soft spoken and passionate Kevin is about this project, can definitely tell he’s a good professor
I actually disagree with maintaining the structures. I think one of the most interesting parts of architecture is how time, nature and humanity interact and change it.
Oh, how I hope that ppl with paint will show up there, next!
Thanks, Tom!
Brilliant ! I’d love to visit that ! And definitely agree … it’s an art gallery !
Admit it you are a cia agent
What an amazing festival venue this would be!
I started at Cal Poly as an architecture major in 1983. A lot of these structures were there then. A roommate of mine was an engineer on a team that put one up in the late ’80s, but I think it fell down. I changed my major a couple times, finally graduating in ecology & systematic biology. Poly Canyon and the land around it was a resource for a lot of majors, not just the school of architecture. I spent a lot of time out that way for my botany, ornithology, herpetology, and entomology labs. There was also livestock roaming the area for the ag students. I did a lot of great mountain bike riding and trail running back there. And some drinking, too, since there was no alcohol allowed in the dorms.
What an amazing place! It reminds me of Inhotim (which would be a great place for a Tom Scott video if you ever came to Brazil!). I sure hope people enjoy this amazing art instalation area and keep it nice for everyone else. I also find amazing how Tom always manage to find the most cool, kind, fun people to hang out with. I want mr. Dong to be my teacher!
What a waste of space, Indian govt would never allow this. If this was India, there would be around a million people(atleast) crawling around in that space.
I would go mental if I had to listen to that guy for more than five minutes.
Faraday Picnic Escapes.
Me, a civil engineer: wow, no way, architects designed and built weird and impractical structures. Who could have foreseen this? 🤣
I really hope volunteers would show up and help cleaning up the grafitti. I’ve got nothing against the art form, but if it ruins another art form then maybe consider spray-painting something else.
workshops. The school teaches responsible, sustainable, creative building, so there are buildings with living roofs, tree houses, and a really funky outhouse.
Oh wow, I attended Cal Poly, years ago, and I remember visiting this place! It had fewer structured back then, heh.
THATS MY SCHOOL. Haha so weird to see him somewhere I have been high so many times
That is an idea for the next video assignment idea. Find the best solvent, green and efficient that can remove the graffiti there. You could test it on different types of materials or test a multitude of solvents on different materials.
Didnt think someone could look like theyre 80, but really in their 30s at the same time. 😆
They build a thunder dome
I love the image of anthropologists from the far future trying to decipher what the feck these buildings were for
"curator" is a nice way to say groundskeeper that lives on a four by eight metal square with no walls.
He seemed so proud of that "two bedroom with living area" that was just a grid of I beams.
That cali accent is 😖
tom scott i have had a crush on you since i was a sophomore in high school. you are awesome cool guy
Got whiplash when i saw the thumbnail and title. Just graduated from there not too long ago. Honestly, i was always told that the structures there are the last remaining ones from back in like the 70’s before they stopped making them permanent (they still have a project where students build temp structures to live in for a few days called Design Village). I didn’t realize new ones could still be built.
Best memory of the graveyard was actually getting to play in a concert through the Design Village event under the dome. Had sound and lights setup, was hella fun.
Baa baa
There’s a spring at the top of the hill. The water is delicious.
Nottingham University has a similar area although the houses are still kept up to date and I believe lived in.
Loving how soft spoken they are 👁️👄👁️
Some of them are really interesting
Design students should be jailed. What hubris
architects should be required to build the things they design for other people so they can understand how trash most of their designs are
It feels like a monk decided to go into academia. Very calming presence from the professor.
Damn Tom why’d you have to visit during winter break?
Architects have all this lovely training and then build big hideous boxes of vanity.
Public spaces should be graffitied, if your idea of public space is being white washed and kept pristine, well that’s not a public space that’s one persons state of permanence.
I bet one of the people reading this right now is going to drive there with water, soap and a sponge to clean off the graffiti
Could it be you?
Hey I live there!
Don’t show this video to Real Civil Engineer. Architects are a plague to society.
I have lived 35 miles from there for most of my life and had never heard of that aspect of Cal Poly.
I think you have a squirrel in your t-shirt…
Hate the graffiti but at the same time it helps make the place a little more interesting. Definitely get graveyard feels
You can feel a hint of resentment Tom has against certain YouTube community members.
Welcome to California, Tom!!!! 😀
The "hanging in midair" work is a tensegrity structure: the word’s clear in the subtitles, but if you’re just listening you might not catch it. Steve Mould has a great video on how those structures work!
Summoning RCE’s fellow engineers to throw shade at all these architects and their lack of strongest shape use.
It’s not a graveyard , it’s an arch gallery.
(0:44) "MK Ultra" 🤣
Wow! That’s so wild to see my school on a Tom Scott video!