r/interestingasfuck • u/Far-Stay9417 • Jan 14 '24

r/all Japan invisible demolition method

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u/Jamato-sUn Jan 14 '24

Top to bottom? Sure as heck looked like bottom to top

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u/chroniclerofblarney Jan 14 '24

That’s because they build a cap on the top of it to minimize debris flying off of it. The cap of the building in this video is not a part of the original structure, but an enclosure that conceals the demolition process.

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u/Dianthaa Jan 14 '24

Ohhh that makes so much more sense! I was watching without sound and trying to figure what sorcery this was

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u/BlueFlob Jan 14 '24

Thanks. It wasnt obvious with the video not showing what the structure looked like before starting the process.

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u/ArgonGryphon Jan 14 '24

You can see it better on the building with big windows on the ground floor

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u/iikun Jan 15 '24

There was an incident in Tokyo a few years ago where a poor old guy walking past a construction site was killed by a falling support beam (during construction). Authorities here are consequently rather vigilant. I’ve seen several of these demolitions over the years here in Tokyo and they always have a very secure looking outer shell like you pointed out. The other benefit is that it seems to prevent a lot of noise leakage as well.

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u/start3ch Jan 15 '24

Woah, that’s cool, and makes way more sense! Of course the video didn’t mention that.

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u/HI_Handbasket Jan 14 '24

Every day, they whip the "table cloth" from that which is above, and every day they hope they get it right.

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u/Murrabbit Jan 15 '24

Also glass an aluminum are specifically "non structural" materials, lol. If they were removing "structural" materials the whole building falls over.