A Brutalist solution for brutal fires?

[Robert Urbanek]

Though criticized for being cold and crude, Brutalist architecture uses fire resistant materials such as reinforced concrete and steel. Should city planners encourage the use of Brutalist design in the reconstruction of homes burned in the California fires?
The film The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who struggles to achieve success as an architect, has brought renewed interest in Brutalist design.

 

[Crepitus]

Non flammable buildings would be good, and concrete doesn't have to be brutalist.

 

[1srelluc]

Make flak towers great again!

Brutalism: How unpopular buildings came back in fashion

Post-war concrete architecture was decried by many as ugly – but now Brutalist buildings are back in fashion, writes Jonathan Glancey.

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[Sparker]

Concrete requires aquatic sand, which is scarce enough to be a global black market resource.

 

[braalian]

The former Yugoslavia had some genuinely cool looking brutalist architecture

 

[Sparker]

Making a Brutalist structure of brittle concrete flexible enough for a very seismically active area will add cost to the structure. There are cheaper options.

 

[Muhammed]

Non flammable buildings would be good, and concrete doesn't have to be brutalist.

Very true. I'm a concrete contractor. I built myself a big ass two story garage with a basement out of concrete and steel. But the design just looks like an old fashioned wood barn. Fits right in the neighborhood.

It doesn't look brutalist or industrial and it is fire and disaster proof. It could easily withstand a direct hit by a tornado and that's about the worst mother nature can throw at me here in NW Ohio.

Hell, you could bash your snowplow into it and all you would do is minor cosmetic damage to the wall. She barely left a scratch.