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Amazing info, thanks!

Bidenomics at work!!!

Wages are increasing because the laws and regulations on living life in urban environments requires a lot more money to live. Properties are built without garages, requires hiring a landscaper for the yard, vehicles are more expensive, utilities are more expensive.

It's the climate you want to worry about

Wow, thank you for being brutally honest and unapologetically vocal! I am an old architect getting close to retirement age. Yes, architects eat their young. It's sad to see this practice still being very much alive and well in the industry. Best wishes to you and your practice, Chris.

this is coming handy for my climbing gym architecture project

wow... this is so helpful, i don't even speak very well english but everything was so clearly. Pls continues doing it

thank you for the amazing lesson! it inspires me to work even more in the world of climbing!

Great video! Finding the sweet spot of the Hedgehog Concept!

I went to the knot! It was really cool! As i was passing through the town i didn’t download the app so i just climved the tunnel. Was a great time overall. Fun bouldering

Your videos are so helpful and enlightening. Thank you for your effort.

What is the debt serice ratio projections at full maturity that you are seeing recent projects at?

KI also has a relatively small part of the gym that is just for the National team most of the time. Not sure the back end of that but could be worth looking into as a model.

I've been following the story. Thanks for sharing, it's nice to hear a developers perspective on the situation.

you’re absolutely right and clear. Understanding cost and yield always helps inform the design.

I love this. Honest, truthful, and to the point. Great content. Cheers

Nice video, Chris! Achieving a competitive outcome that balances business and personal goals with budget absolutely requires the iterative design and planning process you've described here.

I think you missed the point Chris... It isn't the walls or their features, it is the setting style. My gym still has the same walls it had back in 2010, and it still lost its soul because the setting style changed (what the article alludes to). The walls are mostly empty, the holds are big and high-profile, look pretty but don't really allow for more than a couple climbs per section and aren't doing a great job at mimicking outdoor climbs, they mostly look like competition climbs. Overall there is a lot less creativity and uniqueness in climbs than there used to be 5 years ago. It's not the walls, it's the setting style and type of holds the gyms are going for.

as an architect whos been in the profession for 20 years, No. If there is anything else u can do or enjoy doing do that. The ffield of architecture is problematic in many ways and u dnt make a lot , u have a lot of liability, lomg hours, YEARS that go into “moving up” the corporate ladder, as a woman in the field that also comes with some issues, its expensive in school and after. If it was the way its sold to u in school it would be one thing but its not, its a lot of business, meetings, liability, contracts, coordination, a very small percentage of what you do on a day to day basis is design.

How can I find someone who can just help me do my floor plan ideas in a CAD program. I don't have plans to build yet so I just wanted to spend maybe $200. Thank you

This is solid.

An item that never gets covered about this Sphere -- The electrical cost to keep this thing running. It HAS to be insane for that power cost and that is a monthly insanity in perpetuity for this to operate. I do not care how efficient it is - That is a lotta lights.

I hope we can all appreciate how you discussed the 'game design' of climbing competitions while Chris Danielson wore a "TETRIS since 1984'" t-shirt. Did he do it on purpose? Tetris itself has seen countless variations (even other classics like Dr. Mario might be called a Tetris spinoff) while still maintaining the core game mechanics - which is precisely like climbing. I also wonder if Danielson considers himself a game designer, because he absolutely is!

Overall I believe that the obscured sightlines add to the experience by having private pockets of climbing, not seen by the entire gym. Experiencing Brooklyn Boulders for the first time I immediately noticed the clear sightlines. But- competitions feel like a bit of an oversight because of the lack of sightlines. If you have the chance, check out "MBP Boulderfest Live Stream 2022" to see what I am talking about. Spectating from the back of a crowd felt like I was fighting against the space. This facility totally inspired my obsession with climbing construction/manufacturing. I lived 5 min away from MBP, so listening to your take on the building is cool.

Chris,Bravo-amazing video-work! see you later! )

Great video, clear explanation !

Great video! though I think you talk more about intentions and parameters than story/storytelling. "needing to be cheap" can be part of the story but idk if that's what you want the final design to express. I take narrative design more as an aspect you want to make obvious in your building, a house telling the story of its owner's childhood, a memorial telling the story of a ritual, or a store telling the story of its ethos. nevertheless, final products should express intentions without words, which I definitely agree with.

this was helpful, thank you for these videos!

love your videos, would you be willing to make a video going over calculating costs and breakevens, using your previous projects as examples?

damn you really like to sound like mr smartypants. Said absolutelly nothing man

Question for you. As the global lending market has tightened up. Any suggestions on how to fund a building project/ indoor bouldering gym?

I climb here often, it's so cool to see the evolution of the design and the early sketches

Happy Birthday Phil!

Great insights from an architects perspective! Really enjoyed watching this. I was recently offered to put the olympic bouldering wall in my new gym. One of their selling points was that they would provide the 3D models from the comps and you could recreate those boulders in the gym. Intriguing, but very impractical. Besides from the effort of placing holds precisely you also need to own the exact holds and volumes. Anyways, when I looked at the wall (in several different colors schemes) I wasn't really into it but didn't know why. In hindsight I think it was those weird color breaks that just add confusion.

He was a really special guy, we dated in the summer of 2015, and I still miss him. Thank you <3

Im 20 years old, love climbing, but my closest gym is a half hour drive so i end up not going as much as i want to. I hope to reach out to you in the coming years once i save some starting capital to build my own gym, i dont know if i could make it happen without guidance and you seem so knowledgeable. Heres to hoping i can make it happen

I have been a licensed architect for 35 years and I run my own small design office. There are way to many architects. Most clients really don't need an architect, they just need a contractor and some drawings of an owner's design, proof of this is the built environment. Architects are needed to take the liability, and the state requires somebody to stamp the plans to take on that liability. Architecture school is a waste of time because you have to be retrained to work in an architects office after you graduate for school. Most schools concentrate on design and theory, 99.9% of all the students that graduate will NEVER design anything unless you open your own office. Almost 100 % of my architectural friends say Architectural school was a waste of time but it was fun.

Your views of schools and making money as an architect are correct. If one eventually manages to open an architectural office, you may submit many plans and estimates to potential customers, but get hired for few projects. Some students may think they will be the next Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe, but even they had money problems. Becoming a project manager and working with the contractors is one option.

I was part of EASMUS exchange program from one year in Univerisity of Liecthenstein (Principality in Europe). The fees are low, the quality of teaching is has good as any Swiss high renowned University (ex: Zurich or Mendrisio), and you have a good life in the Alps for the ones who like to like closer to Nature with a small intimate group of students.

NO.

Great thoughts Chris...and you have a terrific manner of explaining this to everyone!

Work 100%

Nice video. I hope to be able to reach out to you in the next 5 years.

Some observations, from surviving climbing for 55 years - before real gyms, we scrounged, "buildered" outdoors and in, around churches, campuses, stairwells, largely under the radar because it was certainly illegal. When gyms appeared, they were labors of love - dark, small, cloistered weird sanctuaries where holds and routes were primitive. As competition and popularity grew, facilities became more elaborate, extensive, and for most of us, more than adequate to satisfy our cravings. Oddly, the boom contributed to the explosion in sheer numbers of "climbers" with less and less actual outdoor familiarity. When your "Church" is the actual outdoor cathedral, it's no surprise that the artificial indoor chapels inspire little spiritual awareness. The complex answers to "Why do you climb" shifted from using movement on climbs as a physically transformative process to intensify one's sensitivity to the world, to prosaic replies like "to send the gnar, bro, to get worked, to get dates, etc." The Bar ambience crept into the meditative scene, and the only way to get back some of the old vibe, is to check your ego, arrogance, self-absorption, petty motivations at the door; make new friends outside your "profile," redpoint grade, gender comfort zone, and maybe dare to head out to some seriously nice, but nowhere near competitive crag. Taste the "brave smell of stone," relax, have fun.

Love you Chris! I actually wanted you to keep going on the history lesson of architectural visionaries of the late 18th century! I was sad it was so short.

Are there any resources you would recommend to self teach as an enthusiasts?

Great Video! Exciting to see deeper and analogous ideas in our industry.

I’m an aspiring gym owner but have no idea where to start. I have been binging your channel soaking up as much information as I can so I can make informed decisions down the road. Thanks for the content!

That hand washing station is genius

It's interesting that you work from home, how does that work when you are in the build phase of a climbing gym? Do you occasionally fly out to visit site?