It is crazier when you are sitting in just a type of house he is explaining the construction process of! I 3d modeled my flat once and many parts he mentioned were noticeable.
The fact you had to actually model a section of the prefabs in a modeling software just so that you could perfectly show what you were talking about in the script makes me think this episode is one you've been extremely excited for.
My uncle lived in a prefab building from 1970s. When he was replacing windows, the workers discovered an entire section of a wall made of vodka bottles. The builders sold an entire prefab section and used some leftover cement to replace it with bottles. edit: also there are no 90° angles in that building. EVERY wall is somewhat slanting
I grew up in a prefab building, and i still have many nearby. Itˋs just great to get remembered to this time, by watching your high detailed Video and listening to the explaining. The whole neighbourhood was build planed, thatˋs Shops are good to reach and central. Thank you for this high quality of your mix of explaining and build an expirince. :)
I grew up in a prefab high rise in the 70s in the UK. Around the time that we were seeing reports on the news of poor quality high blocks collapsing in london...a tad scary
I live in a prefabricated apartment block in Fyllingsdalen, Norway, built in 1971. It's really interesting to hear you talk about how they were built, and I recognize some of the problems you mention. Small gaps have appeared in the joints between the modules, and I can sometimes feel a breeze if it's really windy outside. Fortunately, my top floor apartment has a gable roof, so there are no problems with leakage. Otherwise, the building feels really solid and everything is still straight here.
You can remove the Cities: Skylines part of the title, and it becomes a perfectly good history lesson of Prefab buildings! Really interesting to learn more about how these buildings were built
I really like this format of focusing on a specific part of the city's construction while teaching us about its history in the process. Keep it up and welcome back!
Never have I thought I'd watch a lecture on prefab buildings and enjoy it! Good to have you back Akruas, I've been missing Altengrad and I'll be happy to see more of it in the 2 weeks' time.
Awesome video, my grandpa was a construction manager in the 80s, and he "built" some prefab blocks in my town, my school is near the old prefabs factory that was supplying building sites in my area
The panels were indeed used for industrial premises, but residential buildings were built from ready-made rooms. In my city you can find abandoned boxes, there are only two walls and a floor.
The apartment consists of a bedroom or two 1-2 boxes, toilet and bathroom has a partition but it is one design, the kitchen has three walls. Only five-story houses were built from panels, everything else was made from boxes. If you need I can help you find more information about it😊
Would be really cool to see some of these prefab buildings in the center of the city. Maybe modified a little to remind of the old houses with for example the roofs and built on a much smaller scale. I’ve seen this in many places both in Lithuania and Poland.
I love how those perfab walls are so... "unique". No 90 degrees angles, bulges, room's width may vary, and not to mention that the original windows were are threat every time we had stronger wind or rain.
As a prefab buildings enthusiast this blew my mind. You explained it so beatifully like an engineer and showed it in C:S. You should have more recognition! This is incredible!!!!!! EDIT: i live in one in Poland
Hey Akruas, I recently went on a trip to Prague and Slovakia, and seeing the cities was really cool because I noticed what you took inspiration from. Great build!
Je až neuveriteľné co dokážeš, sem tam ťa sledujem a to čo robíš je neskutočné... Detaily ktoré vytvaraš, vsuvky ktorými vysvetľujes čo robíš a ako to "fungovalo" a to nemyslim len v tomto videu. Držím ti palce, si veľmi šikovný v tom čo robíš a tvoja angličtina? Wau. Všetko dobre bratu. 😉👍
One of our teacher told us a weird story once. When she was a young adult and freshly married she moved into a flat in a prefab in East Germany. Her best friend already lived on the same building in the flat under hers. When she visited they noticed that her friends kitchen was smaller by quite a bit for whatever reason, even though they should have the exact same flat layout. Well, turns out the construction workers built an extra small room in which a concrete mixer was left for whatever reason.
Thanks a lot for your efforts to explain the pref panel construction process at te building side. I admire your video stick to the whole theme - very detailled and easy to follow. Educational content, once love to watch!
There definitely were many problems with those prefabs but all of them can be extremely easily fixed. Prefab housing is something we should look into more, improve it and use it again.
Thank you so much for explaining the procedure of prefab construction, as well as highlighting that they are by no means easy or unscrewable. For anyone that wants to know more about what happens when pretty much every institution involved in building these prefabs messes up, I'd like to redirect you to this documentary: ua-cam.com/video/Ch5VorymiL4/v-deo.html
As usual, great video! But you forgot one thing in these apartments. Bathrooms 😀. They looked a little odd, big living rooms and corridors, but no bathrooms
This looks incredible. Super interesing stuff, I've always been interested in prefab buildings in eastern europe and beyond, something about them I'm not sure what exactly. I look at brutalist like architecture in the eastern bloc with disgust yet also intrigue. As a CS player since release, I feel like I have found a series I am going to be watching from the start in place of looking for shows to watch on Netflix for the foreseeable future haha.
Great looking build. Maybe another video idea would be a refurbishment of the prefabs way in the future 2010s when investment is picking up and trying to make them nice
I live close to one of those areas and few things i noticed you are not including in your build. Most of the blocks/projects have like a square with services and grocery stores in the middle or next to a bigger road. Also all the smaller roads inside the block are full of parking spaces on the side.
Yaay, happy to see Altengrad again, almost went to old videos just becaused i missed it soo much. And actually i really hate commie blocks and sídliště as a whole, but are making it so interesting, im afraid that i will start to like them :Dd Great video :))
I've been visiting a friend in Frankfurter allee in Berlin and I was thinking about you. Are the buildings that can be found close to Frankfurter Tur in Berlin prefabs ?
actually you shouldn't build high prefabricated houses because in that time they were only building khrushchevka (max 5 floors) The high buildnigs was an updated high rise version, the brezhnevka, was built in the 1970s and 1980s , so thats a little mistake
Great video again! Great job. where do i find out what you use for the PO's stuff. i cant make out things at time what are you using. like the rail what did you use? i get lots of ideas but wish i knew what you used. thanks.
Prefabricated housing estates in Poland are better designed than contemporary housing estates built by private developers. There are all basic services, no need to drive anywhere. Almost everything within walking distance.
I wish PO would add better placement tools for large objects that you copy pasted. Lets say you just made an entire building out of 150 individual PO's, then you copy and paste it but you dont get the same tools as when you want to operate a single PO piece. It can be quite frustrating.
Super no, zítra musím jít hledat spešl paneláky po Olomouci jelikož Akruas řekl to jsou experimentální a mají cool architektonické prvky či co. Nevíte někdo kde jsou?
Don't worry, Australian apartment builders don't care about quality constructions either. They build them and then by the time they have to be evacuated 10 years later for critical structural issues, the developing company has mysteriously disappeared!
The amount of detail in this build is insane
It is crazier when you are sitting in just a type of house he is explaining the construction process of!
I 3d modeled my flat once and many parts he mentioned were noticeable.
The fact you had to actually model a section of the prefabs in a modeling software just so that you could perfectly show what you were talking about in the script makes me think this episode is one you've been extremely excited for.
Congratulations on making it into the top cityskylines builds of 2022!
My uncle lived in a prefab building from 1970s. When he was replacing windows, the workers discovered an entire section of a wall made of vodka bottles. The builders sold an entire prefab section and used some leftover cement to replace it with bottles.
edit: also there are no 90° angles in that building. EVERY wall is somewhat slanting
That quantity of vodka bottles probably has some correlation with the square issues.
This series is incredible! The amount of details, the storytelling, the city really feels organic and real. Bravo, my man.
24:11 looks just like real life. insane
So happy to see altengrad again, especially now that it's half of the release schedule
I grew up in a prefab building, and i still have many nearby. Itˋs just great to get remembered to this time, by watching your high detailed Video and listening to the explaining. The whole neighbourhood was build planed, thatˋs Shops are good to reach and central. Thank you for this high quality of your mix of explaining and build an expirince. :)
Absolutely loving this "mini series" of Prefrabricates/Concretes
I was waiting from this video since your first one about prefabrication. Thanks. Hopefully you can do more about it.
i've really loved the historical/engineering context you've been providing in the altengrad series! can't wait for the next one.
I grew up in a prefab high rise in the 70s in the UK. Around the time that we were seeing reports on the news of poor quality high blocks collapsing in london...a tad scary
I live in a prefabricated apartment block in Fyllingsdalen, Norway, built in 1971. It's really interesting to hear you talk about how they were built, and I recognize some of the problems you mention. Small gaps have appeared in the joints between the modules, and I can sometimes feel a breeze if it's really windy outside. Fortunately, my top floor apartment has a gable roof, so there are no problems with leakage. Otherwise, the building feels really solid and everything is still straight here.
You can remove the Cities: Skylines part of the title, and it becomes a perfectly good history lesson of Prefab buildings! Really interesting to learn more about how these buildings were built
I love the little external cuts to show the structural designs
I really like this format of focusing on a specific part of the city's construction while teaching us about its history in the process. Keep it up and welcome back!
Altengrad is becoming lecture in architecture
Never have I thought I'd watch a lecture on prefab buildings and enjoy it!
Good to have you back Akruas, I've been missing Altengrad and I'll be happy to see more of it in the 2 weeks' time.
This one hits home. My grandparents live in exactly that kind of a 5 story prefab
Awesome video, my grandpa was a construction manager in the 80s, and he "built" some prefab blocks in my town, my school is near the old prefabs factory that was supplying building sites in my area
The panels were indeed used for industrial premises, but residential buildings were built from ready-made rooms. In my city you can find abandoned boxes, there are only two walls and a floor.
The apartment consists of a bedroom or two 1-2 boxes, toilet and bathroom has a partition but it is one design, the kitchen has three walls. Only five-story houses were built from panels, everything else was made from boxes. If you need I can help you find more information about it😊
Would be really cool to see some of these prefab buildings in the center of the city. Maybe modified a little to remind of the old houses with for example the roofs and built on a much smaller scale. I’ve seen this in many places both in Lithuania and Poland.
Yes that is planned.
Since it's confirmed, I'm quite excited to see something like this, even though it'll definitely be.. controversial for the city.
I love how those perfab walls are so... "unique". No 90 degrees angles, bulges, room's width may vary, and not to mention that the original windows were are threat every time we had stronger wind or rain.
Born in the former GDR and grew up in prefab blocks. You did a great job 🙏🏻👍🏻
17:58 nachází se i v Přerově na Jasinkově, sídliště Šířava.
a v Lipníku nad Bečvou jsou 4 jednovchodový
As a prefab buildings enthusiast this blew my mind. You explained it so beatifully like an engineer and showed it in C:S. You should have more recognition! This is incredible!!!!!!
EDIT: i live in one in Poland
the tons of detail you put, it's impressive! thank you for your work!
Hey Akruas, I recently went on a trip to Prague and Slovakia, and seeing the cities was really cool because I noticed what you took inspiration from. Great build!
Really nice! I hope some of those dirt piles stick around and become small neighbourhood hills
The garages really reminded me "Svarta jump". If you made some reference, it would be amazing!
Je až neuveriteľné co dokážeš, sem tam ťa sledujem a to čo robíš je neskutočné... Detaily ktoré vytvaraš, vsuvky ktorými vysvetľujes čo robíš a ako to "fungovalo" a to nemyslim len v tomto videu. Držím ti palce, si veľmi šikovný v tom čo robíš a tvoja angličtina? Wau. Všetko dobre bratu. 😉👍
One of our teacher told us a weird story once. When she was a young adult and freshly married she moved into a flat in a prefab in East Germany. Her best friend already lived on the same building in the flat under hers. When she visited they noticed that her friends kitchen was smaller by quite a bit for whatever reason, even though they should have the exact same flat layout. Well, turns out the construction workers built an extra small room in which a concrete mixer was left for whatever reason.
Thanks a lot for your efforts to explain the pref panel construction process at te building side.
I admire your video stick to the whole theme - very detailled and easy to follow. Educational content, once love to watch!
The prefab under construction looks absolutely insane
I love learning from these videos as I’m interested in cityplanning and architecture.
Best CS series on YT ever is finally back!!
That was probably a better explanation than I could give about precast panel buildings, and I am a structural engineer who designs them every day!
Well, this video is almost like a mini-documentary. Congrats!
Nice Build and Very Informative video as always Akruas. 👍
This is entertaining and informative
There definitely were many problems with those prefabs but all of them can be extremely easily fixed. Prefab housing is something we should look into more, improve it and use it again.
This is so interesting and instructive, thanks a lot for all your work
So so so excited for the new uploads! I love both of your cities! Super looking forward to continued uploads in the near future!
Great Video
"If room has at least one corner in right angle, it is good enough"
Great looking!
Thanks for your great achitetural history lessons.
Commenting for algorithm, love the channel!
You are a legend
Thank you so much for explaining the procedure of prefab construction, as well as highlighting that they are by no means easy or unscrewable.
For anyone that wants to know more about what happens when pretty much every institution involved in building these prefabs messes up, I'd like to redirect you to this documentary:
ua-cam.com/video/Ch5VorymiL4/v-deo.html
They're actually elaborate & kind of high-end :D
Ah the infamous garages, was waiting for them.
superbly done my Master ! :)
As usual, great video! But you forgot one thing in these apartments. Bathrooms 😀. They looked a little odd, big living rooms and corridors, but no bathrooms
You should look closer at some Bloks in New Belgrade and maybe build something similar. Like Blok 23 or Bezanija bloks from 61 to 64.
Amazing ! Learned a lot!
yay!!! I was waiting for a new one sooo much
A very nice Build👍.
This looks incredible.
Super interesing stuff, I've always been interested in prefab buildings in eastern europe and beyond, something about them I'm not sure what exactly.
I look at brutalist like architecture in the eastern bloc with disgust yet also intrigue.
As a CS player since release, I feel like I have found a series I am going to be watching from the start in place of looking for shows to watch on Netflix for the foreseeable future haha.
Great looking build. Maybe another video idea would be a refurbishment of the prefabs way in the future 2010s when investment is picking up and trying to make them nice
Brilliant
learn more from your vids than i do from uni!
yeay, it's back!
I live close to one of those areas and few things i noticed you are not including in your build. Most of the blocks/projects have like a square with services and grocery stores in the middle or next to a bigger road. Also all the smaller roads inside the block are full of parking spaces on the side.
The place is under construction, not everything is done. Parking spaces were added later in real life as number of cars increased.
one suggestion that you can do find some construction workers props so the construction site to look more alive
2:54 Přerov - Předmostí
~80. léta
Great video!
Amazing how much this looks like places in England
Next thing we know is how he is furnishing those rooms and making citizens in character creation😂
the construction site is awesome
How in a hell the simple city building game become more accurate than real life architecture and construction works
Will you make a Petržalka inspired neighborhood? Also,an area like this built on hills would be really cool,like Dlhé diely in Bratislava.
Super satisfying love the build, what’s the next project?
I think that in your past panel areas there are not enough playgrounds in the yards
Thank you for this video, i was waiting for it for so long. Also, could you please tell me which asset are the garages at 25:25 behind the building?
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Very interesting.
Yaay, happy to see Altengrad again, almost went to old videos just becaused i missed it soo much. And actually i really hate commie blocks and sídliště as a whole, but are making it so interesting, im afraid that i will start to like them :Dd Great video :))
that's why so many demolition happened on that kind of structure
I've been visiting a friend in Frankfurter allee in Berlin and I was thinking about you. Are the buildings that can be found close to Frankfurter Tur in Berlin prefabs ?
Probably not, more typical prefabricated houses are south of the Magdalenenstraße stop on Frankfurter allee
Good knock against Adam Something XD
actually you shouldn't build high prefabricated houses because in that time they were only building khrushchevka (max 5 floors)
The high buildnigs was an updated high rise version, the brezhnevka, was built in the 1970s and 1980s , so thats a little mistake
This is not the Soviet Union.
should have added soviet republic music in the background
Great video again! Great job. where do i find out what you use for the PO's stuff. i cant make out things at time what are you using. like the rail what did you use? i get lots of ideas but wish i knew what you used. thanks.
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@@Akruas thanks.
Prefabricated housing estates in Poland are better designed than contemporary housing estates built by private developers. There are all basic services, no need to drive anywhere. Almost everything within walking distance.
"To muselo dát strašný práce. A přitom taková blbost."
This guy is playing Sovet republic: workers and resources without Sovet republic: workers and resources
I live in panel house G57-OL in Olomouc, xD
Doing the thing
Altengrad for top city skylines builds in 2023,2024....
5:58 what app did you use there?
Blender
I wish PO would add better placement tools for large objects that you copy pasted. Lets say you just made an entire building out of 150 individual PO's, then you copy and paste it but you dont get the same tools as when you want to operate a single PO piece. It can be quite frustrating.
This is not a game anymore. This is complex city diorama tool. I just saw a guy building flat from concret blocks wtf.
What is your opinion on cities skylines 2 ? Are you gonna continue with this serie or make new serie?
We will see after we get some more solid info.
Super no, zítra musím jít hledat spešl paneláky po Olomouci jelikož Akruas řekl to jsou experimentální a mají cool architektonické prvky či co. Nevíte někdo kde jsou?
třída Kosmonautů, u nádraží
Králíkárny :-)
Hello Akruas! I suppose you know that this year CS2 will be published. What would you like to see in new game? Do you have any wishes for new CS?
I just wish it's good, but I'll wait for more info.
all the things for the algorythm....
fake worker might be good addition
It kind of creeps me out how many pieces of information on an obscure topic you are able to find.
Not obscure here, with millions of people living in these.
Don't worry, Australian apartment builders don't care about quality constructions either. They build them and then by the time they have to be evacuated 10 years later for critical structural issues, the developing company has mysteriously disappeared!