Friday, October 30, 2015

[rjqpcoos] Walls getting thinner higher up

Build a tall residential building whose internal walls get thinner as you go up.  This is to decrease the weight of the building on the upper floors, ultimately hopefully making the building cheaper to build.  However, thinner walls means more sound travels between rooms.  What social mechanisms will develop to deal with this sound?  Alternatively, certain kinds of people will be more fine with living with sound from other units.  What kinds of people are they, and why are they so?

One of the most distinctive sounds traveling between units is the sound of people having sex, so the answers to the above questions will probably involve attitudes about sex.

(Is the weight of internal walls a significant contributor to weight?  I actually suspect it isn't: the weight is either in the frame or the floors/ceilings.  Soundproofing material inside a wall I suspect weighs very little.)

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