It doesn’t make anything quieter, hello echo. I live on a street with arcades like this and I wish cars could not park there. Sometimes you can almost feel the doors slamming shut.
These were built by ancient romans, not swiss people.
What ? They were not designed to do any of that, it was just fancy for the time.
It was normal to build cities for comfort and protection of citizens as long where not invited garage and square meter of property don’t have unchristian value.
Funny part is that usually what you see as ground floor is 1st or 2nd floor,.. Earlier people put ash on road (yeah also other stuff..) and with time was door deeper than road.. and with rain came and flooded ground floor.. so doors was replaced by wall, ground floor became cellar – and 1st floor..
There’s a lot in some italians cities..
I always thought this was to have simultaneously more housing space and wider roads.
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Too narrow for beggars?
Is this Bern?
hailsturm on the highway?
I wonder if modern building codes don’t allow this type of construction. Don’t see this style in newer developments. Maybe a fire safety issue?
That’s not special to Switzerland though. Sorry.
Lol.. this guy picked 2-3 hundred year old architecture to speak about beggars n’ shit.. What a trip mate 😅
Architect: nice that looks cool lets built it
Someone of reddit: *this post*
Porticos are definitely not a swiss ingenious urban planning.
Bologna – Italy has the longest porticos ensemble all over the world, with more than 50 km, and it is part of UNESCO heritage since 2021.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porticoes_of_Bologna
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1650/
It doesn’t make anything quieter, hello echo. I live on a street with arcades like this and I wish cars could not park there. Sometimes you can almost feel the doors slamming shut.
These were built by ancient romans, not swiss people.
What ? They were not designed to do any of that, it was just fancy for the time.
It was normal to build cities for comfort and protection of citizens as long where not invited garage and square meter of property don’t have unchristian value.
Funny part is that usually what you see as ground floor is 1st or 2nd floor,.. Earlier people put ash on road (yeah also other stuff..) and with time was door deeper than road.. and with rain came and flooded ground floor.. so doors was replaced by wall, ground floor became cellar – and 1st floor..
There’s a lot in some italians cities..
I always thought this was to have simultaneously more housing space and wider roads.
Hey someone from Wil SG