You don’t have to be designing a Villa for a rich individual for those kind of things. Some of the stories I’ve heard in Dubai are ridiculous.
Fix, Developer asks landscape architects to draw a pool deck on the podium of a tower under construction. Landscape asks engineers about floor thickness and load numbers and are told that the podium, as completed, cannot carry a pool. Apartments have already been sold, with brochures showing pictures of a pool deck. Nobody told engineering that they had to spec for a pool let alone where on the podium.
Another story I’ve heard: core of residential tower has been completed to 20 out of 40 stories when developer gets a bright idea and approach an architectural firm to design a rooftop pool, as if that’s not something that required planning in terms of foundation, structure or where to put maintenance equipment.
Fix, Developer asks landscape architects to draw a pool deck on the podium of a tower under construction. Landscape asks engineers about floor thickness and load numbers and are told that the podium, as completed, cannot carry a pool. Apartments have already been sold, with brochures showing pictures of a pool deck. Nobody told engineering that they had to spec for a pool let alone where on the podium.
Another story I’ve heard: core of residential tower has been completed to 20 out of 40 stories when developer gets a bright idea and approach an architectural firm to design a rooftop pool, as if that’s not something that required planning in terms of foundation, structure or where to put maintenance equipment.