The Insane Engineering of China's Moving Districts

Описание: When you want to build something new and exciting to expand your city’s infrastructure, sometimes even the perfect blueprint can be derailed by one simple obstacle: there’s something else already built there.

There is no telling how many amazing designs have never seen the light of day due to the sheer fact that, amid an increasingly crowded city landscape, there wasn’t anywhere to put it. In a perfect world, you could just magically pick up whatever buildings were in the way, move them somewhere else, and then magically put them back. But of course, engineers and architects must stay grounded in the real world.

All of this would have sounded like common sense until May 2025. That’s when a Chinese project to build a multi-level underground transit complex in Shanghai managed to overcome precisely this age-old obstacle and do the impossible. To the awe of the engineering world, and the disbelief of millions of viewers online, the team caused a 100-year-old 7,500 metric ton building complex to walk out of the way while remaining intact.

This sounds like nonsense - and looks like it almost has to be CGI - but it isn’t. It is, in fact, an engineering marvel - one that is all the more astounding when you uncover the futuristic techniques that made it possible.

In this video, we’re going to expose the secrets behind this viral magic trick of modern engineering. And you may want to pay careful attention, because although this is the first time the world has seen such a feat performed, it is now unlikely to be the last.

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00:00 Intro
01:41 The Obstacle
06:40 The Impossible Begins
10:49 The World Reacts
13:20 The New Future

Editing : Tahina RANDRIANANDRAINA

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