Terrible Sloping Building In Santos City

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Sloping building
Santos - Leaning tower of the Pisa in Italy may be already no stranger to the traveler. Many who had come just to see this phenomenon. But Who knew along the shoreline Santos City, Brazil also has many buildings sloping. City located around 80 kilometers from Sao Paolo, Brazil has a strange thing. Such as dominoes, buildings that there is in there tilted to one side. Similar to the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy. Travelers can see for himself.
The problem lies in the structure of santos soil 7 meter composed of sand, then there is 30-40 feet below him there are the clay which actual can not hold the weight of the building structure. Until 1968, local building regulations do not have any limits on the type of foundation that can be used for multi-storey buildings.
Though ideally, a building foundation must have a foundation as deep as 50 meters, but the existing buildings on the waterfront Santos only has the foundation with a depth of 4 to 5 meters. As a result, the construction is completed first, completed is done new emerge the awareness for deepening in order that special foundations of high buildings.
Travelers who was sunbathing on the beach Santos could see direct this oddity, stay see only, row of buildings facing the beach. It seems clear, the buildings were tilted to the right or the left. Really horrified!
Many buildings are adjacent to each other, so that could cause problems. Is feared if one buildings that collapses will cause the collapse of on other buildings around it, similar to a domino effect. However experts deny the problem it can occur, because usually the building collapsed vertically.
Strangely though Santos residents knew if living in the building are sloping, they do not intend to move. As a result, they must experiencing discomfort such as goods are shifted and the difficulty of pouring coffee.
There, there are about 100 buildings tilted at a terrible corner with a slope between 0.5 meters and 1.8 meters. Actually there is an effort to straighten some of the buildings are sloping, however these thing is plagued by the high cost. There is only one building Malzoni Ambassador next to the Pinacoteca in Channel 4 at a cost of renovation as big as $ 1.5 million. Indeed it is a very large number.
The people who live there must not only be familiar with their the building are sloping, but also other problems ie declining property prices. Where condominium prices plummeted after several similar buildings clearly visible with the naked eye.

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