Living in the city has become more and more difficult as the prices of goods continue rising as well as the number of citizens. Hectares of land that should contain houses now have buildings of international conglomerates. With these struggles, most people rely on dormitories, apartments, and condominium units for shelter, making permanent residence challenging to obtain. You understand this problem, but you still insist on creating your house in a busy and extremely populated area. Fortunately, you have found land for you to build a house on, between two tall buildings. So how do you start building? Listed here are some great tips that can help you answer this question.
Party walls
If you plan to occupy the whole of the land, you will need to have your walls attached to one side of each building. In this way, you are creating party walls. Since your home and the buildings are sharing walls, the noise from the buildings can get absorbed by your house, making your home noisy too. You can have your walls customised and soundproofed. Before making huge decisions regarding the properties of your walls, you will need a party wall surveyor. Luckily, most of these surveyors are contactable online, but to avail of their services, you will need to pay party wall surveyor fees. No worries though, as their services already include talking to the other property owners and checking your ground’s safety.
Earthquake-proof foundation
Being between two buildings can make your home prone to more extensive damage during earthquakes, so you will need to make your home sturdy enough to sustain the impact of the debris of the nearby buildings. Some houses attach a spring system under their structure, so when the earthquake happens, the house will move and not resist the earthquake’s force, lessening the damage. You can make your house out of metal too when supporting the foundation of your anti-earthquake system. Additionally, you can also put a panic room inside your home so you can immediately find shelter when a calamity happens.
Garage
When you’re neighbouring two giant infrastructures, parking your car on the street can be complicated. Most workers in the buildings have cars, so they will park just outside of the office, leaving your vehicle no room for parking. You can address this problem by actually creating a pathway for your car and a roof under which your car can stay out of the rain. In doing this, you will need to talk to the authority that maintains the orderliness of the pavement, especially if the street is public property. You might need to make arrangements with the land office.
Whether people are living in rural areas or cities, they still find a way to survive. Land that is left barren between two skyscrapers can become a residential area for people, especially when renting apartments has become more expensive.
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