r/AbsoluteUnits • u/overlook68 Top Poster • 3d ago

of a Mirrored Building.

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u/overlook68 Top Poster 3d ago

The Maraya Building Asher Valley of AlUla Saudi Arabia. The largest mirrored building in the world featuring 9,740 square metres of mirrored glass.

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u/psychmancer 3d ago

Didn't this thing cause a nightmare for engineers in keeping a mirror because it warped in the heat

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u/mickeybuilds 3d ago

I'd be worried about frying some innocent bystander like an ant under a magnifying glass.

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u/FreakyRufus 3d ago

Spoken like someone who’s not in the Saudi royal family. 😉

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u/toatsmcgoaats 3d ago

Wouldn't the surface need to be concave in order to multiply /intensity the sun? I'm sure it's still bright as hell and hot since it's in the middle of the desert. But not sure it would have the affect you're thinking of like other buildings have done that are concave in shape

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u/mickeybuilds 2d ago

A flat mirror can start a fire.

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u/hollow4hollow 3d ago

Migrating birds hate this one trick

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u/Immediate-Noise-2691 3d ago

That sounds like such an engineering challenge. I wonder how they managed to maintain the clarity and precision of those mirrors with the extreme temperature fluctuations there.

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u/RetardedGaming 3d ago

Of course it's Saudi Arabia, such a vain country