Disaster that covers the earth: Reinforced concrete

Since the first day of its existence, human beings have met their most basic need for shelter in different places using different materials. The adventure of settling, which started with the caves, developed and changed constantly and took its current form with different materials and technologies. While the first buildings that entered the architectural literature were built with soil, with the concrete technology discovered in the 19th century, the majority of the buildings, regardless of their function, started to be produced with concrete. The technological material steel, which became easier and more affordable to produce with the Industrial Revolution, also played a leading role in forming the backbone of architectural structures. The soil structures that adorned the earth with their humble aesthetics for centuries left their places to concrete, which showed up with its cult, unhealthy and inadequate appearance. To build higher structures, concrete was mixed with steel alloy material, resulting in reinforced concrete, a building material that is relatively more durable than concrete. Mankind had discovered reinforced concrete as 'the invention of the century', a material that he could build more easily and get faster results. However, this was in reality the secular title of an army of destruction, the effect of which will be understood years later to cause great problems in health, life, psychology, sociology, and many other fields as well. The sustainable, habitable, viable, conservable, and sustainable life cycle that has been going on for centuries with the soil, which can be destroyed and rebuilt at any time, has left its place to an anti-ecological, destructive, and invasive type. Reinforced concrete, which is the new construction method, has turned into more of a technological weapon that targets not only human beings but also animals, plants, and the atmosphere when it is in the hands of heedless people with the only aim of gaining money. Unique and verdant lands surrendered to the invasion of reinforced concrete apartments. Green landscapes, decorated with wooden materials since the earliest times of history, were drowned in the tile red bricks and the gray darkness of concrete. The disproportionate construction works in cities led to the establishment of the hegemony of unplanned urbanization by disrupting the wind corridors, waterways, and topographic structures that formed the natural cycle of the city. The short-lived structures of reinforced concrete, which did not come with a healthy infrastructure, could not show enough resistance to time and earthquakes, leaving tons of waste behind. Thus, reinforced concrete left a mass, which does not disappear in nature and cannot be reused, as a legacy to humanity, and it is now tried to be reduced to more humanitarian dimensions with new regulations and limitations.