Building a do to construct a small-scale ecosystem, then recreating life before the disaster, such a vision is undoubtedly alluring and fills people with hope.
However, achieving all this still requires effort and detailed planning and design.
Even according to Chen Xin’s vision, the technologies applied in this plan are either readily available or have existing case studies, but a professional design team is still needed to plan and design the entire sche.
This task naturally isn’t sothing an ordinary designer can handle, and even so smaller design institutes can’t undertake work of this magnitude.
Because it’s not just as simple as designing a do or a small ecosystem, but about designing an entire city.
Even if this city could only be considered a pocket city, possibly not even bigger than a district or a small town, it is still a ga-project rarely seen even before the disaster.
There aren’t many design institutes with experience in projects of this scale, and it’s not sothing a single design institute can complete.
If it were before the disaster, it might require several design institutes working together, with each responsible for a part, ultimately completing the design together.
Chen Xin, of course, had to report his plan to the state and seek its support, requesting them to assign design institutes and designers with sufficient design capabilities to complete this work.
Chen Xin’s plan appeared to have much higher feasibility than the previous Mobile Base logistics deploynt plan. Naturally, the higher-ups were very interested and felt that implenting this plan would be much less challenging than the Mobile Base logistics plan.
Therefore, the higher-ups strongly supported this plan, not only gathering experts from related fields to evaluate the feasibility of the entire plan but also notifying design institutes with the necessary qualifications to co up with relevant design proposals.
This kind of strong support from the state naturally greatly encouraged Chen Xin.
If possible, he didn’t like living underground either and preferred to live above ground, enjoying the environnt of green mountains and clear waters.
After patiently waiting for about half a month, the preliminary design proposals from various design institutes gradually arrived at Chen Xin’s desk.
Since he proposed the entire plan, these design proposals also needed his evaluation to select the ones he deed suitable.
Of course, it was rely half a month’s ti, so what each design institute could co up with was just simple drafts. There were no detailed designs; all were just preliminary planning and design of the main structure.
Since the general frawork for the Do City had already been decided, no one did much variation with the do itself, except with slight differences in the do’s layout thods.
Designs submitted by the various institutes included triangular structures, hexagonal structures, and even irregular designs, but overall, triangular designs were more common.
This design style isn’t fancy; it’s a very classic and reliable design, as the triangle is the most stable structure, which is the simplest principle of physics.
The do’s structure needs to support the entire weight of the do, so the more stable, the better.
The other structures aren’t said to be bad, but comparatively, Chen Xin still leaned more towards classic designs.
After all, this isn’t so landmark building, nor is it a unique masterpiece for designers to express their creativity freely, but rather a universal building that might be widely promoted in the future.
So being standard, solid, reliable, and practical is the most crucial.
As a result, in the design of the do, Chen Xin selected those that used the classic triangular structure.
Of course, aside from that, he did not exclude so non-triangular designs that caught his eye and kept them in the candidate range.
After all, he wouldn’t reject a better design.
Apart from the do, it’s the part where designers show their skills and demonstrate their talents, also the core part of the entire design—ground city planning.
The space beneath the do should be as large as possible and have a certain height to accommodate a city sufficiently.
For the city under the do, it clearly cannot be like most cities, filled with concrete and tall buildings, as that would not et the design requirents.
Since the initial review by the higher-ups, Chen Xin proposed that the city under the do must ensure sufficient greenery and an ecological environnt while also accommodating as many residents as possible.
This is undoubtedly a challenging requirent; ensuring greenery and an ecological environnt while accommodating more people is a trendous challenge for the designer.
Simply leaving open spaces for greening is not an option, as the total area is limited. If greening area increases, the building area naturally decreases, and with less usable building space, naturally fewer people can be accommodated.
Therefore, finding a balance between ecology and population becos crucial.
Fortunately, those able to receive this task are nationally outstanding designers, and such a challenge would not stump them.
The drafts that could appear before Chen Xin were filled with ingenuity by the designers, with so excellent designs even making Chen Xin exclaim in admiration; only a very small number of designs lacked highlights.
Designs without highlights need no further discussion and will naturally be eliminated. Although they lack highlights, they also lack drawbacks, but compared to those astonishing designs, the contrast is too stark and strong.
Among these brilliant designs, so combined greenery with architecture, matching the concept of ecological architecture before the disaster, building indoor ecological gardens and sky gardens, while expanding building spaces and areas to accommodate more people, also ensured the ecological environnt’s presence, enhancing the entire Do City’s beauty.
This is undoubtedly the design Chen Xin liked, just like his Research Center, with a lush environnt; who would prefer a view dominated by concrete?
Thus, after a round of selection, Chen Xin quickly chose a few designs he fancied.
Besides that, Chen Xin also selected so designs that, while not as dazzling, were stable and moderate.
This isn’t to make up numbers, but because he didn’t want to let his personal preferences influence the final outco. After all, these designs were submitted with much effort by the designers and highly professional.
For soone like Chen Xin, who is an outsider, except for those he finds unsuitable, he hasn’t eliminated any but instead left the next round of selection to the state’s specially assembled review panel to evaluate from a professional perspective.
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