I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 598 - 496: Design Draft

Building a dome 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 scheme.

This task naturally isn’t something an ordinary designer can handle, and even some smaller design institutes can’t undertake work of this magnitude.

Because it’s not just as simple as designing a dome 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 mega-project rarely seen even before the disaster.

There aren’t many design institutes with experience in projects of this scale, and it’s not something 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 deployment plan. Naturally, the higher-ups were very interested and felt that implementing 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 come 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 environment 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 deemed suitable.

Of course, it was merely half a month’s time, so what each design institute could come 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 framework for the Dome City had already been decided, no one did much variation with the dome itself, except with slight differences in the dome’s layout methods.

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 dome’s structure needs to support the entire weight of the dome, 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 some 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 dome, Chen Xin selected those that used the classic triangular structure.

Of course, aside from that, he did not exclude some 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 dome, 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 dome should be as large as possible and have a certain height to accommodate a city sufficiently.

For the city under the dome, it clearly cannot be like most cities, filled with concrete and tall buildings, as that would not meet the design requirements. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Since the initial review by the higher-ups, Chen Xin proposed that the city under the dome must ensure sufficient greenery and an ecological environment while also accommodating as many residents as possible.

This is undoubtedly a challenging requirement; ensuring greenery and an ecological environment while accommodating more people is a tremendous 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 becomes 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 some 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, some 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 environment’s presence, enhancing the entire Dome City’s beauty.

This is undoubtedly the design Chen Xin liked, just like his Research Center, with a lush environment; 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 some 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 outcome. After all, these designs were submitted with much effort by the designers and highly professional.

For someone 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.