I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 602 - 500 The Design of the Ring

While Chen Xin was redesigning the mining machinery, the subsequent design for the Dome City, which had passed the preliminary review, was also completed and submitted by various design institutes.

Compared to the initial drafts, which were just conceptual designs, the drawings with subsequent designs were much more detailed. However, it was still just a preliminary scheme, mainly improving upon the detailed zoning and various city layout designs absent in the first version of the draft.

As for the more detailed designs like water and electricity pipelines, those would only be followed up once a solid selection is made.

After all, although the designers from various design institutes now have more leisure without commercial design tasks, manpower is not to be wasted like this.

Nevertheless, even under these circumstances, the number of new design drawings gathered was still quite astonishing.

After all, this involved designing an entire city, and even though it was just a pocket-sized city with a pre-required diameter of no more than five kilometers, it still had to have all the functions a city should have.

City hall, schools, hospitals, shopping streets, residential areas, and green belts, parks specifically requested by Chen Xin, and more...

Each functional zone required a separate design, each building needed a unique design drawing. Even if detailed structural designs for each building were unnecessary, the appearance and dimensions still required prior completion.

Even though this was just a pocket-sized city, every design submission ultimately comprised dozens to hundreds of drawings.

Fortunately, network communications have been restored, and since transporting paper versions of the drawings is not easy, all the design institutes submitted electronic versions of the drawings.

This was undoubtedly good news for Chen Xin, as it meant he didn't have to laboriously review each design drawing one by one.

Heaven knows, there were over a dozen designs from the initial selection, each with dozens to hundreds of pages. Just quickly flipping through all of them would take a long time, let alone carefully reviewing them to select the suitable scheme.

Luckily, with electronic versions, he only needed to transmit these drawings to his wristwatch to project all the details from the drawings using nanoscale molecules, allowing him to understand the entire design scheme's specific details in a more intuitive, three-dimensional model form.

Moreover, Chen Xin could directly use nanoscale molecular projections to create a VR setup, simulating the drawings into three-dimensional images to experience what it's like to live in the designed city firsthand.

Thanks to these two methods, Chen Xin's review of the drawings was not slow.

The designs that passed the preliminary review naturally had their respective merits.

Although designing such a pocket-sized city was probably the first attempt for each design institute, it did not stump them.

Municipal planning for cities is something that every city has, and the layout design for this city provided ample reference and experience, enabling each design institute to achieve perfection in urban layout planning.

This is not an exaggeration, as when viewing a city's planned layout from a two-dimensional perspective, under limited city size, there exists an optimal solution.

The kind of layout and streets that can cover more areas and maximize the functionality of buildings actually have standard answers.

So when each design institute did everything to the utmost perfection, the planning and layout eventually had similar outcomes.

Breaking the framework of this standard answer, achieving innovation, and showcasing unique features were the true manifestations of each design institute's design skills.

For instance, designs that placed the Energy Tower and ecological greenhouse outside the dome, a collaboration between a certain design institute and a designer, were not uncommon in the designs submitted by different institutions.

Most of the designs Chen Xin received contained some unique designs like this, with only a few design drafts lacking innovative or unique features.

Design drafts without these unique features evidently did not hold much appeal for Chen Xin.

Of course, he wouldn't outright eliminate these lackluster designs, as standard designs, albeit lacking uniqueness, had the advantage of lacking major flaws.

Compared to some designs that deliberately adopted unconventional concepts for innovation, standard designs were more in line with a moderate approach.

Unique and eccentric designs might not suit everyone, nor meet everyone's needs and aesthetics, but standard designs didn't have such problems.

The standard answer may not be stunning, but at least it could be acceptable to everyone, making it more suitable for widespread adoption.

However, Chen Xin still preferred designs with some unique elements or creative ideas.

The standard answer was something most people could produce, but inventive creativity wasn't something everyone possessed. Creating unique features outside the standard answer naturally attracted more attention. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

For example, the design Chen Xin was currently viewing in VR creatively adopted a ring-shaped street design with three differently sized circles coset as the street pattern for the entire Dome City and elevated them into the air to leave ample greening space on the ground, exemplifying a design filled with ingenuity.

It somewhat borrowed from the overpass concept with greenery below, but one must admit this design was intriguing.

Three touching circles, with each circle being a closed one-way path and all three circles having the same road direction, naturally eliminated crossroad traffic jams—an alternative perspective that solved urban traffic congestion, eliminating the need for traffic lights.

This design was undeniably inventive and innovative, breaking the traditional straight-line road design. While it initially seemed inconvenient, upon further thought, the convenience of such roads could be recognized.

Design insights like these could be found, to varying degrees, in every design proposal Chen Xin received, delighting him.

However, ultimately, only one design would be chosen for the Dome City, and even if Chen Xin wanted more designs to be approved, in the end, all other proposals would be filtered out, leaving just one final plan.

If possible, Chen Xin would really like to combine the outstanding features from each design into a unified proposal, incorporating the strengths of each design institute's plan to create a design that merged all the merits.