Starting from a Fake University-Chapter 77 - Liu Chuanjie Group’s New Design_1

77: Chapter 77 Liu Chuanjie Group’s New Design_1

77 -77 Liu Chuanjie Group’s New Design_1

Mist City Arts and Science University’s Administrative Building.

Inside a spacious multimedia conference room.

Teachers and students from the School of Architecture are gathered, engaged in lively discussions about their respective design pieces.

“You see, this design, in terms of overall structure, is highly feasible for architectural mechanics…”

“I think our team’s library design should be chosen.”

In the conference room, Liu Chuanjie and his teacher Su Weize have also arrived.

Other than Liu Chuanjie and Su Weize, the team also includes Liu Chuanjie’s roommate, Cui Hai.

They collaborated to design a creative library based on the character for “book”.

The idea was born from student Cui Hai.

The library’s physical design is credited to Liu Chuanjie.

Su Weize, an Architecture faculty, refined and developed the structure with his two students.

The trio spent over a month designing the library.

At last, they completed a design they could confidently submit.

It was rumored that today, Principal Ding and Director Chen Ping of the School of Architecture will personally select the design for the new library of Mist City Arts and Science University.

The new library will be built according to the selected design.

There are hundreds of students in the School of Architecture.

Up until now, seven groups have submitted their designs, and Liu Chuanjie has high hopes for his team’s work.

“Liu Chuanjie, what is your team’s design?

You all seemed so secretive.”

A classmate of Liu Chuanjie approached, grinning as he asked.

This student, who was also among the more innovative students in the School of Architecture, was named Zhao Chi.

“What about you?” Liu Chuanjie counter asked.

“Well, we will see today.

I might as well let you know, our design is based on classical architecture.

Want to take a look?”

Zhao Chi said confidently.

“Sure.” Liu Chuanjie nodded, interested to see just how “outstanding” Zhao Chi’s group’s classic architecture-inspired library design was.

“Lu Zheng, please bring our design up.

Let’s provide Liu Chuanjie a sight for sore eyes,” Zhao Chi said to his teammate.

“Alright.”

Lu Zheng connected his laptop to the multimedia devices in the room, then brought up the images of their library design on the large screen.

Before today, the designs of all the teams were not disclosed.

But now that the library designs of all groups were finalized, and evaluations were imminent, showing off their work and boosting their team’s spirits was fitting for Zhao Chi’s character.

“Archive!”

“Oh, this design influenced by ancient architecture has something.”

“Wouldn’t it be a bit scale-limited?”

“Yueyang Tower?”

“Zhao Chi, your team did a remarkable job.”

“It has a classical feel.”

“This ancient architectural Archive model looks great.”

Other students started to praise when they saw the design from Zhao Chi’s group.

Utilizing classical architectural design has its significance.

“Which group’s design is this?

It’s pretty good.”

At this moment, Principal Ding’s voice came from the doorway of the conference room.

Principal Ding and Director Chen Ping took notice immediately when they saw a library design on the big screen upon entering the room.

The design was named “Mist City Arts and Science University Archive,” and Principal Ding’s first impression of it was good.

“Principal Ding, this is the design from our team.

This is our Mist City Arts and Science University Archive!” Zhao Chi proudly said upon hearing Principal Ding inquiring about the design.

“The implication is good, but for a classical architecture…”

Looking solely at the design of this ancient-styled Archive building, it is indeed good, but if the accompanying facilities around it consist of modern architectures.

Wouldn’t it appear immensely incompatible?

Zhao Chi suddenly felt a sense of unease.

Was his team’s library design going to be rejected by Principal Ding?

He was feeling anxious.

“Okay, everyone return to your seats.

Principal Ding and I will now evaluate the submissions from each group and select the final design for the new library of Mist City Arts and Science University.

The winning team will receive a cash prize of 100,000 yuan!”

Director Chen Ping prepared everyone in the room to launch the meeting, briefly explaining the agenda for the day.

“Let’s begin.”

Principal Ding sat at the forefront of the conference room and gave a slight nodded to Director Chen Ping.

Then Director Chen Ping asked the first team to present their library design.

“Principal Ding, Director Chen, our team’s design is square shaped, giving a very straightforward and neat impression…” a student from the first group introduced.

Principal Ding felt this square design was rather dull.

Next, the second team introduced their design.

Their design was interesting, formed by linking pillar-like structures similar to pen rods together to form a small building group.

Each cylindrical library building segment categorized into ABCDEF sectors was creative, but was it practical?

Wouldn’t connecting so many cylindrical library buildings together give people vertigo?

Moreover, if each cylindrical building design is too large, the total area becomes excessively exaggerating.

If each cylindrical building is small sized, it would appear stingy, and managing the height of the cylindrical building is problematic.

If it’s low, it doesn’t resemble a pen rod.

If it’s high, the library doesn’t need to be so heightened, right?

Under normal circumstances, if a library adopts an imposing structure, typically three or four stories, it would equivalently be several stories of a common building, and this seems ideal.

Having too many layers in a library doesn’t seem right.

Hence this library design needs further consideration.

Principal Ding found the following two library designs lackluster, with no significant highlights.

Then came the “Archive” from Zhao Chi’s team, a design mimicking ancient architecture.

Principal Ding was quite pleased with it.

However, the sole issue was that this particular design would contrast dissonantly against the surrounding modern buildings.

He put a pin in it and decided that if later designs did not stand out, adopting Zhao Chi’s group’s design would also be a passable choice.

“Next will be the design created in collaboration by Su Weize, Liu Chuanjie, and Cui Hai,” Director Chen Ping introduced to Principal Ding.

Liu Chuanjie then brought forth the final design collaborated between himself, Cui Hai, and Lu Weize.

Initially, they utilized the concept of “book”.

They had considered the shape of a book, and even produced corresponding designs.

However, due to the mechanical structure issues that a “book”-shaped library would bring about, such a design was not operational.

The external design in the shape of a book was also dismissed because Liu Chuanjie discovered that numerous domestic and overseas designs were like this.

It wasn’t novel enough.

Eventually, they unanimously decided to design a completely new library based on the implications of two classic poems after discussions among the three.

The first poem was “Diligence is the path up the mountain of knowledge; hardship is the boat to cross the endless sea of learning.”

The second line was, “The time will come when the wind will break the waves; the cloud sails will cross the ocean.”