Chapter 245: Chapter 241: Refining the Design
The design of the sector did not consume too much of Perfikot’s time, after all, once you understand the principle and have ready-made ideas and models to copy, the design itself is not difficult.
The modular living units are ready-made; all that remains is permutation and combination, confirming the most suitable way to combine them.
Drawing on experience from playing some city layout games in the original world, Perfikot has some experience in how to reasonably plan a shelter.
After all, those construction games differ from reality; in reality, urban layouts must adhere to practical circumstances. It’s impossible for every public facility to be placed in the most suitable locations to ensure maximum coverage for all residents.
Sometimes, certain public facilities are inconveniently located or distant, or traffic congestion is frequent due to unreasonable traffic planning; these are common occurrences in real urban layouts.
But it’s different in games, where the bunch of stubborn citizens really revolt at the slightest dissatisfaction.
They box shirtless at negative 120 degrees, refuse to work overtime even during the apocalypse, lose the hearts and support rate at any dissatisfaction...
Perfikot can only say these troublesome citizens have their rebellious attributes maxed out; instead of maintaining them, she’d rather roll out autonomous dolls and machines, achieving fully automated mechanization with ease.
As for humans? Although there is a need to continue human civilization and maintain our kind’s existence, Perfikot always believes that those ungrateful citizens should be respected for their choices and express her inability to meet their demands, letting them resolve their needs and issues in the way they desire, without her leadership.
They can’t solve problems? Sorry, neither can I.
Abandon the thought of helping others, respect others’ destinies.
Some people indeed need help and rescue, but as for others? Respecting their choices and destinies is responsible both for oneself and others.
However, thanks to these troublesome citizens, Perfikot, tormented many times, does have insights into town layout planning.
Public service facilities must be placed at the center of the community to ensure roughly the same service access time regardless of community location and ensure even the farthest corners enjoy the convenience of public services.
And some facilities with broader impact, able to serve more people, need to be placed at the center of the town to radiate throughout the city.
As for production facilities providing resources to the city, they should all be located on the city’s outer ring to utilize cheap land to maximum extent.
Actually, real-life urban planning is not too different from this pattern; the city center is generally the core business district, surrounded by various residential areas.
Around residential areas, there is inevitably a small business district concentrating on market, supermarket, and other living facilities, providing services to the surrounding community, with schools, kindergartens, and other related facilities nearby.
The small business district of residential areas may expand into a commercial center during the city’s development, forming a multiple business district model, but there is always a core business district serving as the city center, while other business districts are distributed around.
Whether the city is laid out horizontally and vertically or in a grid pattern depends only on the city designer’s preference.
Although this content is just superficial knowledge Perfikot learned in middle school geography and politics classes, there are deeper aspects to real urban layout planning and design, yet the basic principles are indeed this.
Knowing these makes becoming a real municipal planner somewhat difficult, but designing and planning an underground shelter is not challenging.
Under Perfikot’s guidance, the underground shelter is designed as a multi-layer cylindrical structure, each layer composed of three sectors interconnected by ring roads, with two groups of six large elevators serving as daily transport between layers.
The spiral road at the cylinder’s core is for transporting goods inconvenient for elevators and as a backup method during elevator maintenance.
Besides these two methods, Perfikot also designed stairways at the sector’s outer edge for emergency vertical movement between layers.
The five hundred residential units in one sector will be divided into three blocks over three levels by two ring roads, each block equipped with public kitchens, washrooms, and toilets according to population, with shops at the center providing products and services to the sector’s residents.
As for schools, hospitals, and municipal services, other more central public service facilities will be distributed along the spiral street, forming the core of this cylindrical city.
Of course, this area is also the best location, as it’s close to the central heating tower, providing the most comfortable environment.
Correspondingly, greenhouses, factories, and Alchemy Workshops will be arranged in the sector’s outer layer, where Perfikot plans to install several lifting platforms to transport various goods, avoiding congestion of civilian elevators or occupation of spiral roads.
Perfikot knows her plan is crude and requires more refined optimization and design, but at least the framework of the underground shelter is built, and what’s left is how to expand it and optimize living quality.
However, Perfikot doesn’t want to bother with this; she plans to leave it to the Northern Territory’s civil servants for refinement.
After all, they currently have little work, and this task is their core responsibility.
Thus, after further refining the design, Perfikot instructed a maid doll to send the design to the civil department for refinement.
She herself then dedicated more energy to the shield machines, as she received a telegram from the New Continent that the first batch of ordered shield machine parts has been completed and will soon be shipped, arriving in the Northern Territory shortly.
Perfikot needs to coordinate a site and organize manpower to assemble it upon part arrival, then test the machine to see if any issues need further improvement.
She must admit, the presence of Alchemy in this world is a huge boon for design and development personnel; problems discovered during field testing can indeed be modified onsite without the hassle of disassembling parts for reprocessing or ordering new parts.
This undoubtedly saves a lot of time in shield machine research and design.