Chapter 903 Rhine Palace

Of course, compared to the East African Empire People's Parliament Building, the most important building in the entire Rhine City is obviously the new palace of East Africa - the Rhine Palace.

The design of the Rhine Palace is still in progress, unlike the Empire State Building, which has already started construction. After all, as a future residence, Ernst is naturally very careful and has many requirements.

"This time, the design of the Rhine Palace is not focused on the palace, but on the garden, paying attention to the Feng Shui pattern, creating a harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and combining the East and the West."

These are Ernst's original words. In Ernst's view, it is enough for a palace to have an iconic one, and there is no need to win in scale and quantity, such as creating a complex of buildings like the Forbidden City or a giant single palace building like the Palace of Versailles.

Take the Palace of Versailles and the Forbidden City as examples. Versailles covers an area of ​​more than 1.1 million square meters, while the Forbidden City is actually a complex of buildings, covering an area of ​​1.43 million square meters and a construction area of ​​2.184 million square meters.

From the data, the later Versailles Palace seems to be larger than the Forbidden City. In fact, the Palace of Versailles has a huge garden area, while the Forbidden City is only the area of ​​the current Far Eastern Royal Inner City.

However, Ernst personally does not like European gardens because they are too regularly planned and pay attention to geometric shapes. Take the garden of the Palace of Versailles as an example. It has a sense of déjà vu of the Far Eastern Empire city park in the later generations.

Therefore, Ernst hopes that the garden of the Rhine Palace will conform to the topography of the Rhine City, blend with nature, and be "messy" better.

Therefore, the design of the Rhine Palace this time is not completely realized by Western designers like the design of the Sweet Palace last time. Instead, a group of garden designers were borrowed from the Far Eastern Empire to realize the design of the Rhine Palace.

In the design of the Rhine Palace garden, the main reference is the garden in the north of the Far Eastern Empire. First of all, the talents in the hands of the Far Eastern Empire government are relatively concentrated. There are a large number of royal gardens and private gardens in the north, and the professionalism is beyond doubt.

And considering the precipitation, the precipitation in Rhine City is more than 800 mm, which is just between the north and south of the Far Eastern Empire.

Therefore, it is not very realistic to build "small bridges and flowing water" in Rhine City. Secondly, the overall atmosphere of the palace should also be solemn, solemn and grand, while the southern gardens are more delicate, complex and implicit.

This will appear out of tune with the overall East Africa. Of course, the northern garden design pays attention to strict rules, neat layout, symmetry, and the use of central axis and landscape lines.

This is also undesirable for Ernst, too rigid, so the garden design of the Rhine Palace is actually to integrate the different characteristics of the West and the East.

However, the overall effect is more inclined to the characteristics of the northern gardens of the Far East Empire. The biggest difference between the two is that there is no obvious winter in East Africa, so the vegetation will not change too much with the change of seasons.

Secondly, adopt the informal layout of the southern gardens and try to design according to the local natural environment and river terrain.

As a tributary of the Luangwa River, a tributary of the Zambezi River, the Rensemfuwa River actually has many tributaries on both sides, and the Rhine Palace will use these small rivers to realize the garden layout of the Rhine Palace.

This is the overall feature of the Rhine Palace in the garden. According to Ernst's requirements, plus the garden area, the area of ​​the Rhine Palace finally reached only about 300,000 square meters, which is not much different from the palaces of most countries in the world.

But this is only the overall area, including the garden, not the building area. Ernst expected the upper limit of the building area to be only 50,000 square meters, which is only the upper limit, that is, the final effect may be less than 50,000 square meters.

This scale can only be regarded as average among the palaces of various countries in the world, but it is nearly twice as large as the Sweet Palace in the first town.

In the final analysis, the Rhine Palace that Ernst expected in his heart was just a palace in a garden, not even as large as some universities.

However, this is also equivalent to a disguised reflection of the "thrifty" spirit of the East African royal family, unlike many European countries now, which make the palace magnificent and large in scale, and there is more than one, such as the famous Versailles Palace in France, the Louvre, the Fontainebleau Palace, and the Elysee Palace.

Austria also has a distinction between winter palaces and summer palaces. For example, the Schönbrunn Palace is the summer palace, and the winter palace is the Hofburg Palace.

East Africa previously had only one palace, the Sweet Palace, and it was relatively small in scale. Of course, the climate of East Africa also determines that there can be no winter and summer palaces in East Africa.

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The overall construction of Rhine City obviously started from the administrative district. As mentioned earlier, it can be divided into three parts, namely the palace district, the national administrative center district, and the city center administrative district.

Among them, the palace district and the national administrative center district are closely connected, and the city center administrative district, that is, the Rhine City Government, is close to the center of urban planning.

Of course, in terms of traffic accessibility, although the national administrative center district is not in the center of Rhine City, it is not worse than the Rhine City Government.

East Africa is preparing to build three railways to achieve direct connection between Rhine City and Kabwe City, New Frankfurt City, and Tete City.

That's right, along the Zambezi River Railway, it will eventually pass through the first town and then connect to New Frankfurt City. After all, as the capital of East Africa, Rhine City does not mainly assume the function of a major transportation hub.

But Rhine City must be a transportation hub city. In simple terms, the railways through Rhine City are given priority to officials, civil servants, the military, students and Rhine citizens.

The intensity of use of the two is different. To put it bluntly, the new Frankfurt City does rough work, while the Rhine City does "high-end" work.

At present, the Rhine City as a whole is a large construction site, and the priority construction is railways, roads and other basic transportation, and even subways and civil air defense projects have corresponding plans.

This is quite advanced. After all, there are no planes in the current period, and there are no so-called bombers that can threaten the airspace of East Africa.

And even if there are planes, according to the location of Rhine City in the hinterland of East Africa, it is also determined that it is not easy to fight here. After all, enemy planes can fly here, which can only mean that East Africa is definitely not good.

As for the subway, it is not a new thing. Britain built the world's first subway as early as 1863, and there is no big problem on the technical level.

Of course, East Africa is only building tunnels first, which is relatively easy for Rhine City, which is completely a high-rise building on flat ground.

At present, only the UK has a subway, and East Africa may be the second or third country in the world to have a subway.

Because the countries that built railways at the same time as East Africa also included the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungary (opened in 1896) planned the first subway to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of Hungary's founding. The United States also had related plans, but the time was a little later (opened in 1897).

Of course, East Africa may be faster, after all, the construction difficulty is relatively weak. Now the Rhine City is a blank slate, so the construction difficulty is also relatively low, while other countries' subway construction is built in existing cities and more prosperous areas, so there are more unfavorable factors to consider.

Of course, even if the construction is completed, it will take a long time to open it, after all, the current Rhine City is completely an "empty city".

Like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the first subway in East Africa uses electricity as the main power source, and the relevant technology mainly comes from locomotive research and development institutions in cities such as Dar es Salaam and Mbeya, which also reflects East Africa's growing ability in related scientific fields.