Chapter 903 Rhine Palace
Of course, compared to the East African Imperial People's Parliament Building, the most important building in the entire Rhine City is obviously the new royal 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 its future residence, Ernst naturally paid extra attention to it and had many requirements.
"The design of the Rhine Palace this time focuses not 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 to have one iconic palace. There is no need to win in scale and quantity, such as creating a complex of numerous 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 for example. Versailles covers an area of more than 1.1 million square meters, while the Forbidden City is actually a complex of buildings, covering a land area of 1.143 million square meters and a building area of 2.184 million square meters.
Judging from the data, the later Palace of Versailles 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 East royal inner city.
However, Ernst personally did not like European gardens because they were too regularly planned and focused on geometric shapes. Take the gardens of the Palace of Versailles as an example. They gave a sense of the city parks of the Far East empire of later generations.
Therefore, Ernst hoped that the garden of the Rhine Palace would conform to the topography of the Rhine City, blend with nature, and be a little "chaotic".
Therefore, the design of the Rhine Palace this time was not entirely 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.
The main reference for the design of the Rhine Palace gardens was the northern gardens of the Far Eastern Empire. Firstly, the Far Eastern Empire government has a relatively concentrated amount of talent, and there are a large number of royal gardens and private gardens in the north, so their professionalism is unquestionable.
And considering the precipitation, the overall precipitation in Rhine City is above 800 mm, which is exactly between the north and south of the Far East Empire.
Therefore, it is not very realistic to create "small bridges and flowing water" in Rhine City. Secondly, the overall atmosphere of the palace should tend to be solemn, dignified 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, northern garden design emphasizes strict rules, neat layout, symmetry, and more use of central axes and opposite views.
This was not desirable for Ernst as it was too rigid, so the garden design of the Rhine Palace was actually intended to integrate the different characteristics of the West and the East.
However, the overall effect is more inclined towards the characteristics of the northern gardens of the Far Eastern Empire. The biggest difference between the two is that there is no obvious winter in East Africa, so the vegetation will not change much with the change of seasons.
Secondly, adopt the informal layout of southern gardens and try to design it according to the local natural environment and river topography.
The Runsemfuwa River is a tributary of the Luangwa River, a tributary of the Zambezi River. In fact, there are many tributaries on both sides of the river. 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 final area of the Rhine Palace only reached 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 gardens, not the building area. Ernst expected the upper limit of the building area to be only 50,000 square meters, and this is just the upper limit, which means that the final effect may be less than 50,000 square meters.
This scale is only considered average among palaces in various countries around the world, but it is nearly twice as large as the Sweet Palace in the First Town.
After all, the Rhine Palace that Ernst had envisioned was just a palace in a garden, not even as large as some universities.
However, this is also a disguised reflection of the "frugal" spirit of the East African royal family. Unlike many European countries today, they do not build palaces that are magnificent and large in scale, and there are more than one. For example, the Palace of Versailles in France is very famous, and the Louvre, Fontainebleau Palace, and Elysee Palace are not bad either.
Austria also has the distinction between the Winter Palace and the Summer Palace. For example, Schönbrunn Palace is the Summer Palace, and the Winter Palace is the Hofburg Imperial Palace.
Previously, East Africa only had one royal palace, the Sweet Palace, which was relatively small. Of course, the climate of East Africa also determined that it was impossible to have a distinction between 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 area, the national administrative center area, and the city center administrative area.
The palace area is closely connected to the national administrative center, while the city center administrative area, namely the Rhine City Government, is close to the city planning center.
Of course, in terms of transportation accessibility, although the National Administrative Center is not in the center of Rhine City, it is no worse than the Rhine City Government.
East Africa is preparing to build three railways to directly connect the cities of Rhineland and Kabwe, New Frankfurt and Tete.
That’s right, along the Zambezi River Railway, it will eventually pass through the first town and then connect to the new city of Frankfurt. After all, as the capital of East Africa, Rhine City does not mainly serve as a major transportation hub.
But Rhine City must be a transportation hub city. Simply put, the railways passing through Rhine City should be provided first 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 the rough work, while the Rhine City does the "high-end" work.
At present, the entire city of Rhine is a large construction site, with the priority being the construction of basic transportation such as railways and roads, 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, let alone so-called bombers that can threaten the airspace of East Africa.
And even if there were planes, Rhine City's location in the heart of East Africa would make it difficult to fight here. After all, if enemy planes could fly here, it only meant that East Africa was definitely no match for them.
As for the subway, it is nothing new. The United Kingdom built the world's first subway as early as 1863, and there are no major problems on the technical level.
Of course, East Africa is now only carrying out tunnel construction, which is relatively easy for Rhine City, which is completely built on flat ground.
At present, only the United Kingdom has a subway, and East Africa may be the second or third country in the world with a subway.
Because other countries that built railways at the same time as East Africa included the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungary planned its first subway (opened in 1896) to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the founding of Hungary. The United States also had related plans, but it was opened a little later (opened in 1897).
Of course, the progress in East Africa may be faster. After all, the construction difficulty is relatively easy. Now the Rhine City is a blank slate, so the construction difficulty is relatively low. The subway construction in other countries is all built in existing cities and relatively 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, Rhine City is now a complete "empty city".
Like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, East Africa's first subway was powered by electricity, and the relevant technology mainly came from locomotive research and development institutions in cities such as Dar es Salaam and Mbeya, which also reflects East Africa's growing capabilities in related scientific fields.
(End of this chapter)
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