Starting from a Fake University-Chapter 66 - The Teachers and Students of the Architectural Academy_1

66: Chapter 66 The Teachers and Students of the Architectural Academy_1

66 -66 The Teachers and Students of the Architectural Academy_1

As the recruitment activities were announced, the entire student body boiled with excitement.

Everyone started to “eat melon”.

The “melon” eaten this time, was different from the one eaten during the military training.

Having the students themselves design the university library was a novelty to them.

Especially proud were the students from the School of Architecture.

Those studying structural engineering, architecture, and architectural design, were all eager to contribute to the library design recruitment activity.

This was a great opportunity for “practice”.

However, since most of the students’ knowledge base was not solid enough, more students chose to work collaboratively.

The teachers in architectural design had their Whatsapp apps blown up by students from their classes.

“Zhang, I have an idea.”

“Zhang, I think I can handle the library design, but I need your help!”

“Teacher Chen, I am Liu Yuanyang, a student majoring in architecture.

Upon seeing the school’s solicitation for library design, I was wondering if I could work with you on designing our school library?”

“Professor Su, are you there?”

The students’ enthusiasm was very high, they were looking for their teammates to design the library together.

The prize money was not important, what was crucial was wanting to contribute to the school (sarcastically)

Some students even went in-depth with the design, starting to plan the interior, water electricity and gas engineering.

Naturally.

Since most of the students were not professional enough, the designs they came up with seemed feasible in theory, but it was clearly impossible if they were actually used for construction.

After all, the design of a building involves too much technology.

Firstly, civil engineering and architectural engineering technology, architectural electrical engineering technology, building water supply and drainage engineering technology, fire protection engineering technology, building interior design technology, building gas, heating, air-conditioning engineering technology, etc.

The students are obviously a bit naive.

But the architecture teachers did have some level of expertise.

Under their guidance, some of the outstanding students from the School of Architecture started creating one design after another.

The school allotted two months for submission of designs for this competition.

This was because Ding Yue estimated that it would take some time to obtain approval for the allotment of land for educational purposes.

The school’s expansion would probably not start this semester.

In which case, it was better to give the students more time, and the school expansion plan would be taken step by step from the start of the winter vacation.

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Night time.

In a male dormitory building.

Liu Chuanjie was using computer software to design the library in his mind. novelbuddy.cσ๓

But he felt that all of his designs were not quite right.

Some of his roommates were playing games, others were reading books.

As all the students at the Mist City Arts and Science University can choose their own roommates, only one of Liu Chuanjie’s five roommates, Cui Hai, was studying the same major as him, the other four were “like-minded” friends he made when he first came to the school.

Since starting school, Liu Chuanjie found that he was able to devote a lot of energy and time to learning about architecture and architectural design.

What the teachers taught in the first semester of the first year were foundational courses that seemed too simple for Liu Chuanjie.

Now, Liu Chuanjie spent a lot of time in the library everyday, reading many architectural books intended for sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Liu Chuanjie didn’t know why.

His study efficiency was not comparable to that of his high school days, he was able to focus extremely well, his learning efficiency had greatly improved, he loved architecture, and had been throwing himself into learning about architecture since the beginning of the school year.

Liu Chuanjie is now very knowledgeable theoretically.

However, he was lacking actual design experience, and the school’s library design recruitment activity was Liu Chuanjie’s first practical experience in designing a building.

Let’s start with the simplest exterior design.

But speaking of it, exterior design is not simple.

If you want to design something outstanding, it takes a lot of brainpower.

Creativity needs to be fused with practical operability.

Otherwise, anyone can imagine all sorts of bizarre shapes for the appearance of a library, but the feasibility of construction and building, would be far too low.

Such works have creativity, and one could even draw a design blueprint, but the construction team has no way to build according to it.

Therefore, the university obviously would not collect such works.

“Chuanjie, are you still working on the library design?”

A foil-permed boy suddenly popped his head out of his bed netting from the bunk bed above.

This was Liu Chuanjie’s classmate Cui Hai.

“Yeah, in terms of exterior design, the main goal is to achieve novelty,” Liu Chuanjie analyzed.

“Cui Hai, what kind of exterior design do you think stands out?”

“Round, maybe, or elliptical, or like the Bird-Nest.”

“No, the round shape is too common, and a bird-nest shape would only suit a sports stadium,” Liu Chuanjie shook his head.

“Ah…

what kind of interesting shape can we come up with?

It all comes down to us not reading enough, our minds are not sharp enough,” Cui Hai finished, retracted his head, and prepared to play another round of King of Glory.

The memory of being screwed by Master Luban in the last round still made him upset.

“Not reading enough…Reading…Books?”

Liu Chuanjie suddenly found a eureka moment when Cui Hai gave him a hint.

The word “book” gave Liu Chuanjie a hint of inspiration.

“Book, book, book.

Aren’t people going to the library to read?

And aren’t there all books in the library?

So why can’t the exterior design of the library be like a book?” Liu Chuanjie muttered.

“Bro, what are you muttering about?” Cui Hai curiously popped his head out again and asked.

“I got an idea.

Cui Hai, your hint earlier sparked my thoughts.

Love you, muah~” Liu Chuanjie casually blew a kiss towards Cui Hai, then got serious and began to sketch the exterior design of the library in his mind on his computer software.

First, he sketched out a rough outline.

Then he slowly added in details, using all the professional knowledge he had learned in architectural mechanics, structural design, etc., to enrich the overall structure of this building.

That seemed like a big workload.

With only two months, Liu Chuanjie was worried that he might not be able to finish, and there were some difficult parts that he could not solve on his own.

Liu Chuanjie thought of his teacher, Su Weize.

So Liu Chuanjie picked up his phone and sent a message to Su Weize.

“Teacher Su, I have an idea.

I’ve sketched out an outline.

Can you help me see if it’s feasible?”

After sending the message, Liu Chuanjie sent the rough sketch of the “book” shape that he had just drawn to Su Weize.

Suddenly, Liu Chuanjie thought of something else and quickly drew the shape of a book on his computer software.

He now had two ideas.

One was the word “book” and the other was the shape of a book.

After completing the second rough sketch, Liu Chuanjie also sent it to Su Weize.

In a certain room in the teacher’s dormitory.

Su Weize was preparing to go to bed.

But before he went to bed, he saw a message from one of his best students, Liu Chuanjie, stating that he had an idea for the library design competition.

So Su Weize got interested and opened the two documents Liu Chuanjie sent him.

Opening the first one, it was a very rough outline sketch.

Liu Chuanjie designed the exterior of the library into the shape of the Chinese character for “book”.

Obviously, the whole thing was a two-story design, the vertical stroke in the middle, according to Liu Chuanjie’s idea, could be designed as an elevator.

The areas of both layers of the “book” character decreased upwards, but the left and right sides stretching out from where the first and second floor meet, Liu Chuanjie was thinking to design them as outdoor reading areas that could even be adorned with some plants.

“Student Liu Chuanjie, this idea of yours is pretty good, come to my office tomorrow, and let’s discuss it in detail.”

Upon seeing this very sketchy design draft from Liu Chuanjie, Su Weize found the exterior design structure so interesting that he was very willing to get involved in refining it.

Liu Chuanjie: Alright, Teacher Su, I’ll come find you tomorrow and we’ll have a thorough discussion!!!