Architecture of Deus Ex Human Revolution #7: Hengsha Kuaigan Building Interiors

In this video, we look at the interiors of the buildings in the Kuaigan district of Hengsha, including the Hunghua 'hotel', The Hive nightclub, and the Alice Garden Pods apartments.

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[TheDevilsHatedSon]

are you sure its a train station or like an underground metro thing

[sckchui]

@TheDevilsHatedSon

Subway, metro, underground. Different names for pretty much the same thing. The network is not called a 'train', to avoid confusion with networks that are on the surface, but the vehicles are still called trains. Calling it a metro station is more accurate.

[Isaiah6517]

Does Hengsha mean anything?

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@Isaiah6517

Hengsha is an island near Shanghai. 横沙 The literal translation is something like "horizontal sand".

[masterm1k3]

Hive, beehive, honeycomb patterns. Maybe it's just a theme.

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@Isaiah6517

There are some columns, but they're pretty far apart. I actually don't think it's possible with current technology.

Small things don't work the same when they're made bigger. For example, imagine you have two beams to join together with bolts:

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Where they join is a surface, whereas the beams themselves are volumes. If you double the length, width, and depth, the surface (number of bolts) is 4 times bigger, but the volume (the weight) is 8 times. Not enough bolts for the weight.

[Isaiah6517]

@sckchui I am no engineer but could a huge dome like that be erected and stand without support underneath? Like pillars? I know huge stadiums have covers and all but this Pangu is much larger and also supposedly it has another city on top of it?

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@500deadbabies

No, the rich area is supposed to be above the Pangu, that giant metal plate above everything. Apparently, that was meant to be a city area where you can walk around like Detroit and lower Hengsha, but they dropped it because of time and budget limits.

[500deadbabies]

so the youzhao district is supposed to be the rich area right?

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@BleedingMemoriesXxX

Yeah, there's a bit of that. Hengsha itself, being a dense city in two layers, is like a hive, especially as it is shown in the cutscene when you first fly into the city (you might want to look for it on youtube, or better yet play the game). The Alice Garden Pods is also like a hive in many ways, although it's euphemistically called a "garden" instead. Ironically, you might say the nightclub is where people go to escape from work and the city, so it's the least hivelike.