After a seven days march through woodland, the traveller directed towards

Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from
the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the
city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves:
having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the
city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days
are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foliage.
There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate
the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid all contact; that they
love it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescopes
pointed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf,
stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with
fascination their own absence.

Baucis is a city of advanced beings, above and beyond material possessions and gain,
more interested in the preservation and rejuvenation of a nuclear war torn world.
They are self sufficient in the sense they grow their own food, generate heat and water
within the main dome, and oxygenate the dome with clean, breathable air via plant life.
There are multiple bio-domes within the main dome of the city. These contain a wealth of
different plant life, some ornamental and to preserve plant species, others more practical and
controlled as a food source.
This city was designed with the specific purpose of sustaining life after the nuclear fallout, it
is built simply but strong with all structures having a honeycomb hexagonal structure, and sustainability
is a large factor of the city.
Water is generated on the inside face of the city main dome through condensation, this runs down and is
collected in the canal running the edge of the city platform. The platform is slightly dipped in the centre, allowing the
water to flow inwards through the network of canals, separating the city into six districts. They also provide not only
hydration throughout the city but also emission free transport for the inhabitants via small boats. Excess water flows
into a storage tank within the city platform, as a reserve, and if the reserve overflows water is filtered out of water
tunnels on all sides of the platform, helping replenish the damaged world below.
In the centre of the city is the main terminus building, this acts as the main hub for surveillance on the world below,
with the citys leaders headquarters also situated here, and also has twelve large struts, two for each district, that run
gravity controlled cable carts, allowing quick and again emission free transport to the outskirts of the city.
Three of the districts, the eastern most districtsto allow best sunlight coverage, are reserved for the bio domes, each
district holding different selections, one for food, one for plants growing in cold environments, and one for warm environments. The temperature of the domes are controlled by glass thickness, dome insulation and a dome shading system.
The westernmost districts house the inhabitants accommodation buildings, tall and compact, making use of the limited space in the city dome, with small windows to conserve glass for the domes, and topped with further biodomes,
so as not to waste4 sunlight availability.