Distant Shadows, Rising Clouds, Skyline: Practice of Yueyang Power Plant in Engineering Aesthetic Design with Cultural Empowerment

Objective The construction of Beautiful China should demonstrate the beauty of modern engineering and, more importantly, draw on fine traditional Chinese culture. This paper aims to explore design methods that use culture and aesthetics to improve existing industrial buildings, which are constrained by process modeling and engineering economy.

Method Through case studies and engineering practice, this paper examines aesthetic design cases of power projects at home and abroad, summarizes three perspectives—traditional regional culture, sci-tech innovation culture, and diversified integration culture—and applies them to the design concept of "Distant Shadows · Rising Clouds · Sky" for the new 2×1000 MW project of CHN Energy Yueyang Power Plant.

Result Through the design practice of typical projects, the engineering aesthetic design methods of "cultural empowerment expression", "innovation-driven design" and "shared integration and development" are refined.

Conclusion It is expected that starting from Yueyang Power Plant, this study will explore feasible paths for culture—acting as a conceptual starting point and innovation foundation—to empower engineering aesthetics, particularly in the overall planning and architectural design of thermal power plants.