Magellan/Evensbridge/Basin Gardens

Basin Gardens

This area was originally constructed to house the CEOs and senior managers of the rich import companies based in <address>Basin</address>, and every estate has at least one train line connecting to the Basin Express Circular to the North.

This area, between levels A97 and A113, is a suburban accommodation sector designed as a whole by noted architect Geriamiss Greenday. It is a picturesque landscape, with self-contained houses built on rock-and-soil islands, suspended by a mesh of downlines. These houses are divided up into 16 sub-sectors known locally as estates. To travel from one estate to another, you usually need to travel via <address>[1] Avenue itself (which also connects to the other sub-sectors [2] and Bridgeport to the south</address>), although many residents have set up unofficial bridges and ladders which provide a shortcut between one home and its neighbours.

Each island is carefully landscaped, with each estate imitating the style of a famous landscape designer or gardener from history, and has between 3 and 35 houses on it. The number of islands in an estate is also variable, and some islands have occasionally changed hands with the building of new road bridges. Each estate has its own village council, which is responsible for ensuring that the space remains aesthetically pleasing and consistent. The underside of the islands is a plasticrete shell, reinforced with xylenel and steel struts to support the weight of soil for gardening, and is painted in the colours of a sunset. Combined with the fairly open overhead layers of the neighbouring Gate Basin, through which the natural sky is partly visible, it can be hard to know that you are in a megacity at all.