Minnan. com, August 24 th, put the ancient houses in southern Fujian into containers? You heard me right. It took Mr. Lin from Anhai, Jinjiang, two years to do this. Haidu reporter went in to experience it yesterday and was instantly shocked. How did he do it?
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Mr. Lin’s house is built on his own homestead in Anhai Town. From the appearance, except for the exquisite wooden appearance on the second floor, it is no different from ordinary houses, but the back room is unique. All kinds of common building components of ancient houses in southern Fujian gather together: red brick floor, stone trough as basin, stone mortar as tea urn, eaves tile as beam, and even the wall is made of "bricks into stones". Although the space is narrow, it is full of the essence of ancient houses in southern Fujian.
The stairwell absorbs old tiles, old flowerpots and other elements.
If it weren’t for Mr. Lin’s guidance, I couldn’t see at all that the foundation of this two-story Minnan residential style house was actually many stacked containers. Mr. Lin told Haidu reporter that most of the houses are made of large containers, covering an area of more than 100 square meters, with four rooms and two halls on each floor.
Mr. Lin is 42 years old. He used to do business, but now he is obsessed with building his own world. He recalled that when he lived in an old house in the countryside as a child, he looked at the water curtain of the old eaves in the world and felt comfortable in the house, warm in winter and cool in summer. Later, the old house was razed to the ground and replaced by the cramped cage life in the high-rise building, which made him very sad.
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary house. If you look closely, you can find the components of the container.
In order to rebuild the old house in his memory, since two years ago, he has been busy in various demolition sites in Jinjiang, scouring out all kinds of construction waste from the old house that is about to be demolished: red bricks, stone mills, tiles, tile tubes, fair-faced bricks, etc., and digging out beams carefully carved with Chinese fir from the broken tiles. Plus some wooden windows and ancient beds that I bought myself, the belongings of the ancient houses in southern Fujian are all together.
In the past two years, Mr. Lin, who has no architectural experience, has worked as a carpenter and a plumber, and finally transformed the container into an ancient residence in southern Fujian. Miraculously, the house is warm in winter and cool in summer, and Mr. Lin still has a quilt on his old wooden bed. "In this big summer night, not only do you need air conditioning, but you also need to cover the quilt!" (Haidu reporter Chen Zixuan text/map)