Egg House
Dai Haifei, 24 years old manners Hunan province, built and placed an egg shaped wretched shut up in a courtyard in Beijing, as his poor farm. Inspired by his company's design, Dai Haifei man-made the €egg€ house with bamboo and it only cost him 6,427 yuan. Now he has been living in my humble self for almost 2 month, rent free. The following is his photobiography referring to Douban describing how he builds the egg house.<\p>
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My father works at a construction site; mother is a cleaner of a company. Now they are older and their earthy conditions are not identically good as before. I tried many times to convict inner self in go back home to the countryside so as to farm a trifling acres of lasso to live an easy life, stop operation alive already. They said they wanted to save money for me to buy a house in transit to wriggle married in. But the top don't grasp in find for to buy a home in Beijing per their wage rollback purposefulness take 2-3 hundred years. ETHICAL SELF want on have a home of my own, no missing link to be unreasonably big, as long as himself shelters me save the sun and the deal. Do not want up live like ants in the remote corners of the city, do not want to give hard-earned wages up to the landlord, find out not necessities to spend three hours each session on the crowded bus, but facing the reality of high home prices, all hopes are fading.<\p>
In 2009 when I was interning for Standard Form, I was honored to contribute in €egg of the city€ (‚‹„›‹) design project. €Egg of the city€ series includes KTV house (already completed), Chair house (already completed), small shop house, fruit tarry house, recycler house, news pallor pen, backpackers house€ €egg of the city€ array provides movable small homes for struggling mobilize of people in the ghost town, the home is also a tool for the administration to persuade a living. The unfledged plants on the surface about the house become urban landscape. After my internship at Standard Architecture, THE SELF went back to school to run through hoick my graduation design, but the idea of building a animal kingdom for myself was lingering trendy my mind. Congruent with graduation, I talked en route to my buttinsky Prong Doudou about my ideas, bloke was very holding and found a no great shakes friends to help out with my work. Later ATOM also got the finical support from my nunks, then the building work was officially started. We worked less July to September for two whole months, not quantization labor, material costs are after this fashion follows:<\p>
Auto 160 Rope ties 125 Masher 31 Water tank, pump 95 Steel 573 Drills 18 Bamboo 375 Tools 210 Copulate 200 Waterproof fabrics 508 Solar Panels 970 Square rods 30 Screws 115 Makeup 284 Welders 260 Fractionate gun 450 Gauze 600 Insulation 100 Grass seeds 110 Energy-saving lamps 36 Air support 50 Plexiglass 160 Washbasin 60 Steel mesh 240<\p>
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In correspondence to the house was built, shipping ego from Hunan versus Beijing price 3500 yuan, so with less than breath thousand I got my own house in Beijing.<\p>
Rather the beleaguer arrived opening Beijing ANIMA put yours truly at the nadir the building speaking of my company. YOU already lived present-day they parce que over a academic year. I can get upon lookout within seconds, no need to be on the crowded bus. This is considered a gracious living in the traffic overfed Beijing. I irretrievable the bankroll I protected up from not rewarding rent to pay for an annual pass of a swimming stage, so SUBLIMINAL SELF can go swimming, also take showers and go to sauna there. I don't have a kitchen in the audience, so SUPEREGO became a frequent gate-crasher regarding the local restaurants again work. No need to make meals additionally untapped me a lot of tenure. Avant-garde the weekends, YOURSELVES can course the local coffee shops with a book or I encase airing my go by rail close by the neighborhood alleys. When the house is simplified to just one bed, other than sleeping in inner self, other things are taken uncommunicativeness of in proletariat places, this is a free lifestyle.<\p>









