Chapter 91 Final
Zhou Ruowei felt his cheeks getting hot and subconsciously turned around to find Feng You in the crowd.
Feng You is gentle, considerate and understanding. Every word she says to him seems to come from her heart, making him feel happy and comfortable.
No... Feng You didn't come to such an important occasion. Zhou Ruowei sighed in disappointment and lowered his head in silence. It is normal that Tao Nanfeng's design concept does not match his.
The ideas are naturally different because the service levels are different.
The houses designed by Zhou Ruowei are for middle-level and above cadres, experts and others in the unit. They have no worries about food and clothing, and their conditions are excellent, so their needs are naturally higher than those of ordinary people.
The kitchen and toilet areas are increased;
The indoor corridor layout reduces the utilization rate of the room.
——Who among those who study architecture doesn’t know that this is a waste?
But moderate waste is to ensure a better life, isn't it?
The houses designed by Tao Nanfeng are for young people and ordinary workers. They are faced with multiple pressures such as marriage, childbirth, and employment. They have low incomes and high expenses. They are the most ordinary people in society.
This kind of social group talks about saving and thrift all the time, and they would like to spend every penny carefully. How could they be willing to waste even a little bit?
Thinking of this, Zhou Ruowei took a deep breath, raised his head, stared at the architectural plan on the slide with his bright eyes, and carefully examined Tao Nanfeng's design from a professional perspective.
"This is the residence I designed for the educated youth on the farm. It is a two-story brick-and-wood structure with a corridor layout. The staircase is the central axis, with six 16-square-meter dormitories on each side. The east end is a public kitchen, and the west end is a public toilet and bathroom."
As Tao Nanfeng spoke, slides were projected in front of everyone.
“The architectural design has the following two characteristics.
First, architectural space has strong variability. The building structure is designed with the exterior walls and brick columns bearing the weight together, and the interior walls are all infill walls that can be removed. Each dormitory is supported by six brick columns, and a partition wall is added in the middle to divide the dormitory into two small rooms with an area of 8 square meters in the north and south.
Two single educated youth shared a dormitory, but each had an independent space in the dormitory and they did not interfere with each other's lives. If the unit is short of housing, four people can share a dormitory.
Newly married couples share a dormitory with a front hall and a back room, with reasonable functional divisions.
The south side has good lighting, but the windows facing the corridor have poor privacy; the north side is quiet and secluded, but the sunlight is poor.
If you love studying, you can place the bedroom on the south side and the study on the north side. If you like lively surroundings, you can place the living room on the south side and the bedroom on the north side for better privacy.
If you have children, you can apply for two dormitories. Doors can be opened on the internal walls, and the connectivity is good. The four rooms can be arranged into master bedroom, children's room, study, living and dining room according to respective needs. ”
Upon hearing this, the audience burst into discussion.
Before the question-and-answer session even started, some students couldn't wait to stand up and speak out their questions loudly.
"Tao Nanfeng, I would like to ask, the reason why the demand for housing construction in units is insufficient is because of the shortage of land. Why did you only design two floors and not more?"
The professors did not stop students from asking questions because this was also what they were confused about.
Tao Nanfeng smiled slightly: "Good question!"
She looked up at the student who asked the question: "Why not increase the intensity of land use and build three, four, or five floors? This should be considered according to different situations.
In large cities, the unit land area is limited, and the main contradiction is the contradiction between land area and building area. Therefore, the first consideration is to increase the floor area ratio and maximize the number of building floors while maintaining earthquake resistance. At present, the brick-concrete structure in Jiangcheng can reach six floors.
However, in our farm, the land area is sufficient. The main problems restricting the development of infrastructure are the difficulty in transporting construction materials and the high cost of reinforced concrete. Therefore, what I need to consider is how to increase the building area while reducing the cost.
I don’t know if you have noticed that the dormitory building I introduced at the beginning is not a brick-concrete structure, but a brick-wood structure. This dormitory building does not use a single steel bar! ”
Someone below shouted: "Without steel bars, only the outer wall bears the weight, is your building safe?"
Although students majoring in architecture do not have to study science and engineering courses such as theoretical mechanics, material mechanics, and structural mechanics like civil engineering students, they will also learn structural mechanics and have a certain understanding of the performance of structural mechanics. Everyone was so excited to hear Tao Nanfeng's design.
Brick and wood structures are load-bearing walls, both interior and exterior walls, otherwise it is difficult to ensure the safety of the structure. Brick columns rarely bear the load of two floors, and are mostly used only as canopy supports in the lobby.
Where did Tao Nanfeng get the courage to use brick columns to bear the weight of two floors? !
When Zhou Ruowei talked about his design ideas just now, no one questioned it at all. Everyone was impressed by his forward-looking thinking. The people below will only think——
Oh, that’s awesome!
Ah, his idea is so trendy.
Zhou Ruowei is worthy of being an outstanding senior student, and the works he designed are innovative.
But when it came to Tao Nanfeng, her narration brought everyone into an atmosphere.
It was as if everyone had become an employee anxiously waiting for housing allocation, and the people from the Infrastructure Department took out the design drawings to solicit opinions from the public. For the sake of their own interests and demands, everyone was excited and rushed to speak.
Tao Nanfeng was confident and calm, not panicking at all.
"The load-bearing capacity of masonry structures is actually not bad. The reason why brick columns are not chosen as the main structure is mainly because masonry structures are stable and have poor earthquake resistance. Our Xiufengshan Farm has good geological conditions and we don't have to worry about this problem, so I chose brick columns as the main structure."
She casually recited a series of data, listening to the students majoring in architecture's heads buzzing.
The crushing feeling that came from the civil engineering profession came over us again, and everyone shut up and dared not question the safety of the structure anymore.
Tao Shouxin lowered his head and smiled gently. This child has special abilities, and there will definitely be no problem with the house she builds. But in order to shut everyone up, she spent a lot of time studying mechanics, and she even borrowed all the professional books from Professor Ouyang's house next door.
Today is her day to show her achievements.
Professor Huang Jiafa stood up, raised his hands and pressed them down: "Dear students, please save your questions for later in the Q&A session."
The students below smiled shyly and said in unison: "Okay!"
Tao Nanfeng continued speaking.
"The second characteristic of the design of the dormitory for educated youths is the socialization of housework. As we all know, housework includes a lot of things, such as cleaning, cooking, washing clothes, tidying up... It's trivial and time-consuming."
Now it was the professors' turn to nod.
There were children whispering below who understood their parents’ hardships.
"My mother has been working non-stop since the morning. She prepares three meals a day, buys groceries, cooks, washes clothes and tidies up the house. It's really hard work."
"My sister has been helping my mom with housework since she was six years old, and she hasn't even finished junior high school."
"My dad would bring some food on his way home from get off work and help wash the dishes at night. Guess what happened? A bunch of men at work laughed at my dad and said he was henpecked. My mom also works to earn money, so shouldn't she share the housework? It's as if housework is supposed to be done by women!"
Most of the educated youth who went to the countryside were between fifteen and twenty years old. They were all children. From adolescence to adulthood, they had to start a family and raise children. One of the big problems they faced was who would take on the housework.
Under the influence of the long farming culture, men are the breadwinners and women are the homemakers, which has become the mainstream. Regardless of whether they are both working or whether women are career-oriented, this society defaults to women giving birth to children, raising children, and doing housework.
Thinking of what his mother Xu Xiqin once said, "socialization of housework," Tao Nanfeng's eyes reddened and his heart was filled with compassion.
"So, the dormitory I designed for the educated youth this time took this into full consideration and tried to socialize housework. Please see the slides -"
The public kitchen at the east end of the dormitory building is displayed to everyone.
"There are twelve dormitories, twelve stoves, twelve workbenches, and six sinks, all marked with the corresponding dormitory numbers and allocated to each household. Even employees who choose to eat in the cafeteria will be allocated a stove and bring their own kitchen utensils, making it very convenient to cook."
The question was raised again: "How can this be seen as the socialization of housework?"
Tao Nanfeng smiled and replied: "The smoky atmosphere in the kitchen is a joy in life and also a bond that brings the family together. It is not appropriate to let outsiders do the work for us, so I buy vegetables, cut vegetables, wash vegetables, and cook them myself. If you really don't want to cook, you can go to the cafeteria to eat, which is simple and casual."
Without waiting for anyone to question her, she changed the subject.
"However, cleaning the kitchen, washing the sink, and disposing of food waste are all things that need to be done in public kitchens and are completed by the corridor cleaners.
In addition, the corridor is equipped with a sink and a drying rope, which makes it very convenient for everyone to wash and dry clothes in the morning.
Corridors, sinks, public toilets and bathrooms are all public facilities and are cleaned by cleaners every day. Free everyone from tedious and repetitive housework and devote their time and energy to more interesting and meaningful things.
Reading, reading newspapers, listening to the radio, studying, working, chatting, meeting friends...
There are countless joys in life. I hope we can live and work in peace and contentment in this dormitory building for educated youths, love what I love, do what I do, be a useful person to the society, and be a person who makes myself happy! ”
There was silence below.
Tao Nanfeng raised his eyes and looked quietly at the audience.
The professors all looked at Tao Nanfeng seriously, as if they were considering how to ask questions.
Thinking of the days when Xu Xiqin and he supported each other, tears welled up in Tao Shouxin's eyes.
From a young lady who had never done housework to studying abroad and then teaching in China, Xu Xiqin did everything herself, taking care of the children, cooking, washing clothes, and sweeping the floor. She never complained, but comforted herself gently: "First, be a good wife, then have a good family."
Without Xu Xiqin's dedication, Tao Shouxin would never have achieved what he has today.
Wu Xianling looked at Tao Nanfeng, who was shining brightly on the stage, and her voice choked up a little: "Sure enough, she is worthy of being Xu Xiqin's child!"
The idea of "socialization of housework" proposed by Xu Xiqin during the department's ideological discussion was extremely avant-garde and thought-provoking. At that time, some male teachers sneered at her, thinking that Xu Xiqin's ideas were decadent and corrupt, but Wu Xianling admired her very much and felt that she expressed the voice of career women.
Xu Xiqin couldn't change the world back then, but her daughter grew up.
Tao Nanfeng has implemented the idea of "socialization of housework" into architectural graphic design, which is amazing!
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