He made several trips into the community around the institute looking for residents preparing to replace old structures with new ones, and offering to help them build the eco-homes he had designed. But many of the people he wanted to help were turned off by the mudbrick homes he proposed to build. Hsieh was unfazed.
他曾多次到學院所在的河北定州翟城村裡，希望找到準備拆舊房、蓋新房的農民，幫助他們蓋起自己設計的生態房，但很多人聽到他蓋的是火炕土牆的泥巴房，連連搖頭。