"In any event it's just a question of how many rooms the house has, and of making the most economical use of the land available by squeezing out the largest possible amount of space," says Associate Professor Lin Sheng-feng of the architecture department at Tamkang University, describing what has become the "normal state" of house-building today.
「反正都是幾房幾廳，在最節省土地成本的原則下，擠進最大的面積就對了」，淡江大學建築系副教授林盛豐說出如今蓋屋起厝的「常態」。