It is a sunny, sweltering day in the Meihua community on the mountainside outside of Luotung Township (in Ilan County). With the aim of building a thatch cottage, a group of old farmers, various tools in hand, leads a gaggle of more than 30 university students and teachers of architecture into the mountains--looking for all the world like a military unit scaling a precipice.
為了要蓋一間茅草屋，在溽暑蒸人的豔陽天，宜蘭縣羅東鎮山邊的梅花社區裡，一群田莊阿伯仔，身帶著十八般工具，領著三十多個建築系的大學生、老師們，浩浩盪盪的往田邊山裡去。