Sichuan Quake Relief

地震灾区新房很漂亮 就是有点不“方便”

四川在线  (2009-02-17 06:48:24)  来源：四川在线-华西都市报

In a recent official survey conducted in Pengzhou City, it is odd, and in slightly awkward for the researchers to find that 160 villagers in Tian Shengqiao village had moved back to their temporary housings instead of the new villas which were built with financial aid from government, not long after their cheerful moving-in ceremony on Jan 16th.

It is rather difficult for people who haven’t been to the village in person to understand why these villagers are actually complaining about a new house that worth 90 thousand cost them only 20 thousand per family.

But actually, 3 things which are rather necessary and important to the residents were neglected when it was first designed – toilet, kitchen and yard.

Jingqiao Village is near a well-known temple, Bailu Shang Shu Yuan, which is over hundred years old. The local government has been planning to rebuild a temple and also redevelop the tourist business in this region; hence the rebuilt community was unified – planned and designed by Chengdu City government to make sure it consistent with the temple’s architectural style.
However the unified-planned walls are actually not the best choice for the environment where moisture and frost could gradually damage the buildings. More practically, without the traditional yards, where do the residents air their crops and keep their livestock?
It has been a challenging race for Tang Ming, a resident of Tian Shengqiao Village, to rush to the toilet on the hill side behind his new house at 6’o clock, first thing, every morning. “It’s a really long queue.” he said.
And just like many of his neighbours, Tang Ming and his wife have to walk 500m hill road to a “cookout” at the “community camp site” of Tian Shengqiao village, which is actually a couple of abandoned houses.
No kitchen, no toilet, and no place for livestock or poultry…therefore some villagers moved out before Chinese New Year, only 10 days after moving in. “It (the new house) looks good though.” said Tang, “it’s just really inconvenient to take a 500m walk to go to the toilet.”
“We had only 10 days to plan and design 400 reconstruction sites. It’s too little time for too much work.” Wang Songtao, the chief planner of Chengdu City Planning Bureau, explained to us.
Fortunately, after this survey, Chengdu City government has already started countercheck and feedback collection in general. New plan for 446 reconstruction sites is estimated to be finished before March, and sequentially improvement could be seen soon afterwards.
[SQR approx. translation into English]

彭州市通济镇天生桥村11组，由于统一规划的新房还没来得及修建厨房和厕所，或是缺乏传统的晾晒场地，160位村民在参加完“春节入住仪式”后，又悄悄搬了出来，继续在临时棚户中凑合……

当地政府准备重建这座小有名气的教堂，一座百年老教堂——白鹿上书院,借地震之机开发旅游，金桥村3组作为景区的一部分也将重建为风格统一的欧式洋房。

统一规划的红砖勾缝外墙，不仅很难和构造柱处理协调，也不适宜山里的气候，容易被霜霖和潮湿侵蚀腐化。更实际的是，大家都没了阳台和院子。今后晾晒粮食和衣服怎么办呢？

每天早上6点起床，57岁的唐明发第一件事就是以百米冲刺的速度，跑到自家新房后的那个山坡上抢厕所——“去晚了，人得排队到啥时候？” 没有厨房、厕所，没有晾晒粮食的坝子，没有鸡圈猪舍……于是有些村民还没等到大年三十又干脆搬回了山上的简陋棚户。“新房挺好看，但上厕所来回要跑一公里，太麻烦了！”

7点多，天空已经露出了鱼肚白。唐明发叫上妻子一起做饭。两人翻过崎岖的山坡来到离新家一里外的天生桥村“野炊营地”。借着几间废弃的砖房，村民们夹道砌起了密密麻麻的锅灶，露天摆放着许多水缸、碗盘和瓜菜。“入住”新房一个月了，野炊的日子还要过多久？唐明发有些迷茫。

“当初对灾区农村住房进行重建规划时，只有10天时间，对于全市400多个重建点位来说，时间太短、量太大，任务确实很艰巨。”成都市规划局总规划师王松涛坦言。

成都市委书记李春城日前实地调研后，天生桥村等成都灾区446个住房重建点位已全部开始全面复查，征求农民意见，预计3月前就将完成新的方案，完善重建新村。