shepherdab

樹屋 / Tree House

March-I／一年級／曾瑋老師組

放眼望去盡是生長中的平靜稻田，遠處卻立地拔起高可遮天的綿延山脈，裊裊人家炊煙。

All you see are peaceful growing rice fields. At the end of the sight is a range of majestic mountains that could cover the sky. Smokes curl up  from family chimneies. 

時而捲起稻浪。

Occationally comes the beautiful rice wave.

如果這裡有一條小溪，我會花三十年的時間做一座橋。以園藝的技巧引導樹幹橫向生長，其自身長出的支持根將深入河流，直到其達到對岸。

If there's a little stream, I would spend 30 years to build a bridge that is made of a living tree. Using garden techniques to guide its direction of growing. Its  prop root will extend to the river bed until the branch reach the other side of the shore.

如果稻野間需要一棟農人休憩的小屋，我會種數棵樹並將其枝幹嫁接在一起，使之成為同體的一棵大樹。施工期間延續五十年之久，甚至更多。

施工初期需要輔助的假支撐引導枝幹生長方向，隨著枝幹方向確定成型，可漸進地拆除假支撐。

If a cottage is needed in the middle of rice field for the farmers, I would plant several trees and gradually graft them together so that they become one same big tree. The growth of the tree would take 50 years or even more. At the beginning of construction, we need temparary structures to fix the right form of the tree house. Gradually the tree takes on its own life under the direction we set up, we can take the temparay structure off step by step.