Construction company incorporates centuries-old city walls into apartment complex
Construction company incorporates centuries-old city walls into apartment complex
2022-09-30
A construction company in Kaohsiung held a ceremony on Friday to unveil a unique building: a modern residential high rise incorporating the ruins of the defensive walls of an old city that dates back more than 300 years to the Qing Dynasty. The construction company says it found the remains by chance while excavating the site. It then decided to change the building’s floor plans to preserve the remains, with the help of government and NGOs. Let’s hear from the developer.
Lu Chao-ting
Land developer
The original design had a building at the front. But we couldn’t dig down and destroy the drainage system of the old city walls. So we shrunk the layout. That cost us 50 to 60 parking spaces and one building. We’ll be making NT$60 to NT$70 million less now. But if we find relics like these in the future, we would still like to preserve them too.
The Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs says the old city is the largest and best preserved urban landscape from the Qing Dynasty in Taiwan. It says the old city walls were destroyed in some areas during the Japanese colonial period, with the construction of the Gaonan Highway. The developer says he worked with a designer to preserve the remains of the city walls and their drainage system, and make them past of the landscaping, so local history could be incorporated into the building.
蓋樓挖到前城牆殘蹟 建商打造共存住宅保存
2022-09-30
高雄有建商在左營蓋大樓時在地底下挖到城牆石材，經過文化局現勘後，確定是300多年前珍貴的舊埕城牆殘蹟。建商因此更改建案、退縮建物，公私協力保存古蹟，也成了大樓相當特別的造景藝術。
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“(原本設計)前面原本有一棟，但因為不能挖到地下室去破壞這個水關，所以整個做退縮，實際也損失了大概，5、60個車位那包含還有一棟建築物，(損失)估計的時候大概在6、7千萬，但是事後如果再遇到相同古蹟的建物，還是希望都能好好的保存下下來”
高雄市文化局強調，左營舊城為國內目前仍存的清代城池中保存規模最大、最完整者，但此段殘蹟早在日治時期因開拓高楠公路而消失，此次的發現可以說是為左營舊城拚上一塊重要的拼圖。而建商進行保存並請來設計師，適度將水關及城牆殘蹟融入戶外景觀設計，成了古蹟與社區共融的良好示範。
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