淡江大學建築系2006年國際設計工作營
時間：2006.02.23∼2006.02.27
地點：淡江大學建築系
基地： 淡水休閒農場(竹圍捷運站附近)
城市「禪」園 CityZen Garden
by Macro Casagrande
計劃中的競圖與工作營主要的想法是反省現代化的城市，從一個傳統日本「禪園」（Zen garden）的觀點。「禪園」是一座調和環境視覺的平台，連結人造的自然使它成為自然的一部份，並成為宇宙的一個元素。
「禪園」反映著周圍的環境，將雄偉的山巒縮小成為石頭，將大海的波動縮影為細石的環狀波紋。「禪園」的元素與週圍環境中的自然的連接與互動將引發無限的沉思。「禪園」中的沉思將產生張力、平衡、與方向，幫助觀賞者脫離真實，使得心靈到達更高的層次。
「禪園」最不可思議之處就是對於大自然的控制有如一連串的意外。五百年來「禪園」中各個元素的位置一點兒都沒有改變，除了園中樹木的生長與石頭上漲出來的青苔。人為的對於環境中最小元素的控制達到了極致。
我們想要控制百萬人的城市，但是我們卻輕易的忘記了自然。我們所創造出來的環境是人為的自然，但是已經無法再是原生自然的一部份。
花園是永恆之窗。（Garden is a window of eternity.）
「禪園」嘗試在自然的元素中創造出一種和諧，人造的自然與城市的氛圍並未考慮到時間的因素，而時間是一個重要的本質。為了矯正這一點，現代城市發明了人造的時間與壓力。但是當時間的壓力與金錢的遊戲面臨挫敗，於是乎城市就破產了。
城市是有機的混合物。（City must be a compost.）
在大自然中，死亡同時是一個新生的開始。樹木開始生長時是脆弱柔軟的，但是樹木變得乾與硬的時候，就是它死亡的時候。堅硬與力量是死亡的伴侶。脆弱與柔軟代表著新生。當嬰兒出生時，脆弱但是靈活的，但是人行將就木時，是頑固並且感覺遲鈍的。因為頑固是無法戰勝任何事情的。
我們邀請學生思考「禪園」的同時，並思考我們的城市。我們希望學生創造出新的花園根據「禪園」的想法，以幫助我們達到另一層次「後城市」的冥想。慢城市（city of slowness）、都市針灸（urbanism of acupuncture）、與新都市游牧族（new urban nomad）將呈現在這有機的花園中。
這是一件創造者的傑作。我們應該很敏感的將這恩賜在未來反映給其他所有的人們。「禪園」的創造與思考，可以讓我們反思「後工業化城市」（post industrial city）該如何發展？如何邁向永續生態的方向？以及建築師與都市計劃師所應該扮演的角色。我們期待看到學生關於這方面的討論，我們期待對於「新禪園」的不同詮釋，這些詮釋可以來自於不同的背景－建築、都市計劃、景觀建築、環境規劃、以及各種可能的生態再生計劃。
1. 工作營
每一小組將設計與構築一座「後工業的再生」（post industrial rehabilitation）花園。每一座花園常5 公尺，寬2.5公尺，相當於一個停車位的大小。
城市禪園，將會是一種新型態的藝術，新的都市烏托邦。
2. 國際工作營老師
Hakan Rasmussen
建築師 / 3RW Architects，挪威。
柏根建築學院（Bergen School of Architecture）教授。
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參與學生們分為18組，1∼9組由 Hakan Rasmussen 負責帶領。
Hakan Rasmussen 向1∼9組解釋題目：
Marco Casagrande 向他帶領10~18組的學生解釋題目：
基地位置圖(Marco Casagrande 是橘色框選的部分，可能有點誇大，Hakan 的則是在螢光綠的範圍內)
工作基地現場就在竹圍捷運站附近，位於捷運軌道和淡水河之間
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CityZen Garden
TAMKANG INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 2006
The proposed competition and workshop is based on the theory of viewing the modern cities through the traditional Japanese art of Zen gardens. The Zen garden is a visual platform of environmental meditation linking the human nature as part of nature and furthermore to more cosmic entities.
On one hand one can see the Zen garden as a reflection of the surrounding environment scaling down the mountains into its stones or the movement of the ocean into the racking pattern of the gravel. Meditation can build connections and dynamics between the elements of the Zen garden and its surrounding nature. Meditation can also reveal tensions, balances and directions between the Zen garden elements themselves and help the viewer to erase the realities around the garden letting the mind travel in this highly controlled environment.
The paradox of the Zen garden is in its highly controlled nature as a platform of accident. It may be, that the form of the garden has remained the same for 500 years having the every element articulated into their exact position – the racking of the sand or gravel, the pattern of the growing or merely being of the tree, the color of the moss around the stone…nothing has changed but still one has to admit that the slightest breeze of the wind might turn one piece of the sand or fall down a leaf from the tree and the same gardening work has to be started again. This ultimate human control celebrates the superiority of the smallest of the environmental changes.
We try to control cities with millions of people. And we easily forget the nature. We are capable of creating surroundings where human nature is no longer part of nature.
Garden is a window of eternity.
If a Zen garden is trying to build a harmony between the natural elements, the human nature and the universe the city does not seem to have the time. And the time is in essence. To justify its being the modern city has created the artificial time and invented stress. After stressing for time and money death has become a defeat - a bankruptcy.
City must be a compost.
In nature death is the beginning of a new life. When a tree is growing, it is tender and pliant, but when it is dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death’s companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness and being. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible, when he dies he is hard and insensitive. Because what has hardened will never win.
I ask the invited students to think about the Zen garden and I ask them to think about the city. I ask them to create a new Zen garden for the city, the CityZen Garden to help us to reach a level of post-urban meditation. The city of slowness, the urbanism of acupuncture, the new urban nomad – in a compost, as a garden.
This is a task of a creator. One has to be sensitive enough to look for the horizon and gifted enough to present the reflections of the future for the rest of the people. The thinking and creations of the CityZen Gardens can raise up questions of the urban development of the post industrial city, questions of taking the needed steps towards ecologically sustainable directions and questions about the role of an urban planner or architect in this development. I want to see this discussion to be handed over to the students and I want to see the different interpretations of the CityZen Gardens coming from the different disciplines or urban planning, architecture, landscape anrchitecture and environmental planning and landing down to a free form of ecological rehabilitation.
1.THE WORKSHOP
Each group will design and build an architectonic garden for post industrial rehabilitation. Each garden will measure in plan 2, 5 x 5 meters equaling to one car parking space.
The CityZen Garden can be a new form of art, a new urban utopia. Or larger.
2.TUTORS
I propose two architects from abroad to participate the CityZen Garden workshop as jury members of the competition and workshop leaders together with me:
Hakan Rasmussen
Architect / 3R-W Architects, Norway
Teacher / Bergen School of Architecture
