水的意志：在物質、內在、場所之後

Abstract

本論文旨在探究水與人之間存在的某種聯繫，藉由文化、物質、精神、場所等層面作為切片，和對水的思考與觀察，並以筆者在碩士班期間完成的建築設計作品為一種媒介，讓人得以感知並揭示水所承載的文化與本質。 論文首先架構起東西方文化對水的態度，從歷史出發，介紹了建築與水的關係與發展脈絡，接下來的探討皆會架構在東西方的水文化意蘊之下；第一章從水的物質性談起，藉由了解物質的客觀存在以及知識技術如何影響人的認知，擴展到在設計過程中探討人的定位，以及水的存在是否有超越形態的變化和應用；第二章是水的內在性，討論水從充滿紀念性的特質到反映生活日常當中的轉變，並認為現今的公共建築應該同時具備紀念與日常的特性，方能成功地表達時代的意志。然而在此除了文化象徵，探討更多的是水和人們的情感與記憶是如何有效地被連結並凝聚成力量；第三章是場所的關係性，而我定義這樣的關係為衍生。在衍生的觀念下，場所之間是動態的，而水是串連一切的存在，層面包含了產業、生態、歷史等等，透過定義出個體場所與整體間的關係，去探究能夠回應當代議題的建構場所之方法。 本文重點不在於歸納古今水元素的設計手法，而是著重於在不同的文化意涵下，水與思考、感知的關係，甚至透過物質性、內在性與場所性的論述，發現這些性質更進一步的改變，藉此獲得超越水本身的價值觀，來回應當代課題。

The thesis is focus on the intangible link between water and human, and trying to explore it from different perspectives as culture, matter, immanence and spirit of place. The design works are like a medium, letting people can perceive and reveal the will of water. First of all, I study the history and the context of water, and frame the different values between eastern and western culture. Under this context, I consider about the matter of water in chapter one, and figuring out how technology change human’s cognition; Chapter two is talking about the immanence of water, and trying to establish a way to make a public space can own monumentality and daily phenomenon at the same time, showing the spirit of the place successfully. In chapter three, I focus on how several places connected by water, thus, I redefine the meaning of water to places in terms of historical memory, industry, ecology and so on, to make it become a power for urban regeneration. The point of the thesis is bringing up the relationship between human, architecture and water rather than concluding the form design of water element. So that we can truly approach the essence of water, and get the bigger vision and better attitude to face the contemporary issues.