联合国正式将台湾列为“缺水国家”，人均雨水量仅为世界平均水平的1/6，每年3月至5月间都会出现缺水现象。由于其人口多，地形陡峭，导致水排入海洋，雨水分布不均匀，仅剩下20%的水可供消费，使水成为岛上重要而宝贵的资源。如果水资源不能得到很好的配置，相关的问题就会增加。

Taiwan is officially classified by the UN as a “water deficit country” with the rainwater amount per person at only 1/6 of the world average and water shortages usually appearing every year between March and May. Due to it’s high population, topography with it’s steep hills causing water to drain into the ocean and uneven concentrated rain distribution, only 20% of water is left for consumption making water an important and precious resource on the island. If the water resources could not be allocated well, the related problems will grow. 

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地震-台湾的一个主要问题是位于菲律宾海台西缘太平洋火环上的地震活动区。地质学家已经确认了该岛上的42条活动断层。地震大多发生在东海岸，造成的破坏很小，但岛屿下面的较小地震在历史上证明更具破坏性。从1901年到2000年，台湾发生了91次大地震，其中48次造成人员伤亡。最近的一次大地震是1999年9月21日发生的921级地震，造成2415人死亡，仅仅监测这些潜在灾害是不够的。许多大地震的人员伤亡都归咎于建筑标准差。台湾许多现代化的建筑物和设施都是从地震安全的角度来建造的，但需要自下而上地采用一种全新的战略，这可能有助于提高整个城市的抗震能力。

Earthquakes - A Major Issue in Taiwan Taiwan is in a seismically active zone, on the Pacific Ring of Fire at the western edge of the Philippine Sea Plate.Geologists have identified 42 active faults on the island.Earthquakes appear mostly on the east coast causing little damage but smaller quakes beneath the island itself have historically proven more destructive. Between 1901 and the year 2000 there were 91 major earthquakes in Taiwan, 48 of them resulting in loss of life. The most recent major earthquake was the 921 Earthquake, which has struck on September 21, 1999, and claimed 2,415 lives.Monitoring those potential disasters is not enough. Poor construction standards have been blamed for casualties in a number of major earthquakes. Many modern buildings and facilities in Taiwan are constructed with earthquake safety in mind but a whole new strategy applied from the bottom up which might help to improve the earthquake resistance of entire cities needs to arise. 

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为了达到“零碳”和“能源加”标准，并确保建筑物的安全，大量的技术设备正在被使用，它们的生产成本很高，有时无法持续。台中市文化中心建议建造一座建筑，通过它的性能收集资源，产生能量，并且这样做可以抵抗恶劣的环境条件。所有的限制因素，如过热和污染，都将以自然的方式与风和水作斗争。

To reach Zero Carbon and Energy Plus standards and secure the building's safety a lot of technological devices are being used.Their production is expensive and sometimes unsustainable.In the Taichung City Cultural Center we are proposing a building which through it’s performance gathers resources, produces energy and by doing this is resistant to hostile environmental conditions. All the limiting factors such as overheating and pollution would be combated in natural ways with wind and water.

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抗震救灾-通过集水防震，可以保护建筑物不受局部灾害的影响，其质量可以起到防震机制的作用。在封闭水箱中运动的波浪和水的重量被证明是地震力的抗衡，有助于调节建筑物结构的振动。柱板原始结构体系具有极小的对角线连接，高的剖面和梯田形式在地震位置表现最好，该设施可以起到抗灾作用。

Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake Resistance Through Gathering Water By gathering water the building could be protected from local disasters.It's mass would perform as  an earthquake damper defensive mechanism. The waves and  water weight in motion in a closed tank is proved to be a counterweight for seismic forces and helps to regulate the oscillation of the building’s structure.Together with a column-slab primitive structural system with minimized diagonal connections ,a tall profile and terraced form which performs best in seismic locations the facility could be disaster proof.

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资源保留-建筑作为一个水厂在建筑中的可持续性总是被插入到自上而下的方法，其中建筑物获得可持续的补丁，以实现能源生产。为了产生一个最佳的能量系统，设计需要更多的自下而上的方法，整个场地的地块面积可以而且应该用来采水，如果根本没有建筑物的话，地表的最大收益就会大得多，为了在tccc设计中尽可能地改善这一点，建筑物的覆盖率被最小化了。通过提升景观的一部分，整个建筑群都变得更加复杂了。是从地下挖掘中提炼出来的，它提高了保水能力，并提供了尽可能多的绿地。主广场、所有车道、人行道和一楼多层集水区都有可渗透的蓄水孔设计。

Resources Retention - Building as a Water Farm Sustainability in architecture is always inserted within a top-down approach, where the buildings receive sustainable patches to achieve energy production. In order to generate an optimal energized system, design needs to have a more bottom-up approach.The whole site plot area may and should be used to harvest water.The best gain of the surface is far larger if there would be no building at all.To improve this as much as possible in the TCCC design the building coverage ratio is minimized.By lifting part of the landscape the whole complex is refined from underground excavation what enhances water retention and provides as much green spaces as possible. The main plaza ,all driveways and walkways and ground floor area with a multi-layer gathering system have a permeable porous design for storing water.

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Water Terraces - A New Building Typology The building would be built as a compilation of reinforced concrete terraced pools forming a rainwater collection system, a water collectors chain having their beginning on a lifted plaza.The ground floor area would be free and open which would maximized the water gain as possible.The plaza would feature a series of openings which would be intakes for descending water towards the ground floor layers.

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实用的无形形态概念-以水的运动为主要灵感，外观设计为美观实用，注重集水和提高水质。形成一系列雕塑流体形式，通过将水引导到梯田中，鼓励水的自然运动。它的作用是在建筑物上部形成一套大排水沟，在建筑物下边的池塘中收集径流，这些雨水将持续不断地流动，这就需要保持良好的环境，并灌溉小型植物。这一系列螺旋状的表面修饰将形成一条鼓励水以自然方式运动的途径。水的运动取决于它的速度和下落方式，在需要水的地方会产生不同的环境和大气。例如，在水流较慢的地方，快速水流会更响亮，也不合适。从每一层，水将被储存和转移到主要的核心，在那里，它将被过滤在水箱中。当有太多的水被一个单一的水池所捕获时，额外的径流水就会溢出并流到下一个梯田或主要的穿孔广场，把它引到底层。

Pragmatic Formless form Concept - The Movement of Water as the Main Inspiration The facade is designed to be aesthetically appealing yet practical putting a strong focus on water gathering and improvement of it’s quality.Consisting of a series of sculptural fluid forms , which encourage the natural movement of water by channeling it into terraces, it would act as a set of big rain gutters in the upper part and ponds in the down part of the building collecting water runoff which would be in continuous move.Thanks to that a hygenic ambient would be kept and small plants would be irrigated. This series of spiraling surface modifications would form a path encouraging the water to act in a natural way .The movement of water depending on it’s speed and way of falling could create different ambients and atmospheres in places where it would be required.Fast streams would be louder and not appropriate in reading areas where a slower flow of water would be used for example. From every level the water would be stored and transferred to the main core where it would be filtered in the water tanks. When there is too much water to be captured by a single pool the extra runoff water would spill out and cascade down to the next terrace or to the main perforated plaza leading it to the ground floor.

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我们希望建筑物的功能以水为中心。建筑物被组织成一系列的公共空间，而不是围绕一个单一的功能。这种形式提供了一个更动态的平面图和垂直的组织。水和人的流动是密切相关的。水产生的功能像一个座位区域或所需的空气。

Array of Activities + Streamlined Circulation We want the functions of our building to live around water.The buildings are organized as an array of public spaces rather then around a single function.This form provides a more dynamic floor plan and vertical organization.Water and people flow are closely related.Water generates functions like a seating area or desired atmospheres.

建筑物的屋顶和露台上将收集到水循环/收集/冷却雨水。阅读、展览和档案馆的书库和珍贵的艺术作品将从水流中分离出来，以创造和保持理想的小气候。立面自来水，作为冷却装置，在特殊的地方带来扩散的日光。它的特点是水可以直接送到核心水箱过滤和循环利用。屋顶上的水会排入减震器储罐中，这也会起到过滤和储存装置的作用。额外的水径流将下降到广场，然后通过开口到底层的保留层。过滤后会跑到地下的集水罐，在台风季节还会用水力将城市浮水中的污垢排出。同时，这将不会影响下游供水和它的能力。再循环储存的水将用于厕所和消防喷头。

Water Circulation / Gathering / Cooling Rainwater would be captured on the roof and terraces of the buildings. Reading,exhibition and archive areas with it’s book stacks and precious works of art would be  divided with the facade from the water flow allowing to create and maintain a desired microclimate. Facade running water which would act as a cooling device and bring diffused daylight in special places.It would feature levels where water would be sent directly to the core tanks to be filtered and recycled. The rooftop water would drain into the damper tanks which would also perform as a filtering and storing device. Extra water runoff would fall on to the plaza and then through openings on to the ground floor retention layers. Filtered would run to the water collecting tanks in the underground level which would also use hydraulic power to drive out the dirt from the city floating water during the typhoon season. At the same time this will not affect the downstream water supply and it’s capacity. Recycled stored water would be used in toilets and in fire sprinklers.

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水阻尼器作为一种公共吸引器，文化中心顶部的水箱在视觉上暴露出来，以加强其在地震中保护建筑物的展示装置的作用，成为公众和游客的一个吸引点。

Water Damper Tank as a Public Attractor The water tanks on the top of the Cultural Center are visually exposed in order to strengthen their role as a show case device which would protect buildings during earthquakes becoming an attraction point for the public and tourists.

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建筑师：KAMJZ建筑师地点：台中，台湾客户：台中市项目负责人：Maciej Jakub Zawadzki合伙人负责：Marek Kuryłowicz协作：Buro Happold首席设计顾问：Ewa Kuryłowicz教授团队：BartoszŚWiniarski，MichałPolak，Łukasz Wenclewski，Bogusz Ostrski，Zuzanna Góra，Magdalena Mulzuark大小：63，000平方米

Architects: KAMJZ Architects Location: Taichung, Taiwan Client: Taichung City Project Leader: Maciej Jakub Zawadzki Partner in Charge: Marek Kuryłowicz Collaboration: Buro Happold Chief Design Consultant: Prof. Ewa Kuryłowicz Team: Bartosz Świniarski, Michał Polak, Łukasz Wenclewski, Bogusz Ostalski, Zuzanna Góra, Magdalena Mularzuk Size: 63,000 sqm