台北當代藝術館 官方網站 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

數位設計經過了數十年的發展，一般民眾或許認為它仍在初步發展階段，事實是，這個新科技已參與介入了許多關鍵工業的發展；目前，數位設計的操作方法與組構技術已越來越完整、順暢和可行。在建築領域中，它已開始影響建築的設計與建造過程，逐步將建築藝術推向更多元的發展，解決問題的層次也相對提高許多。如同20世紀初鋼鐵與混凝土的發明徹底改變人類建築文化，目前正在發生的數位化現象，除了對於建築設計的發想與執行也有決定性的影響，也將導致民眾對「建築」的認知和概念徹底改變。因為，數位設計所涉及的不單單只是科技工業，而是所有透過科技將直覺感受加以表現傳達的藝術與美學。 瑞士聯邦理工學院建築系電腦輔助建築設計研究室(ETH CAAD)，是領先全球電腦輔助設計與數位組構的學術機構之一；台灣交通大學建築研究所(NCTU IAR)則是亞洲少數此類機構的代表，這兩個單位於2012年春天共同舉辦的「茶坊 2.0」國際工作營，旨在探索將電腦化設計與數位創作融入建築設計教學的新維度。工作營命名為「茶坊 2.0」，是為了表達衍序建築超越科技的追求，兼顧了對地方文化傳統、時間性與前衛性的重視與尊重，同時也藉此探尋數位設計的新可能。 本次展覽，主要展出兩所學院之設計團隊於工作營中，運用數位科技的優勢而各自實踐完成的3組實驗性「茶坊」作品。同時搭配了各團隊自行研發的工藝創作及過程記錄影片。透過這個有別於傳統的數位設計建築展，期望引領民眾去關注和感受全球建築文化正逐步衍化蛻變的這個歷史時刻和時代潮流。 In the past few decades,Digital Designhas madesignificant evolvement, although people may claim it is still in its infancy. The expanded array of digital design methods and fabrication technologies has become more integrated, fluent and available. In many ways, digital technologiesare right now on the brink of changing the process of design and the construction in architecture, bringing in much further degrees of dimension and newer level of resolution. What is currently going on will, so is steel and concrete have changed the 20th century design fundamentally, change how design is conceived andprocessed, not to mention how people will come to understand architecture. Moreover, all these evolvements are not simply technology-based issues, but more becoming the issue of intuitive sensitivity achieved through technology. ETH CAAD, one of few institutions which lead the world in computational design and digital fabrication, and NCTU IAR, also one of few institutes pioneering the field in Asia, has held a joint workshop “Teahouse 2.0” in the Spring of 2012, which explore a new threshold of computational design and digital fabrication in the realm of education. The workshop is themed as “Teahouse 2.0” as interest and respect on something beyond technology, such as local tradition, temporality, and avant-garde-ness, also as seeking new possibility of digitally aided design. This exhibition shows the result of the workshop – 3 teams from NCTU IAR and ETH CAAD designed and built 3 experimental “Teahouses” taking advantage of digital technologies – and recent project of educational activities of each school. Through examples of process and result of actual materialization of digitally designed artifacts, visitor shall be able to sense what is really happening in, and fundamentally changing the world of architectural design.