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Ruin Academy (established 2010) is an independent cross-over architectural research center in the Urban Core area of Taipei City, Taiwan.〔(c laboratory: ruin academy ) – Designboom 2010〕 It is 'set to re-think the industrial city and the modern man in the box' through research and a series of workshops.〔(Ruin Academy in Taipei ) – +MOOD 2010〕 The Ruin Academy occupies an abandoned 5-story apartment building in central Taipei. All the interior walls of the building and all the windows are removed in order to grow bamboo and vegetables inside the house. The professors and students are sleeping and working in mahogany made ad hoc dormitories and have a public sauna in the 5th floor. All the building is penetrated with 6 inch holes in order to let “rain inside”.〔(Ruin Academy ) – Landezine 2010〕 ''The architectural control is in a process of giving up in order to let nature to step in. So far it is not giving up – it is too lazy. Architectural control will be given up. Modernism is lost and the industrial machine will become organic. This happens in Taipei and this is what we study. Ruin Academy is an organic machine.'' 〔(Ruin Academy in Taipei | Marco Casagrande ) – Arch-Times 2010〕 Ruin is viewed as a tipping point when a man-made object becomes part of nature.〔(Survival Architecture Workshop in Norway | Guoda Bardauskaitė & Suzanne van Niekerk ) – Art Pit 2012〕 == Research Topics == The research and design tasks move freely in-between architecture, urban design, environmental art and other disciplines of art and science within the general framework of built human environment.〔(Ruin Academy ) – Ouno 2010〕 Anarchic Grandmothers, Academic Squatting, Urban Acupuncture-these are some of the ideas behind the Ruin Academy.〔(More Ruins ) – Phyllis Richardson, Archetcetera 2011〕 The Academy workshops include: * Organic Acupuncture * * Spontaneous and often illegal urban farms and community gardens balancing the industrial Taipei and tuning the city towards the organic.〔(The Community Gardens of Taipei ) – P2P Foundation 2010〕 * River Urbanism * * A form of landscape urbanism aiming in natural river restoration in urban conditions and reconnection of the modern city and the river nature.〔(Taipei from the River ) – International Society of Biourbanism 2011〕 *Illegal Architecture * * Architecture that uses the Official City as a “growing platform and energy source, where to attach itself like a parasite and from where to leach the electricity and water... (Instant City's ) illegal urban farms or night markets is so widespread and deep rooted in the Taiwanese culture and cityscape that we could almost speak of another city on top of the “official” Taipei, a parallel city – or a para-city.” 〔(Illegal Architecture in Taipei ) – Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Architizer 2011〕 Casagrande adds, “many spontaneous and often illegal communities are growing that are more complex and fruitful than official development and official architecture – often blindly directed by economy and centralised politics. Anarchist grandmothers are cultivating illegal community gardens and urban farms everywhere around Taipei. They are breaking the city.” 〔(Academic Ruin ) Emma Tucker, The LIP, 2013〕 Local Knowledge is a theme penetrating through all the research elements and tying the Thirg Generation Taipei to the site-specific natural environment.〔(Ruin Academy Taiwan : Architecture Information ) – E-Architect 2010〕 Casagrande: ''Architects’ and designers’ position about organic knowledge is tricky. We are not the ones who carry this collective genetic memory on, but we are in a better position to interpret and negotiate with it, step by step, like a shaman getting answers from the organic side. This can easily go very wrong, when architect starts copyrighting fragments of local knowledge under his ego. I guess often it would be enough to create a platform of accidents for the organic knowledge to surface, start cooking, and finding its own forms and dynamics. Design is not necessarily needed in here, and design should not replace reality – while organic knowledge is close to reality, nature.'' 〔(Change from organic city ) – M. Casagrande, International Society of Biourbanism〕 The Ruin Academy received the ''World Architecture Community Award'' in 2011.〔(WA Awards ) – World Architecture 2011〕 The Academy is operated by the Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture, in cooperation with Finland-based Casagrande Laboratory.〔(Ruin Academy in Taipei, Architectural Research Centre ) – New Territories 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruin Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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