地鐵震動 恐損科隆大教堂

【中央社╱柏林特稿】
2013.01.13 12:40 pm

德國著名的景點地標科隆教堂最近不時會震動，因為科隆市新啟用的地下鐵路經過附近。聯合國教育、科學、文化組織（UNESCO）表示，將會了解名列世界遺產的教堂建築是否受損。

科隆教堂（Koelner Dom）是歐洲最具代表性的哥特式建築之一。高聳入雲的鐘樓、尖形拱門和肋狀拱頂，還有以宗教故事為主題的嵌花玻璃窗，吸引來自全球的觀光客。

UNESCO在1996年將科隆教堂列入世界遺產。因為鄰近地區的1項摩天大樓興建計畫可能損害到教堂建築，UNESCO在2004年將它列入「陷入險境的世界遺產」（World Heritage in Danger）名單。兩年後，摩天大樓興建計畫取消，科隆教堂才從名單除名。

去年12月啟用的南北向地下鐵，工程期間就事故不斷。幾年前挖掘地下隧道時就造成科隆市古蹟的嚴重損毀，除了2004年在科隆市南邊的1所老教堂塔尖傾斜，2009年3月當地的檔案文件中心建築崩塌，造成兩人死亡及無數珍貴歷史文件的損壞。

地鐵才剛啟用，科隆教堂就受到影響。教堂網站公布地下鐵造成震動的問題，並且表示已經與市政府和都會交通主管單位討論教堂建築的安全風險。科隆教堂是德國最著名景點地標之一，因此市政府也會重視相關問題。

這座從13世紀中葉開始興建，到了1880年才完工的教堂，在第二次世界大戰後期也遭到戰火的摧殘。戰後進行修復工程，教堂關閉多年，直到1956年才開放。由於戰火和現代都會的空氣汙染對建築物造成的損害嚴重，教堂終年都在進行修復工程。

157.3公尺高的科隆教堂是世界上第三高的教堂，大約相當於現代建築45層樓高。科隆觀光旅遊機構指出，教堂是萊因河地區最吸睛的景點，平均每天到此參觀和拍照留念的觀光客多達兩萬人。自認腳力不錯的遊客可以走上509級石階到鐘樓頂眺望，流經科隆的萊因河及週邊景觀可一覽無遺。

related info:

http://www.koelner-dom.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral

3. SALVATION

3. SALVATION
The 1976 movie “taxi driver” talks about a mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran working as a nighttime taxi driver who tries to murder the politician due to his disappointment and anger about the society but ends up with saving a teenage prostitute in the end. Life is suffering because we cannot always get what we want. Life is cruel because still we keep chasing what doesn’t belong to us. Then getting angry, or making terrible mistakes. But it does not have to end up like this. Handle the unsatisfied anger, the energy of desire and channel it to somewhere needed of your help.

3. 救贖
1976年電影「計程車司機」(馬丁史柯西斯執導，勞勃狄尼洛主演，不確定台譯電影名稱)講述一位心理狀態不穩的越戰老兵以開晚間計程車維生，由於對社會的失望與憤怒，試圖謀殺一位政治人物，但最後以拯救了一位雛妓結尾。生命是痛苦的，因為我們總無法得到我們想要的。生命是殘酷的，因為我們依舊持續追逐不屬於我們的東西。接著我們憤怒，犯下可怕的錯誤。但它不一定要以此做終。處理未被滿足的憤怒，亦即慾望的能量，導引到某個或許需要你援助的角落。


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/

2. EVERY CITY IS THE GOTHAM CITY

2. EVERY CITY IS THE GOTHAM CITY
We all live in a sick society and are all connected. Killing is just a symptom of our serious illness and there are many other homogeneous disorders embedded in our lives on various layers. Directly or indirectly we create the killer’s stage and he echoed back his murder to the public. The police brings the murderer into justice is merely a cut-out of the whole thing. In the movie, there is a line like “everyone could be batman…”signifying that it’s everyone’s responsibility in Gotham and they all can be “the batman” serving their duties. Expanding the idea, every city is another Gotham for its own corrupted soul. Gotham is the reflection of our own environment.

2. 每一座都市都是高譚市
我們都居住在一個病態的社會並連結一起。殺人只是我們病入膏肓疾病的表徵，其他還有更多同源異種的失序埋藏在我們生命不同的層級裡。直接地或間接地我們創造了殺人者的舞台，而他以殺人回應給大家。警方將殺人犯繩之以法僅僅只是整件事的一小塊切割。電影中，有句台詞說著「每人皆是蝙蝠俠…」象徵高譚市裡每人的責任，每人都可以是蝙蝠俠執行他們的勤務。擴大其意，每座城市墮落的靈魂都是另一座高譚市，高譚市是我們生活環境的鏡射。

Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?

d3 space org

d3 space org

有關自然系統的建築競圖

【轉載】THE CITY 2.0 – EVOLVED (NOT MADE) BY ECOLOGICAL HUMANS

THE CITY 2.0 – EVOLVED (NOT MADE) BY ECOLOGICAL HUMANS

This Live Conversation with TED Fellow Rachel Armstrong will open on February 8th, 2012 at 1pm EST, 6pm UK time.
Join the conversation as Rachel discusses her view on ecological humans and city 2.0.

We are not machines but Ecological Humans. We depend on our networks for survival, like an oak tree in the forest, being made up of highly interacting and interdependent systems. For example, eating is not simply consuming ‘fuel’ to feed our body-machine but is a mutual relationship shared between our gut bacteria, our food and our bodies (which, in turn, are highly interconnected assemblages of specialised tissues). The way that we see ourselves influences the way that we operate through the world in all aspects of our lives - from health, to business and even space exploration!

Ecological Humans, imagine the City 2.0 as being grown from the bottom-up by its communities. It is underpinned by highly interacting and interdependent networks, which use dynamic fabrics that behave in life-like ways. These buildings can be described as Living Architecture that are capable of responding to the changes in our dynamic cities as only real ecologies can.

Questions:

Will The City 2.0 be qualitatively different to modern cities? Or pragmatically, can the transition only be made as a series of incremental changes? What can we do to facilitate this transition?

What does being an Ecological Human mean to me? Can it help me find new or more effective ways of working?

Can we rely on biology to provide all the answers when it comes to sustainable building solutions? Is life a technology - and should we exploit it in the pursuit of more sustainable ways of building?

fution evolution

在生物學裡有一種叫「融合演化」，我們身體裡的粒線體或植物裡的葉綠素，其實擁有與我們截然不同相異甚遠的DNA，這是在遠古時期微生物間，不同生物體共生後合併一起演化，非獨立生物借基因突變慢慢演化的過程，很奇特是吧!?

這期間看到新聞若干，在在顯示生物數十億的演化的確能應用端視我們當下的生活。

華廈中庭9座墳 住戶尊重「先來的」

【聯合報╱記者鄭惠仁／台南報導】 2011.11.22 02:16 am

台南市東區曼哈頓住宅大樓庭院內有九座墳墓，十二年來兩百多戶人家見怪不怪，住戶裡有醫師、律師、教授，小孩子拿博士、考上第一志願的人不少，住戶笑說「福地福人居」，與墓地同處，風水很不錯，住得很平安。 曼哈頓大樓附近早期有許多墳墓，廿多前都市計畫變更為住宅區，但墳墓遷移出現糾紛，有十一座墳墓未遷，形成大樓圍著墳墓興建情形。 大樓剛蓋好時，許多住戶希望墳墓趕快遷移，但一拖十多年，大家發現住得很平安，對庭院的墳墓已見怪不怪。 住戶竺之威住在一樓，從臥室窗戶看出去有兩座墳墓，「他們先來，我們後到，應該尊重先到的。」竺之威說，有座墳墓是清朝時期，應該有二、三百年，這幾年沒看到有後代來掃墓。 墳墓散在庭院內，起先沒有美化及掩飾，後來建設公司做庭園造景，將部分墳墓藏在假山中，另有墳墓被樹木遮住，走進庭園，若不仔細看，不容易發現有墳墓。 「很有趣吧！」住戶陳俊堯表示，這景象應是世界奇觀，大樓裡的住戶許多是白領階級，大家都住得很快樂也很安心。每座墳墓都整理得很乾淨，若死者地下有知，也應會高興，每年中元節管理委員會舉辦法會，「子孫那捨得遷移？」 竺之威說，有來買房子的人對大樓庭院裡有墳墓很忌諱，下了訂金，發現有墳墓，取消合約不買了；也有人利用「墳墓」殺價，希望房價降低些。 最有趣的是清明節，竺之威說，大樓住戶都出門掃墓，卻有外地人到大樓內掃墓，住在大樓裡就可看到掃墓畫面。 住戶們說，這麼多年大家都習慣了，已經沒有人提遷墓的事，因為大家都住得很平安，子女考上第一志願、明星高中的人多，風水很不錯！

陸婦腹部腫瘤 竟是44年前孿生兄弟

2011-11-23 新聞速報 【中廣新聞／中廣新聞】

住在大陸張家界市的一名今年四十四歲的婦女，因腹部不適就醫檢查，結果發現是一個5.3公斤的畸胎瘤，而這個畸胎並不是當事人本身所懷胎體，而是她在母親懷胎時孿生兄弟的胎體進入她的腹腔所致。 這名婦女原本診察是一個腫瘤，在進行剖腹手術時，醫護人員在切開腫瘤壁囊之後，裏面的情況使現場的所有醫務人員都嚇呆了。因為看到的是一個發育基本成型的死胎，這個死胎除了腦袋沒有發育之外，手、腳、身體軀幹、甚至是生殖器都發育成型了。從生殖器可辨別出死胎是一名男性。 醫生解釋說，這個病叫做「寄生胎畸胎瘤」，腫瘤的形成是患者和她的兄弟在母體內胎兒發育的過程中，另一胚胎也就是患者兄弟的胚胎進入患者腹腔所致。換句話說，患者腹腔內的死胎是她雙胞胎兄弟的胎體。

ideas about what living conditions we are dealing with

兩部與關於在當下人類文明所處情境，與在其中對應的談話。第一部關於不可預期性於我們生活中。第二部有關idea的交換，加深創作者對於創意的見解。都是在這個我們所生活的複雜環境裡所需要的觀念，並進一步待我們去探索更多未知的事物。

flowing rain trace as an adjustable formation

i took a bus the other day. it was raining and freezing in taipei. i looked outside through the window to see the cityscape. to some degree, a bus window is an excellent observing tool to experience the city life and culture. due to the rain fall and the uneven bus roof, so there came a continuing little "river" flowing vertically passing on the window surface. i am so attractive to this tiny urban spectacle, more charming than the taipei 101 fire work at the new year eve, that i was suddenly isolated from the other city events and focused on the changeable water trace i was witnessing. what is more graceful and astonishing is the story the rain and bus scriped together, sharing the same key structure to the generation of animated forms, vivid forms, or the forms with life. from an embryo in a womb to the landscape of earth, from the baking bread in the oven to the rushing stream of the boiled water demostrates the process of form making and its moveable nature in form. i have to say it is a tiny opening ocasionally happening in daily life, but also a deep insight that sees through the apprearance of the enormous structure that functions steadily in the universe.

【轉貼】Google研發自動駕駛車 反應比人靈敏 ； Google tests cars that drive themselves

The cars have done thousands of miles, Google says


Nobody spotted the Google car crossing the Golden Gate Bridge


【聯合報╱編譯組／綜合報導】 2010.10.11 04:27 am


網路巨擘Google最近在加州對他們研發的自動駕駛車進行試車，它以豐田的Prius油電車改裝而成，駕駛座有人，但不開車，車頂的漏斗狀圓筒，也是汽車的「眼睛」十分吸睛，不過，Google擅自在加州進行自動駕駛試車，更讓道路安全專家側目，當局正調查是否違法。

Google正祕密研發自動駕駛汽車，它利用人工智慧軟體感應汽車的周遭環境，再模仿人類，作出一連串的駕駛決定。Google有七輛車同時試車。每車的駕駛座有一人，於車子出差錯時隨時接手，後座有一技師，負責監控導航系統。根據紀錄，自動汽車可完全無人為干預狀況下行駛一千六百公里，測試過程總行駛里程已超過二十三萬公里，僅偶爾須人為介入。

七部原型車目前僅有一次車禍紀錄，而且並非自動車本身的問題，而是停在紅綠燈前被後面的車輛追撞。

工程師表示，自動駕駛系統反應比人類靈敏，擁有三百六十度全方位感應，且不受分心、打瞌睡或酒精、藥物影響，自動駕駛汽車一旦上路，工程師相信，車禍死亡人數可望減半。

Google堅稱他們上路前，已問過律師，並無違法問題，且Google的自動駕駛汽車不會危及其他駕駛。該公司強調，研發自動駕駛汽車即是為減少車禍發生，且他們試車時，均有人在車上。


Engineers at Google have tested a self-driving car on the streets of California, the company has announced.

The cars use video cameras mounted on the roof, radar sensors and a laser range finder to "see" other traffic, software engineer Sebastian Thrun said.

They remain manned at all times by a trained driver ready to take control as well as by a software expert.

Google hopes the cars can eventually help reduce road traffic and cut the number of accidents.

In a posting on the company's official blog, Mr Thrun said the self-driven cars had so far covered 140,000 miles on the road.

They have crossed San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate bridge, negotiated the city's famous sloping streets, driven between Google offices, and made it around Lake Tahoe in one piece.


'Exciting future'

Engineers told the New York Times that the forays onto the highways have been largely incident-free, apart from one bump when the car was reportedly hit from behind at a traffic light.

In his Google blog post, Mr Thrun - professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University - insisted that safety was the "first priority" in the project.

Routes are pre-planned, mapped first by real drivers, and local police are briefed in advance, he says.

But he pointed to figures from the World Health Organization which show that more than 1.2 million people are killed each year on the roads, and said that number could and should be reduced.

"We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half.


"While this project is very much in the experimental stage, it provides a glimpse of what transportation might look like in the future thanks to advanced computer science. And that future is very exciting," he added.

Google has rapidly branched out from its previous core business of search in recent years.

The company already has significant interests in location services through its Google Maps and Google Street View offerings.

da issue9 out on shelves 夯9上架

夯第九期上架。主題是紙上建築。有收錄之前參加第一屆先進建築競圖獲得佳作的作品。urban rhizome 都市地下莖。是有關環保的集合住宅。

Flâneur

"Flâneur"在法文原指流浪漢、街道晃蕩之意。波特萊爾Charles Baudelaire開發其意為“在街頭行走以觀察體驗都市生活”的意思。其背景是在19世紀工業革命下，新式蒸氣發動機、紡織機、火車等各式工具以及金融革命推波助瀾下，從而襲捲而來創造的新型大都會、新型生活型態所引發的思考。這也引發其後許多關於都市的研究與想法：日常生活、由下而上等等。