如果沒有消波塊，我們是否能距離海，更近？
台灣四面環海，卻有一半的海岸是充滿消波塊的人造海岸。消波塊數量如此龐大是源自於人類對海岸過度開發，導致沙灘侵蝕，為了避免此現象因此放置消波塊來抑制侵蝕發生。結果就是整條海岸線的漂砂平衡就此崩潰，沙灘幾乎消失，海岸只剩消波塊。而「茄萣」便是其中一處。
海塑造了沙洲，人們棲居其上，信仰隨之而生；而信仰使人更靠近海，茄萣因而誕生。這時人們棲居於沙洲之上，但在經歷經濟起飛時期的環境破壞、與當代科學價值對於自然的漠視後，在茄萣，海與人的棲居關係驟然消逝。
而科技發展迅速的當代，想回到過去的棲居型態顯然不切實際，我們該如何在這個時代棲居呢？
本案試圖藉由三塊基地的設計，來回應棲居於自然的三種行為：即產業、信仰、居住。這三點皆與自然密切相關，所以昔日的茄萣人才能棲居於自然中；也因為這三點脫離了自然人類才，會有當今的困境。
希冀藉由建築重構人們心中對海與自然所抱持的看法與價值觀，讓人們重新回到自然中；如同過去先民一般，以自己的身體棲居於海旁、於沙洲上。
If there were no wave-breaking blocks, could we be closer to the sea?
Taiwan is surrounded by the sea, but half of its coastline is artificial coastline filled with wave-breaking blocks. The reason why there are so many wave-breaking blocks is that humans have over-exploited the coast, leading to beach erosion. In order to avoid this phenomenon, wave-breaking blocks are placed to suppress erosion. The result is that the balance of drifting sand along the entire coastline collapses, the beach almost disappears, and only wave-breaking blocks remain on the coast. And “Qia Ding” is one of them.
The sea shaped the sandbars, people lived on them, and faith was born; faith brought people closer to the sea, and thus the eggplant was born. At that time, people lived on the sandbars, but after experiencing environmental destruction during the economic takeoff period and the disregard of contemporary scientific values for nature, the living relationship between the sea and humans suddenly disappeared in Qieding.
In today’s rapidly developing technological world, it is obviously unrealistic to return to the living patterns of the past. How should we live in this era?
This project attempts to respond to three behaviors of living in nature through the design of three bases: industry, belief, and residence. These three points are all closely related to nature, so the people of Qieding in the past could live in nature; it is also because of these three points that humans are separated from nature and are in the predicament they are in today.
We hope to reconstruct people’s views and values about the sea and nature through architecture, so that people can return to nature; just like our ancestors in the past, living by the sea and on the sandbanks with their own bodies.
