The documentary of conservation treatments of polychromy wooden objects of Shui Xian Temple in Chiayi─An observation of current conditions of conserving the polychromy wooden objects in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Lu,Cheng-Hui, 呂正暉
• Other Authors: Yeh,Nai-Chi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36102813430732128963

碩士 === 華梵大學 === 建築學系碩士班 === 99 === With the announcement and execution of the Cultural Heritage Conservation Act, the restoration for ancient architectures in Taiwan began to emphasize more on related research and investigation. However, the concepts and values on how to preserve and conserve are still ambiguous. Thus lots of precious ancient architectures built by famous craftsmen, were totally changed or reduced for its value after restoration. Take a restoration project, the conservation treatments of polychromy wooden objects of Shui Xian Temple in Chiayi County, for example. It was designed and restored by Tainan National University of the Arts while “professional construction management” was done by an an architect office with an engineering management approach against the restoration quality. When we look back on the process of the project, we gradually found that under the current restoration mechanism in Taiwan, it is hard to quantify the polychromy restoration, performed in the “scientific restoration approach”, into engineering quality management. Although the persons practiced polychromy restoration with their profession, the quality of its result has to face the challenge of the architecture's structure limit and pests. Part of the paper focuses on the expectation of the restoration result: how to practice the international restoration concept “authenticity” with coordination of the temple users ' ideas and habitual behaviors. In the research of the paper, it is discovered that most of the polychromy restoration cases in Taiwan were done by “restoration” or “reproduction” approach, which are categorized as “habitual approach”. And since the related regulations, for example, Cultural Heritage Conservation Act, are ambiguous, most of the polychromy restoration cases were done in “habitual approach”. The restoration result of Shui Xian Temple can be a reference option for future cases. The restoration exam mechanism and the research purpose for the project have not much in common on their directions and professions thus it is hard to have a common discussion. However, “Public Construction Quality Management Regulations” do not define polychromy restoration for ancient architectures in detail, hence the restoration purpose and quality request are not clear. Comparing the polychromy restoration cases in Taiwan and in other countries, they have the same target – to “restore” ancient architectures, while cases in Taiwan have something different: “lacking for authenticity” - same restoration styles and forms & focusing on the restoration of structure. The purpose for Tainan National University of the Arts to perform the restoration is “to preserve the works of Chen, Yu-Feng” and which result has to be examed by its “Authenticity” to see if Chen's works are preserved properly and completely. It tried to adopt the excellence of other countries' cases and meanwhile remain traditional Taiwanese culture values. It still requires time to verify if scientific conservation approach is appropriate in Taiwan for restoration against polychromy of ancient architectures. The problems and handling process during the professional construction management of the Shui Xian Temple project are valuable references to current polychromy restoration in Taiwan.