第一次踏入中坑小学,一眼看到校园当中空地四个角落上四栋高耸的苦楝树,沿着四片浓绿的树荫,依序像道具般排列着座椅、司令台、球架、秋千,不太宽的跑道就绕着这四棵树的外围,围成了一个小操场,再往外一圈是原有校舍与教室,然后是四周的果园;再来是槟榔树和远山,这四棵苦楝树所界定出的操场,清晰地定义了基地的空间性格与校园的地点感。这是台中县和平乡,在由东势往大雪山中途的一个山区小学,有八十几名学生,村落里以客家人为主。之后几次到学校去,我们踱步在绕着操场的四棵大树之间,想着教室的位置、音乐教室旁边树下的表演台、图书馆窗外下午的阳光,想象着未来的校舍绕着四棵大树发展出的四个场景和四个叙事,想起北宋画家郭熙的《林泉高致》里说的四种山水画的情境:可行、可观、可游、可居。 The first time into the pit primary school, one at a glance to see the campus on the four corners of the four towering neem tree, along the four dark green shade, followed by the props arranged in order seats, commando, ball A swing, a not too wide runway around the perimeter of these four trees, surrounded by a small playground, and then outside the original school buildings and classrooms, and then surrounded by orchards; then Areca and distant mountains The playgrounds defined by the four neem trees clearly define the spatial character of the base and the sense of place on the campus. This is a peaceful primary school in Taichung County. From a mountain elementary school to the middle of the Great Snow Mountain from the east, there are more than 80 students, mainly Hakka people in the village. After several trips to school, we pondered between the four trees around the playground, thinking about the location of the classroom, the performance stage under the tree next to the music classroom, the afternoon sun outside the window of the library, imagining the future of school buildings around The four scenes and four narratives developed by the four big trees remind of the four landscape paintings in the Northern Song Dynasty painter Guo Xi’s “Lin Quan Gao Zhi”: feasible, observable, tourable, and liveable.