架构师提供的文本描述。西雅图的住房短缺增加了单身家庭社区的压力，要求他们在有限的单身家庭用地上提供更多的可用空间。规范的新住房拆除了现有的小型建筑，取而代之的是“西雅图现代盒子”，在分区规划的挫折中，最大限度地提高了建筑的大小和密度。

Text description provided by the architects. The Seattle housing shortage has increased pressure on single family neighborhoods to provide more usable space on limited single family lots. Normative new housing demolishes existing small buildings and replaces them with ‘Seattle Modern Boxes’ that maximize building size and density within zoning setbacks.

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蚱蜢工作室和庭院提供了另一种密度，称为庭院城市化。保持一个1940年代的房子的小足迹，多功能工作室增加沿后巷。由此产生的间隙空间形成了一个向天空开放的私人露台。这种庭院式的城市化使场地的可用面积增加了三倍，使室内和室外空间之间的界线变得模糊。一棵中央的丝质树在夏天提供斑驳的树荫。一个更大的财产的错觉是通过“借来的景观”从邻近的树木和天空上方。

Grasshopper Studio and Courtyard offers an alternative density called courtyard urbanism. Maintaining the small footprint of a 1940s house, a multifunctional studio was added along the rear alley. The resulting interstitial space formed a private terrace open to the sky. This courtyard urbanism tripled the usable square footage of the site by blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor space. A central Silk tree provides dappled shade in summer. The illusion of a much larger property is created through ‘borrowed landscape’ from adjacent trees and sky above.  

 Studio Plan

演播室计划

受中国古代南面四合院住宅的启发，中央铺好的露台是一个受保护的私人就餐、娱乐、休闲和全年游玩的场所。北边宽阔的人行道有时会成为非正式的座位，有时也会成为孩子们表演的舞台。开放计划工作室以编程方式不确定，以鼓励最大限度的灵活性。未来的用途包括来访的客人，短期租赁空间，公用/车间空间，以及主房子的游玩空间。一个展馆的屋顶，漂浮在大量的房子存储，浴室，洗衣房，和未来的厨房，延伸到一个车库和室外车间空间。

Inspired by ancient Chinese south facing courtyard housing, the central paved terrace is a protected private area for dining, entertaining, lounging and year-round play. The wide covered walkway to the north sometime becomes informal seating, at other times a stage for children’s performances. The open plan studio is programmatically indeterminate to encourage maximum flexibility. Future uses include visiting guests, short term rental space, utility/workshop space, and play space for the main house. A pavilion roof, floating over volumes that house storage, bathroom, laundry, and future kitchen, extends to form a carport and outdoor workshop space.

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工作室与室外之间的间隙区域由砖墙、木甲板确定，并由大型凉亭屋顶保护，免受天气影响。由建筑和景观元素组成的边界墙屏蔽了相邻的邻居，在密密麻麻的单一家庭社区形成了一片私人绿洲。混凝土砌块墙保留了等级变化，并将小巷从视野中隔开。工作室本身就是一个边界，过滤胡同景观，而光线流经牧师。

The interstitial zones between the studio and outdoors are defined by masonry walls, wood decks, and are protected from the weather by large pavilion roofs. A boundary wall of constructed and landscape elements screen the adjacent neighbors, creating a private oasis in a dense single family neighborhood.  A concrete block wall retains the grade change and screens the alley from view. The studio is a boundary in itself, filtering alley views while light streams through the clerestory.

 Exploded Axonometric

爆炸轴测

蚱蜢工作室庭院适应多种用途和家庭安排。小建筑足迹和大型私人户外空间的灵活性最大限度地利用和整合了整个物业的使用。作为对城市资源稀缺的回应，它鼓励重新思考单一家庭用地的安排，并为西雅图提供了未来的替代密度。

Grasshopper Studio Courtyard is adaptable to a multiplicity of uses and family arrangements. The flexibility of a small building footprint and large private outdoor space maximizes and integrates the use of the entire property. As a response to urban resource scarcity, it encourages rethinking the arrangement of the single-family lot and offers Seattle an alternative density for the future.

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