架构师提供的文本描述。太田市美术馆位于上海西外滩文化

Text description provided by the architects. OTA FINE ARTS gallery is located in Shanghai West Bund Culture & Art Pilot Zone, it is the first time settled in China, which is also the third gallery following the gallery of Tokyo and Singapore. 2017 is the 23rd year since the OTA FINE ARTS was founded. As the founder, Hidenori Ota is the most important promoter of Japan's contemporary national treasure artist Kusama Yayoi. He hopes to continue to provide the platform to more Asian cutting-edge artists and expands the new direction of the Asian contemporary art.

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c.Kano英一

这个基地是一个三湾的旧平房。我们选择拆除它，并希望建立一个全新的，纯正的建筑，充满了新的设计语言。

The base was a three-bay old bungalow. We chose to dismantle it and hope to build a brand-new and pure building which be full of new design language.

 © Eiichi Kano

c.Kano英一

 © Eiichi Kano

c.Kano英一

我们设想画廊所需的六个主要功能区域为六个单元盒，因为考虑到场地的长方形形状，以及业主要求最大限度地利用该区域。我们用矩形框形来展示，用最基本的单元来最大化空间，通过大量的块状研究，达到了建筑形式和功能的平衡。最后，有四个纯粹的大块组成的六个单位的盒子。

We imagine the six main functional areas required by the gallery as six unit boxes，due to considering the rectangular shape of the site and the require by the owner to maximize the use of the area. We use the rectangular box form to display and the most basic unit to maximize the space，Through a lot of block study, we have reached a balance of architectural form and function. Finally, there are four pure big blocks made up of six unit boxes.

 © Eiichi Kano

c.Kano英一

 © Eiichi Kano

c.Kano英一

对于建筑材料，我们想用上海的传统元素来展示。从上海传统石库门的灰砖到法国殖民时期老别墅的红砖，这种砖似乎是上海建筑的典型象征。我们选择砖作为纹理，但我们把它的颜色抽象成白色。这不仅体现了上海的特色，而且与现代外滩艺术区的众多白色建筑融为一体。

For material of the building, we want to use the traditional elements of Shanghai to show it. From gray brick of Shanghai traditional Shikumen to the red brick of old villa in colonial period of France, the brick seems to be the typical symbol in Shanghai building. We chose the brick as texture, but we abstract its color into white. This not only shows the characteristics of the city of Shanghai, but also syncretize with the many white buildings in the modern art area of the West Bund.

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c.Kano英一

建筑物的正门位于西侧，西侧没有窗户，这样更有效地利用了展览空间的墙壁，建筑的西面墙与建筑周围的两座建筑结合，形成了一个庭院空间，这使得大门的主入口空间更有聚集感，东侧面向外滩工作人员的办公室入口，也是画廊的主要立面。我们使用不同大小的窗户在建筑内部和室外空间之间创建一个对话。

The main entrance to the building is located on the western side, there is no window in the western side, in this way, the wall of the exhibition space is more effectively used, the western wall of the building combines with two buildings around the building to make a courtyard space, which makes the main entrance space more sense of aggregation.The eastern side of the building faces the office entrance of the West Bund staff and it is also the main facade of the gallery. We use different sized windows to create a dialogue between the interior of the building and the outdoor space.

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c.Kano英一