架构师提供的文本描述。一所房子的建筑将在多大程度上成为一个不断变化的当代环境？

Text description provided by the architects. To what extent will the architecture of a house sought to become in a constant changing contemporary context?

 Perspective

瞬息万变的社会使建筑必须迅速变化，以适应新功能或商品化的需求，而变化的频率又是模棱两可的，也是持久的。如果一个地方的定义仅仅是以价值为中心，那么房子在多大程度上支持经济价值和功能这一矛盾的现实，同时保留其核心建筑，即培育、稳定和永久？

Fast changing society put architecture at a point to which it has to change quickly to adapt to the demand of new functions or commercialization, and the frequency of changes is both ambiguous and persistent. If a place is defined just by the focus on values, to what extent will the house support the ambivalent reality of economic value and function, while retaining its core architectural one, which is nurture, stability, and permanence?

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在见证改造的过程中，设计背后的建筑师们面临着一个开放式的问题，那就是房子应该如何成长，思考哪一部分是保留其核心建筑意图的心脏，而房子的其余部分则可以免费进行修改。

Witnessing the course of alterations, the architects behind the design are confronted with an open-ended question on how a house should grow, pondering on which part is the heart that will retain its core architectural intention, while the remaining chunk of the house will be free for modifications.

 Axonometric

委员会修复一个朋友的房子，KIENTRUC O选择填补在上下文中减去了一个空白的网站。这座房子是一座有70年历史的殖民地别墅，坐落在市中心最繁忙的道路之一。最初的房子是一座砖砌的建筑，20年前在房子的后部增加了一个独立的钢结构。

Commission to renovate a friend house, KIENTRUC O chose to fill in the context by subtracting the site with a void. The house is a seventy years old colonial villa that sits on one of the busiest roads in the heart of the city. The original house is a brick building that later expanded with an additional separate steel structure at the back of the house twenty years ago.

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(C)小平之(Hirouki Oki)

面对城市的不断混乱，房子与城市环境并列，通过空间减法将自身内倾，创造出一种空隙来表示其嘈杂的环境，而只留下了内心的独白、诗意的静默、反思、沉思和联系的时刻。在几何学上，空隙沿房屋的水平侧面向后面的钢结构方向雕刻，一直向上延伸到屋顶，形成上述楼层的后退模式。空隙几何的空间抽象是物化的。

Confronted with the constant chaos of the city, the house juxtaposes against its urban context by introverting itself through spatial subtraction, creating a void that denotes its noisy context, only to remain a moment of internal monologue, poetic stillness, reflection, contemplation, and connection. Elliptical in geometry, the void carves along the horizontal side of the house toward the steel structure to the back, continuing upward to the roof forming the receding pattern of the floors above. The spatial abstraction of the void’s geometry is materialized.

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(C)小平之(Hirouki Oki)

自商业化以来，建筑已经发生了变化。它不只是传达美学的过去，而是更多的商业解释，其逻辑在未来的某个时候将失效，而且它很快就会失效。当虚空静坐在寂静中，表示分心时，它是情感纯洁的体现，在越南人对自然的理解中触发了一种微妙的感觉，尽管程序功能含糊不清。

Architecture has changed since commercialization. It does not just convey aesthetic as how it used to be, but more commercial construed, whose logic at some point in the future will expire, and it rather expires quickly. As the void sits in silence, denoted of distractions, it is the embodiment of the purity of emotion, triggering a sense of subtlety in the Vietnamese understanding of nature, despite the ambiguity of programmatic function.

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(C)小平之(Hirouki Oki)

Architects KIENTRUC O

Location Vietnam

Lead Architect Đàm Vũ

Design Team An-Ni Lê, Dân Hồ, Tài Nguyễn, Duy Tăng, Nhung Hồ

Area 775.0 m2

Project Year 2017

Photographs Hiroyuki Oki

Category Renovation