© Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

架构师提供的文本描述。这是东京市中心一套公寓的装修工程，客户无意中说，他们想在别的地方度过一段美好的时光，只想在自己的房子里度过一段美好的时光。然后我想，“确实”。我总是发现，我们周围的房子离每个家庭和社区的现实都太远了，而且它们看起来都很相似。似乎在家庭生活中没有身份，这是荒谬的。

Text description provided by the architects. This is a renovation project of an apartment in downtown Tokyo.The client said unintentionally that they want to spend a brilliant time together nowhere else but in their house. Then I thought, “Indeed”. I always find that houses around us are way too far from the reality of each family life and communities, and they all look alike. It seems as if there were no identity in family life, which is ridiculous.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

家庭是人生的另一种性格。我想在两个主题之间自由地来来去去，我和我的家人，就像在照顾孩子的时候烫我的衬衫，同时聚在一起吃晚饭，在另一个房间唱一首歌后哼着歌，和躺在同一层楼的人交谈等等。我相信这是团队生活的价值所在。

Family is another personality of one’s life. I would like to come and go freely between two subjects, me and my family, just like ironing my shirts while paying attention to children, gathering and having dinner all at once, humming after a song sung in another room, talking to someone lying down on a same floor, and so on. This is a value of Team Living, I believe.

因此，我认为这完全不同于他们希望通过制作普通的LDK(日本的典型规划方式)和私人房间，为每个成员提供一些人为的家庭圈和隐私空间的价值。

Therefore, I thought it is completely different from the value they desire to give some divided spaces for an artificial family circle and privacy to each member by making ordinary LDK(typical way of planning in japan) and private rooms.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

把一个人的活动看作一个统一，他就会发现，统一包含了他身边的其他个性和环境。让我把团结称为“团队”，他可以一起行动。然后，团队将继续交易其成员的活动变化，他将永远不会是一个人。即使是一张他全神贯注于阅读的长凳，天花板下弥漫着的光线，还有他母亲的在场，他还能稍微感觉到这一切，所有这些都可以被称为团队。以这种方式把包含其他人和环境的团队作为一个主题，他自然会接纳他的朋友、邻居的孩子，甚至是拜访他的美甲师妻子的客人，并花些时间和他们在一起。因此，我想我应该建造一座能产生积极态度的房子，因为他能把其他人看作是自己的一部分。

Think one’s activity as one unity, and he will find that the unity contains other personalities and the environment beside him. Let me call the unity “a team” that he can act together with. Then, the team would keep trading its member as the activity changes, and he would never be alone. Even a bench on which he is absorbed in reading, the light diffused under the ceiling, and the presence of his mother ironing that he feels slightly, all of these can be called a team. Thinking the team that contains the others and the environment as one subject in this manner, he would naturally accept his friends, children in his neighbor, and even a guest visiting his wife who is a manicurist into his team, and spend some time with them. Therefore, I thought I should make a house that produces a positive attitude as he can perceive the others a part of himself.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

这座房子就像一个完整的起居室，但稍微分为不同的环境，以支持每个家庭成员以自己的方式行事。从字面上讲，这所房子里似乎没有私人空间。通常，为每个家庭成员提供私人房间，让他们随意放置床、书桌和衣橱，但在这所房子里，除了浴室外，所有空间都是家庭共用的，因为每个地方都有各种功能。例如，床都在卧室里，桌子都在书房里，壁橱都在家庭壁橱里，等等。就好像这是理所当然的事一样，一个人无论是身体上还是社会上，都被认为是一个个体。然而，可以说，他，事实上，总是属于一个团队，当他接受他人和环境作为空间资源。更新日常生活的主动权不是他个人，而是团队。

This house is like a whole living room but slightly divided into various environments to support each member of the family to behave in his/her own way. Literally, there appeared no private room in this house. Usually, private rooms are provided for each member of the family to place beds, desks, and closets at random, but in this house, all the space except the bathroom is shared among the family as common for everyone’s use because every function is integrated into each place. For example, beds are all in Bedroom and desks are all in a Study desk, closets are all in Family closet, and so on. As if it was a matter of course, a man is recognized, physically or socially, as an individual. However it is possibly can be said that he, as a matter of fact, always belongs to a team that is born when he accept the others and the environment as spatial resource. It is not he as individual but the very team that takes the initiative in renewing daily life.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

空间资源参与

Involvement in Spatial Resource

这套公寓位于高速公路附近，周围环绕着70年代建造的其他大型公寓，由于这一开发项目造成的垂直化和致密化，在该地区留下了一些剩余的停车场。这一场景，一系列建筑物的高度重复，窗户的大小与停车场一样的汽车，似乎有点朴素。(鼓掌)

The apartment is located near highway, and surrounded with other massive apartments also built in 70’s, and the verticalization and densification caused by this development left some parking lots in the area as its surplus. The scene, a series of building elevations repeated with windows same size as the parking lots full with cars, seems a bit plain.   

自从这个公寓第一次装修到现在已经有20年了，所以我这次制定的计划是这个公寓的第三代。参照第一和第二，两者的规划方式相同，即将给定的内部空间划分为私人空间，内部空间的构成与外部无关。

It had been 20 years since this flat was renovated for the first time, so the plan I made this time is the third generation for this flat. Referring to the first and second, both are planed in a same way that is dividing the given inner space into private rooms, and the composition of internal space is unrelated to the outside.

另一方面，由于这个单位在五楼，我可以看到绿色之间的建筑物通过南窗口。透过北窗，我能听到邻居和另一个在地上走的邻居说话。很快我发现这里的气氛有点可爱。然后，我想知道这个房子是不是一个有机的空间，把一个公寓的单位和城市的空间连接起来，只要它能把友好的外部环境和现象融入到内部空间，也就是说，在建筑构图上的搬迁。

On the other hand, since this flat is on the fifth floor, I could see greens remained between buildings through the south window. Through the north window, I could hear the neighbors talking to the other neighbor walking on the ground. Soon I found the atmosphere is somehow a bit adorable. Then, I wondered if this house could be an organic space connecting a flat of an apartment to the urban space as long as it could adopt the friendly environment and phenomenon outside into the inner space, which is, so to speak, relocation in architectural composition.

根据公寓的原则，开口是不能碰的。取而代之的是，提供三重拱顶天花板，以便将外部环境吸引到内部。为了化解这代人在公寓中经常遇到的巨大梁给人的压力感，原本定得很低的顶棚高度，被转换成各种截面形状的空间，从而将整个空间连在一起，同时又分开。

According to the principle of the apartment, the openings could not be touched. Instead, triple-vault ceiling is provided in order to draw the outer environment into the inside. As dissolving a feeling of pressure that huge beams give, which is often found in the apartment in this generation, the ceiling height, originally was set low, was transformed into space with a variety of sectional figure, and thus whole space of the flat is connected, while divided. 

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

来自外部的光线被限制在地板上，并通过三位一体的拱顶进入内部空间。原来是平房中最黑暗的地方，它的中心充满了漫天的光线和流过的风。这种与外部环境的新联系，给平地带来了宜人的气氛。由于楼层上下，空间也在滑动，空间被扩展到不同的方向。房子也有平坦的天花板，这有助于增加更多的各种条件，同时，一个男人创造自己的行为。住在阳光下，一家人坐在餐桌旁，感受外面的绿色，高楼-住得既亲密又开阔，可以看到整栋房子，还可以洗澡-就在城市空间的巨大空隙旁边，住着做家务。所有这些都有很高的迁移，有两种以上的方式进出，房子变得自发，相互作用的邻接空间。

The light from the outside is bounded on the floor and brought into the inner space by the triple-vault. The center of the flat that originally was the darkest in the flat is filled with the diffused light and wind passing through. This new linkage with the outer environment brings the flat a pleasant atmosphere.  Spaces are expanded into different directions since floors go up and down and space also is slid. The house also has flat ceilings, which helps it add more various conditions, and along with that a man creates his own behaviors. Sun-living where the family takes seats at a dinning table feeling the green outside, and Raised-floor-living having obtained both intimacy and openness by a view of an entire house, and a bath-living for doing household right next to a huge void of the urban space. All of these has a high migration with more than two ways in and out, and the house became spontaneous, interacted with adjacency space.

 © Takumi Ota

(小田隆美)

Architects Masatoshi Hirai Architects Atelier

Location Tokyo, Japan

Category Apartment Interiors

Area 94.28 sqm

Project Year 2016

Photographs Takumi Ota