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架构师提供的文本描述。在东京的一块地块上，一座小花园在一所老房子旁边很长一段时间里一直欣欣向荣。随着现有的小建筑被取代，我们的客户真的想要保护花园，让它在房子周围蔓延。小块地也应该适合停车，最大的足迹的房子，和必要的缺口，地点周边。

Text description provided by the architects. On a plot in Tokyo, a small garden has been thriving next to an old house for a long time. As the tiny existing building was replaced, our client really wanted to preserve the garden and allow it to sprawl all around the house. The small plot should also fit a parking, the maximum footprint of the house, and the necessary gap to the site perimeter.

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客户是一对夫妇，他们会先把这所房子用作周末别墅，然后才搬到东京。他们也有住在东京和国外的成年孩子，他们会时不时地住在房子里。因此，这个计划是相当不明确的，我们没有建造一个有很多小房间的房子，而是选择了一个概念，在这个小房子里留出几个大空间。

The client is a couple that will first use this house as a weekend house before eventually moving to Tokyo. They also have grown-up children living in Tokyo and abroad that will inhabit the house from time to time. Therefore, the program was fairly unspecified, and rather than making a house with many small rooms, we opted for a concept which gives a few large spaces in this small house.

一楼陷进了地面，在花园附近找到了一种新的关系，一种新的视角来思考绿色植物，还有一种非传统的对场地周围空隙的开放。整层楼周围不间断的玻璃缝隙意味着这所房子向四面八方开放，向宽阔狭窄的花园空间开放，也向街道开放。

The ground floor is sunken a bit into the ground to find a new relation in absolute proximity to the garden, a new perspective to contemplate the greenery and an un-traditional openness to the gap around the site. The uninterrupted glass slit around the entire ground floor means that the house is opening up to all sides, to wide and narrow garden spaces, as well as to the street.

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 Ground Floor Plan

由于房子的底部半凹陷，二楼可以是一个独特的开放空间，在最高建筑高度范围内有一个比例大的天花板高度；仍然相对接近地面，在进入屋顶露台的同时，不会与花园的绿色植物失去联系。这间二楼的大房间向四面八方开放，有一个玻璃缝，提供半户外的感觉，享受360度的场地全景、树梢和天空。

Due to the semi-sunken base of the house, the second floor can be a singular open space with a proportionally large ceiling height within the maximum building height; still in relative proximity to the ground, not losing contact with the greenery of the garden while giving access to the roof terrace as well. This big second floor room is open to all sides with a glass slit, providing a sense of being semi-outdoor, enjoying a 360-degree panorama of the site, the tree-tops, and the sky.

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Architects Elding Oscarson

Location Tokyo, Japan

Category Houses

Partners in Charge Jonas Elding, Johan Oscarson

Project Architect Yuko Maki

Area 99.0 m2

Project Year 2015

Photographs Kenichi Suzuki