架构师提供的文本描述。小房子有一个大露台是一个清晰的例子，有很大的外部空间，在小城市住宅，有限的场地面积东京。通过这座房子的设计过程，我们试图证明拥有丰富的私人外部空间对于提高房子内的生活质量以及获得各种外部活动的可能性都是非常重要的。

Text description provided by the architects. Little House with a Big Terrace is a lucid example of having large external space in small urban residence with limited site area of Tokyo. Through the process of designing this house, we tried to prove that having rich private external space was important for making crucial difference in the quality of life inside the house, as well as obtaining various possibilities of external activity.

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山本隆郎(Takuro Yamamoto)

我们决定的第一件事是在住宅的主要部分旁边有一个露天空间，并将它们与大开的窗户连接起来。大窗户，这是必要的，使内部空间宽敞，良好的照明和通风，是最昂贵的部分之一的建筑物，所以我们集中在选定的地方，有效地提高内部空间的质量。

The first thing we decided was having an open-air space next to the main part of the residence, and connecting them with big opening of windows. Big Windows, which are necessary for making internal spaces spacious, well-lighted and airy, are one of the most costly parts of buildings, so we concentrated them to selected places, effective for improving the quality of internal spaces.

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山本隆郎(Takuro Yamamoto)

考虑到客户夫妇最初的要求是拥有一个大露台，可以在阳光下自由地做瑜伽，把露台连接到客厅，把卧室和大窗户连接起来，是为室内空间提供新鲜空气和日光的最佳方式，比如有呼吸器官让房子呼吸。

Considering that the client couple’s original request was having a big terrace for doing yoga freely under the sun, connecting the terrace to the living room and the bedroom with big windows was the best way to offer fresh air and daylight to the internal spaces, like having respiratory organ to let the house breathe.

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山本隆郎(Takuro Yamamoto)

地块东侧的二楼被选为私人露天空间，因为那个地方面对的是南边一栋相邻房屋的单层车库的屋顶。由于车库高度较低，这个地方暴露在高密度住宅区的阳光下，这在东京是比较罕见的情况。

The second floor level of the eastern half of the site was chosen as private open-air space, because that place was facing to the rooftop of the single story garage of a neighboring house on the south. Thanks to the lower height of the garage, this place is exposed to the sunlight in the high density residential area, which is a relatively rare situation in Tokyo.

通过在这里制造一个穿透南北的大矩形管，就可以得到一个明亮而通风的空旷空间。同时，这一外部空间的隐私受到保护，不受东部邻近房屋的非常靠近的窗户的影响，通过靠近该方向的管道壁进行保护。

By making a big rectangular tube here penetrating north-south, a bright and airy open space can be obtained. At the same time, the privacy of this external space is protected against very close windows of neighboring houses on the east, by the wall of the tube closed to that direction.

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山本隆郎(Takuro Yamamoto)

管尽量大，因为更大的外部空间可以捕捉更多的阳光和更大的蓝天。然而，在有限的场地区域内拥有较大的外部空间意味着房屋内部空间的减少。为了弥补地板面积的损失，在第一层和第二层之间插入了一个存储阁楼，其天花板高度小于1400毫米。

The tube was tried to be made as large as possible, because larger external space can catch more sunshine and larger blue sky. However, having large external space in the limited site area means reduction of the internal space of the house. To make up for the loss of the floor area, an attic for storage was inserted between the first floor and the second, whose ceiling height is less than 1400 mm.

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山本隆郎(Takuro Yamamoto)

通过这种安排，这所房子获得了足够的实际空间，而客厅和露台的采光得到了改善，因为这些空间的水平被推高了。

By this arrangement, this house obtained a sufficient amount of the practicable space while the daylighting of the living room and terrace was improved, because the levels of those spaces were pushed up higher.

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山本隆郎(Takuro Yamamoto)

正如你已经看到的，小房子和一个大露台通过连接到外部空间的无限扩展来创造舒适的内部空间。在高密度住区中，实现城市住宅的真实空间，最有效的方法是在设计中加入无限的外部空间，而不是试图使内部空间变大，这不可避免地会受到场地面积的限制。

As you have already seen, Little House with a Big Terrace creates comfortable internal spaces by connecting them to the unlimited extension of external space. The most effective way to achieve real spaciousness of urban houses in high density residential area is to incorporate unlimited external spaces into design rather than trying to make internal spaces larger, which is inevitably limited by the size of site area.

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山本隆郎(Takuro Yamamoto)

Architects Takuro Yamamoto

Location Tokyo, Japan

Category Houses

Project Year 2015