架构师提供的文本描述。蛋糕屋是一个扩建两个家庭的房子的项目.

Text description provided by the architects. The Cake House is a project for the extension of a two-familiy house.

1-分析和意见：

1 - Analysis and observations:

现有的房屋位于该镇的住宅区内，该镇建于1950年至1970年，其特点是有一个或两个有花园的家庭住宅。

The existing house is located in a residential area of the town which was built between 1950 and 1970 and is characterized by one or two-family houses with a garden.

 © Riccardo Magherini

里卡多·马盖里尼

客户的需要是在不减少花园面积的情况下，增加20%的居住空间。经过初步分析，它决定采取行动，在房子的西南面的花园，然后它可以提供一个新的观点的城镇。从一开始就很明显，主要的问题之一是调整房子的现有体积，因为在房子的那一边操作意味着要彻底破坏现有的平衡。

The client's needs were to increase the living space of 20 per cent, without diminishing the garden area. After a preliminary analysis it was decided to act on the south-west side of the house that was facing the garden and it could then offer a new view on the town. From the beginning it was clear that one of the main problems would have been the adjustment to the existing volume of the house because operating on that side of the house would have mean to completely upset the existing balance of it.

 © Riccardo Magherini

里卡多·马盖里尼

2-项目

2 - The project

我们不只是想扩大或扩大现有的结构，而是我们有一个想法，即体积的增加应该来自于与原始形状完全不同的东西。然后我们决定我们的项目将基于成瘾和减法的概念，而不是简单的扩展。现有建筑的全部部分被移除，以获得建造新安装的适当平台。

We did not simply want to expand or enlarge the existing structure but we rather had the idea that the volume boost should come out of something completely new in relation to the original shape. We then decided that our project would have been based on the aritmetic concept of addiction and subtraction rather than on a simple expansion. A full part of the existing building was removed to obtain the appropriate platform where to build the new installment.

 © Riccardo Magherini

里卡多·马盖里尼

3-蛋糕

3 - The Cake

蛋糕项目被称为“蛋糕项目”，它遵守了我们的Tetracube协议中定义的规则。我们已经知道我们的蓝图将是一个原始的三维图形添加到现有的卷，但这是不够的。我们需要具体的规则来塑造它。在我们的各种，也是偶然的研究中，我们注意到一些分层蛋糕有我们所需要的结构：一个简单的基本形状，在不同的变形中会逐渐变得更加复杂。

The Cake project, as it was called, abide by the rules defined in our Tetracube protocol. We already knew our blueprint would have been a primitive three-dimension graphic to add on the existing volume, but it was not enough. We needed specific rules to shape it. In our various, also fortuitous research, we noticed that some stratified cakes had the structure that we needed: a simple basic shape that can gradually become more complex subctrating parts of it at different dephts.

 © Riccardo Magherini

里卡多·马盖里尼

有趣的部分，也是最有意义的是，彩色层可以作为记忆的标志，什么被拿走了块。因此，图层是以前的视觉链接。通过这种方式，最终的形状可以是一种“读取”初始形状的方式。里面有“时间”的项目。

The amusing part of it and also the most significative one was that the coloured layers could function as a memory mark of what was taken away off the block. Layers are thus the visual link to what was there previously. In this way the final shape can be a way 'to read' the initial one. A project with 'time' inside.

 © Riccardo Magherini

里卡多·马盖里尼

按照我们的Tetracube设计协议，我们开始通过简单的减法创建不同的功能形状。例如，通过在屋顶上切出一小部分，我们实现了厨房单元。同样的程序被用于窗百叶窗，即使在这种情况下，减去的部分没有被“重用”为不同的目的。百叶窗是放在移动车厢上的，当它们扫上时，会显示蛋糕内部分层的部分，现在就这样揭示了：基本上，百叶窗是我们投射概念的展示。

Following our Tetracube design protocol we started to create different functional shapes trough simple subctractions. By cutting out a small portion in the roof, for example, we realized the kitchen unit. The same procedure was used for the windows shutters even if in this case the subtracted parts weren't 'reused' for a different purpose. Shutters were put on mobile carriages and when they sweep on they show the stratified inner part of the cake, now thus revealed: so basically the shutters are the display of our projectual concept.