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架构师提供的文本描述。“旧约”的创世开始于“上帝创造天地”这句话。

Text description provided by the architects. Genesis of the Old Testament begins from the sentence "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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创7天的书上写着。

And the Creation of seven days is written.

(第一天)上帝创造了光明和黑暗。上帝召唤光。白天，还有他称之为黑夜的黑暗。

(The first day) God made light and darkness. And God called the light. Day, and the darkness he called Night.

(第二天)神造天，造地，造海。

(The second day) God made sky and made the ground and the sea.

(第三天)上帝生了一棵植物，一棵果树，一棵树和一种植物。

(The third day) God produced a plant, a fruit tree, the trees and plants.

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(第四天)上帝创造了太阳，月亮，星星。

(The fourth day) God made the sun, the moon, a star.

(第五天)上帝造了海里所有的生物，用翅膀造了所有的鸟。

(The fifth day) God made all creatures which were in the sea and made all birds with a wing.

(第六天)上帝创造了所有生活在地上的动物。上帝创造了一个人，最后创造了一个男人和女人

(The sixth day) God created all animals which lived in the ground. And God created a person and created it to a man and woman last 　

天地都完了，所有的军兵.

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them...

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爱情之家是一对夫妇的房子，占地33平方米，每10米深3.3m，我计划建造一座正面2.7米/9米深的建筑。我在那里画了一个最大的曲线，上面有一座建筑物的宽度和深度，我把屋顶和天空的一个地方都画成了曲线，我用这条曲线规划了从一楼到二楼的楼梯。这些所创造的建筑的主要空间，是它与空间的“不是边的，也不是外面的”。

Love House is a house for a couple. On a very small site of 33 square meters of frontage 3.3m / 10m deep, I planned a building of frontage 2.7m / about 9m deep. I draw the biggest curve on there with width and depth of a building, I distributed a place of a roof and a place of a sky with the curve、And I planned the stairs which went up from the first floor to the second floor with this curve. The main space of the building which these created, it is it with the space that it "is not indside, and is not the outside".

阳光很清楚地显示出从清晨到晚上到这个空间的变化。这个没有照明设备的空间变成了一些蜡烛的光和夜晚的黑暗共存的空间。下雨天，雨帘沿着屋顶的弯道出现。下雨的时候，并不总是一样的声音。

Sunlight shows the change from early morning to the evening very clearly to this space. This space without a lighting equipment turns into space where the light of some candles and the darkness of night live together. On a rainy day, a rainy curtain appears along a curve of a roof. When it rains, it is not always the same sound.

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安静的雨，强烈的雨，随风而下的雨.雨会发出各种各样的声音。阳光和月光在爱屋里嬉戏，雨和风来了爱情之家，鸟儿和昆虫访问了爱屋的一棵树和一棵果树。

Quiet rain, intense rain, rain with wind ... rain create various sounds. Light of the sun and moonlight play in the Love House, and rain and wind visit Love House, and birds and insects visit a tree and a fruit tree of Love House.

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情况每天都不一样。我们可以知道，地球上所有的大自然都是在非常小的爱之家里准备好的。一对夫妇选择了与一切事物共存来参观爱情之家，他们决定不把电视放在这里享受这个丰富的空间。

The situations differ every day. We can know that all nature given on the earth is prepared in very small Love House. A couple chose coexistence with all things to visit Love House and they decided not to put television to enjoy this rich space.

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爱情之家不分内外。我发现了一个新的空间，它“不在里面，也不在外面”。爱情之家也被建造了。

Love House does not separate inside and the outside. I discovered the new space that it "is not inside, and is not outdside". And Love House was made.

 First Floor Plan

一层平面图

我们的感觉和本能可能会继续保持着人类在创造的时候所感受到的东西。我有一种感觉，爱之家能让我们想起它们。

Our sense and instinct may continue still having the thing which the human felt at the time of the Creation. I have a feeling that Love House can remind us of them.

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Architects Takeshi Hosaka

Location Yokohama, Japan

Category Houses

Area 33.0 sqm

Project Year 2005

Photographs Masao Nishikawa, Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Partners