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架构师提供的文本描述。在北方，由于天气多变，所有的居住建筑都必须以先进的方式建造。此外，房屋必须适当地加热外部能源超过一半的课程。因此，生产小型住宅将带来可观的经济和生态效益。今天，仅建筑活动就占全球能源和材料消耗总量的三分之一以上，远远超过了所有交通和运输的消耗。

Text description provided by the architects. In the North all buildings for living have to be made in an advanced way due to the ever-contrasting weather. Additionally, the houses have to be properly heated with external energy more than half of the year’s course. Therefore producing smaller homes would bring about a considerable economical and ecological benefit. Today the construction activity stands alone for more than one third of total global energy and material consumption, well exceeding that of all traffic and transport.

这应该是一个至关重要的问题，特别是在斯堪的纳维亚，那里的人民，根据他们日益增长的财富，拥有越来越大的房子。在大多数情况下，这是除了第二个家，称为避暑别墅或小屋。

This should be a crucial question especially in Scandinavia, where people, in accordance with their growing wealth, possess larger and larger houses. And in most cases, this in addition to a second home called a summer house or a cottage.

Boxhome是一座19平米的住宅，有四个房间，涵盖了基本的生活功能：厨房带餐厅、浴室、客厅和卧室。

Boxhome is a 19 square meter dwelling with four rooms covering the basic living functions: kitchen with dining, bathroom, living room and bedroom.

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首先，该项目注重空间、材料和自然光的质量，并试图减少不必要的建筑面积。其结果是一套住宅，其价格仅为同一面积内任何同一尺寸公寓价格的1/4。Boxhome是一座原型建筑，但同样的态度也可以进一步推广到更大的家庭住房和工作场所。

 Firstly, the project focuses in the quality of space, material and natural light, and tries to reduce unnecessary floor area. The result is a dwelling where the price is only 1/4 of the price of any same size apartment in the same area. Boxhome is a prototype building, yet the same attitude could be taken further to bigger family housing and consequently to work places.

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第二，我们似乎已经将建造家园的权利给予了无法控制的行为者群体，他们大多追求最大的收入。家庭保护的基本需要已经成为一种伟大的商业冒险。做一个简单的房子，毕竟，也许不是一项困难的任务，它应该完全留给这种力量。此外，满足官方建筑限制和法律通常似乎等于使用建筑业的产品和服务，从而限制了真正改变和发展的可能性降至最低。

 Secondly, it seems that we have given the right to produce our homes to uncontrollable groups of actors who seek mostly maximum income. The basic need to have one’s family protected has become a great business adventure. Making a simple house, after all, is perhaps not such a difficult task that it should be totally left for this kind of forces. Moreover, meeting the official construction restrictions and laws usually seems to equal to the using of the building industry products and services, thus limiting the possibilities of a real change and development into minimum.

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第三，在目前的西方社会中，我们正享受着人类所知的最高生活水平。同时，我们充分了解到我们消费主义文化的结果。其中存在着一个最大的悖论：我们被迫积极地忘记真正的现实，以便能够享受我们所创造的过度的表面。

Thirdly, in Western societies at the moment we are enjoying the highest standard of living ever know to human kind. At the same time we are fully informed of the results of our culture of consumerism. Therein lays the greatest paradox: We are forced to actively forget the real reality to be able to enjoy the facade of excess we have created around us.

最后，也是最重要的是，我们的目标是建立一个和平的小家园，一种城市洞穴，一个人可以在那里撤退，只要愿意，暂时忘记周围城市的强度。

 Finally, and most importantly, the goal has been to make a peaceful small home, a kind of urban cave, where a person can withdraw to, and whenever wished, forget the intensity of the surrounding city for awhile.

 © Ivan Brodey

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