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架构师提供的文本描述。在法戈咖啡馆，我们把一家以前被忽视的街角商店改造成了美国纽约州布法罗住宅区的一家小咖啡店。前一家商店建于1929年，是一座建于1880年左右的三层砖房一角的一块整块砖。

Text description provided by the architects. With Café Fargo, we converted a formerly neglected corner store into a small coffee shop in a residential neighborhood of Buffalo, NY, USA. The former store, built in 1929, is a monolithic brick addition to the corner of a 3-story brick house built around 1880.

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通常情况下，对于酒店空间，大量的建筑预算用于机械系统，在全年提供统一的室内气候。在预算紧张的情况下，我们采取了相反的方法，将这些无形的机械服务转化为两种强调夏季和冬季独特乐趣的体验式建筑元素。我们建造了：

Typically, for a hospitality space, a large amount of the construction budget goes into mechanical systems that provide a uniform indoor climate throughout the year. With a tight budget, we took the opposite approach and transformed these invisible mechanical services into two experiential architectural elements that emphasize the distinct pleasures of summer and winter. We built:

-超大的可操作窗户和天窗，提供自然通风和被动冷却，以及

-extra-large operable windows and skylights that provide natural ventilation and passive cooling, and

-一种大型的燃烧木材的Kakhofen(砖石加热器)，作为空间的辐射源。

-a large-scale, wood burning Kachelofen (masonry heater) which serves as the radiant heat source for the space.

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有了这两个低科技和经验丰富的元素，我们消除了任何管道工程的需要，并保持修复的锡天花板畅通无阻。

With these two low-tech and experientially rich elements, we eliminated the need for any ductwork and to kept the restored tin ceiling unobstructed.

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哈德威克霍尔(德比郡，1590-97)作为该项目的案例研究。这座建筑具有动态的居住模式，在冬季的大壁炉和夏季的大海湾窗户之间不断移动。同样的，我们把法戈咖啡厅的空间展开，中间是一个超大的、可操作的折叠窗户，用于夏季通风，而在空间的核心，则是一个大型的卡什奥芬。

Hardwick Hall (Derbyshire, 1590-97) stood as a case study for the project. This building features a dynamic inhabitation pattern, where occupation is constantly moving between large fireplaces in winter and large bay windows in summer. Similarly, we unfolded the space of Café Fargo between extra-large, operable sliding-folding windows at the perimeter wall for summer ventilation and a large-scale Kachelofen at the core of the space.

 Floor Plan

这个空间由三个乐队组成，围绕着这座历史建筑的角落。最里面的乐队包括一个大型的卡什奥芬，作为一个长的，水平的，加热的长凳和一个垂直的塔。这座塔还形成了一个空间口袋，里面有浴室。卡诺芬是北美最大的，是与当地一名石匠密切合作研究和开发的。

The space is structured in three bands, wrapping around the corner of the historic house. The innermost band consists of the large-scale Kachelofen, constructed as a long, horizontal, heated bench and a vertical tower. The tower also forms a spatial pocket that contains the bathroom. The Kachelofen is the largest in North America and was researched and developed in close collaboration with a local mason.

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最外层由大型折叠滑动窗组成，厚厚的橡木窗台延伸到长凳上。适宜居住的周边模糊了内外之间的屏障；打开后，空间感觉就像一个被覆盖的室外露台。

The outermost band consists of the large-scale folding-sliding windows with thick oak sills extended into benches. The habitable perimeter blurs the barrier between inside and outside; opened-up, the space feels like a covered outdoor patio.

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窗户和炉子之间的空间为不断变化的座位模式提供了一个开放的空间。这些灯用磁铁固定在旧的锡天花板上，使照明模式在全年都能改变，并遵循不同的座位安排。

The space between the windows and the stove provides an open area for ever-changing seating patterns. The lights are held-up on the old tin ceiling with magnets, allowing the lighting patterns to change and follow different seating arrangements throughout the year.

 Frontal Axonometric

额叶轴测

因为这个空间在不同的高度提供了三种不同的座位选择-窗台、椅子和炉子长椅-我们设计了一张高度可调的桌子。桌面，固定在三脚架底座与螺纹杆，可以旋转像钢琴凳子上或下，以适应不同的座位高度。

Because the space offers three different seating options at different heights – the window sills, the chairs and the stove bench – we designed a height-adjustable table. The tabletop, fixed to a tripod base with a threaded rod, is able to be spun like a piano stool up or down to adapt to the different seating heights.

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除了增设的两个部分(暖气和窗户)外，翻修主要是拆除多年积累的各种地板、墙壁和天花板表面。我们避免了任何形式的额外包覆，修整或墙壁覆盖。通过这种剥离的方法，我们使空间和它与老房子的关系更加清晰。

Apart from the two added elements (heater and window), the renovation consisted mainly of stripping away the various floor, wall and ceiling surfaces that had accumulated over the years. We avoided any form of additional cladding, trimming or wall coverings. With this stripping-away approach, we made the space and its relationship to the older house, more legible.

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大型的体验元素-Windows和Kochofen-为用户提供了与任何特定程序无关的强大的物理关系，使其成为未来更多用途的诱人空间。

The large, experiential elements – the windows and Kachelofen – offer users powerful physical relationships independent from any specific program, making it an alluring space for many more future uses.

Architects Davidson Rafailidis

Location Buffalo, NY, United States

Category Adaptive Reuse

Project Team Georg Rafailidis (lead), Stephanie Davidson

Project Staff Jia Ma, Aleksandr Marchuk

Area 82.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs Florian Holzherr