架构师提供的文本描述。该网站位于横滨郊区的车站，是新兴郊区的中心，年轻家庭的人口不断增长。许多大型购物设施分散，形成了独特的郊区城市景观，尽管有这些吸引人的设施、积极的城市规划和许多年轻人和精力充沛的人，但很难说它作为一个城镇或城市空间是否足够有吸引力。

Text description provided by the architects. The site is by the Station of the Yokohama suburban area, center of the emerging suburban district where the population of young families keeps growing.Several large shopping facilities are scattered and form a unique suburban  townscape, still it is hard to say that it is attractive enough as a town or an urban space, despite those attractive facilities, active urban planning and many young and energetic people.

 © Ken'ichi Suzuki

.铃木健一

积极的城市规划提供了许多广场和行人空间，但那些大型购物设施却退回到自己的内部空间，并且不太热衷于与这些公共空间进行交流，这是造成这一缺乏吸引力的城市空间的一个重要因素。许多购物设施都会跟着书，把顾客围在大楼里，让他们进入所有的商业活动，但是这种策略会消失在城市空间周围。相反，国内外许多历史名城的店铺都是开放的，并与城市空间建立了牢固的关系，以促进其业务的发展。在这里，商业活动与城市空间保持着积极的“循环”，相互促进。

The active city planning offers many plazas and pedestrian spaces, but those large shopping facilities retreat into their interior spaces, and are not too keen to communicate with these public spaces, which is an important factor in this unattractive urban space. Many shopping facilities follow the book and enclose customers inside the building to let them get through all the commercial activities, but this strategy passes away surrounding urban spaces. On the contrary, many local shops in domestic and abroad historic cities are open and make a strong relationship with the urban space, in order to promote their business. Here, commercial activities and urban spaces keep a positive “circulation” to enhance each other.

 © Ken'ichi Suzuki

.铃木健一

我们把这种“循环”和“城市空间”本身作为设计意图。

We focused on this “circulation” and “urban space” itself as a design intention.

分辨率是简单的组成交替堆叠的四个盒子，其中大致覆盖透明的玻璃皮。这种构图将传统的内外二分法细分为“外箱·外”/“内箱·外”/“内箱·外”/“内·内·内”，使城市空间与建筑空间得以顺利连接。

The resolution is the simple composition of alternately stacked four boxes, which are roughly covered by transparent glass skin. This composition subdivides conventional dichotomy between exterior and interior into “outside the box • exterior”/ “outside the box • interior”/ “inside the box • exterior”/ “inside the box • interior” and results in making a smooth connection of the urban space and the building space.

 © Ken'ichi Suzuki

.铃木健一

例如，现有的两个不同层次的广场，“象征广场”和“喷泉广场”，与商业空间紧密相连，在盒子下有一个中间区域，就像屋檐的边缘。一对夫妇坐在广场的台阶上，吃他们在租客那里买的馅饼，有些人在咖啡馆里放松一下，看了看，出现了大量这样的相互关系，每个空间都被协同激活和利用。

For instance, two existing plazas on a different level, “Symbol plaza” and “Fountain plaza”, are closely connected with commercial spaces by an intermediate area under the box, just like the edge of the eaves. A couple sits down on the step of the plaza and eats pies they purchased at the tenant and some people relax at the cafe, having a look at them; a great numbers of such interrelationships emerge, and each space is synergistically activated and utilized.

 © Ken'ichi Suzuki

.铃木健一

两层地面的寿命通过完全高度的中庭上升到上层。高层的城市空间与商业空间紧密相连，通过透明的表皮与开放的外观结合在一起，充分利用了盒子上露台的优势，以及它的全景景观。此外，还将公共步行街纳入三楼的大楼，将邻近车站与其后面的大型商业设施连接起来，并与该镇产生凝聚力。

The life of the two ground levels ascends to the upper floor through the full height atrium. The urban space and the commercial space on the upper level are strongly connected, in conjunction with an open exterior through the glazed skin and the advantage of the terrace on the box with its panoramic view. In addition to that, the Public Pedestrian Deck is taken into the building on the third floor, which connects the neighboring station and large commercial facilities behind it and brings cohesion with the town.

 © Ken'ichi Suzuki

.铃木健一

未来商业设施的成功在很大程度上取决于城市空间的可持续、有吸引力的规划和利用，而不是内部空间的充实。此外，建筑物的每一块都可能被重新视为城市空间的一部分，即时间连续体。传统的表层操作是不够的。这一次，我们可以超越表面，深入到包括城市空间在内的构成中去，但通过适当的建筑，它将能够更接近城市的持续价值。我们认为这是实现这一目标的第一步。

The success of future commercial facilities much depends on sustainable, attractive planning and utilization of the urban space, rather than repletion of interior spaces. Moreover, each piece of the building may have to be reconsidered as a part of the urban space, the time continuum. Conventional operation of the surface layer is not enough to achieve that. This time we could go beyond the surface and get further into the composition including the urban space, but it would be able to get much closer to the persistent value of the city, by reaching for the appropriate construction. We think this is the first step to reach there.

 First Floor Plan

一层平面图