架构师提供的文本描述。这座有5家商店的建筑位于日本名古屋中心。在这一地区，商店和咖啡馆所占的比例超过50%，预计将发展成为商业区的中心。场地宽度为8m，深度为25m，这类场地常在这一地区附近被观测到。由于场地的道路正面不够宽，所以建筑物都是全宽的，而且彼此站得很近。他们中的许多在路旁有很大的开口，在场地的后面有很少的开口。

Text description provided by the architects. This building that has 5 shops is located on the central of Nagoya, in Japan. The percentage of shops and cafés is more than 50% in this area, it is expected that will develop as the center of commercial area. The site is 8m width and 25m depth, and such sites are often observed around this area. Since a road frontage of sites is not wide enough, the buildings are built at full wide and stand close each other. Many of them have large openings on the road side and few openings on the back part of the site.

 © Hiroshi Tanigawa

(C)谷川广史(Hiroshi Tanigawa)

建筑物的前部与外部相连，背面部分与外部分离。在这个项目中，我们安排了一些管状的空隙，通过这个建筑，它们可以是垂直的和水平的旁路。它变成了人们穿过的一条路，一条风穿过的路，一条阳光进入的路，一种人们感受雨声的方式。

The front part of building is connected to outside and the back part is disconnected from outside. In this project, we arrange some tube-like voids that is passed through this building, they can be the vertical and horizontal bypath. It becomes a way people go through, a way winds pass through, a way sunlight go into, a way people feel the sound of rain.

 © Hiroshi Tanigawa

(C)谷川广史(Hiroshi Tanigawa)

在这座高密度城市中放置的空隙能够在整个建筑中产生各种“流动”，庭院被作为一个保持其流动的开放空间。

The voids that was put in the high-density city is able to produce various "flow" throughout the building, and the courtyard has been provided as a open space to retain its flow.

 © Hiroshi Tanigawa

(C)谷川广史(Hiroshi Tanigawa)

创造空隙的规则是非常简单的操作，空隙是通过堆叠地板和移动它们来产生的。通过移动每一层而产生的空隙会产生舒适的循环。它产生了人流，它允许人们呆在里面，走出去。这座建筑有望在城市的振兴中发挥作用。

The rule that creates voids is very simple operation, the voids are produced by piling up floors and moving them. The voids produced spontaneously by shifting each floor cause comfortable circulation. It produces flow of people and it allows people to stay in and go out. This building is expected to play a part in the activation of the city.

 First Floor Plan

一层平面图