架构师提供的文本描述。一艘赤裸裸的白色船，在熙熙攘攘的五彩缤纷的海洋中间航行。

Text description provided by the architects. A stark white ship that sails in the middle of the bustling sea of colors. 

 © Koichi Torimura

c.Torimura幸一

漂浮在海洋上的船突然出现在一个购物中心。它唤起了一种感觉，不是一个度假区，而是一个充满异国情调的角落在某个南方国家。一种偶然通过这个地区的船的感觉。

The ship floating on the ocean suddenly appears in a shopping center. It evokes a feeling not of a resort area, but of an exotic corner of a town in some southern country. A feeling of a ship that comes across this area by chance.

 © Koichi Torimura

c.Torimura幸一

它让你想象当船头穿过大海时，波浪会飞溅，这是一座直径9.7米，深度21.6米的铅笔建筑。大船舱是为西南角的阳台设计的。当地板从底部向上移动时，这些洞会变大。当你从底部向上看船头时，你可以得到同样的图像。

It makes you imagine the wave splashes that occur when the bow heads-on through the sea.  It is a pencil building of 9.7 meter width and 21.6 meter depth. Big holds are designed for the balconies at the southwest corner. These holes become bigger as the floors go upwards from the bottom.  You can have the same image when you look up the bow from under it. 

 © Koichi Torimura

c.Torimura幸一

它简单，整洁，干净。你仰望着光滑而纯净的白色外墙。这让你想起了南方国家的一种凉爽的生活方式，或者是一次旅行，以及在热带地区寻求空气变化的日子。

It is simple, neat and clean. You look up the smooth and pure white exterior wall. This reminds you of a cool life style in some southern country, or of being on a trip, and spending days at a tropical land in a quest of change of air. 

这是一座出租公寓，建于大阪的茨城县，有27万人口。这个城镇不仅是一个住宅区，而且现在要求发展工业区，供大学和工业公司的研究和开发设施使用。因此，作为一个工业城镇，人口也在增加。这个建筑建在购物区，这个镇的中心，就在JR车站前面。

It is an apartment house for rent built at Ibaraki-city in Osaka, a town with a population of 270,000. This town is not only a residential one, but it is now calling for the development of industrial areas for research and development facilities of universities and industrial firms. Therefore, the population is also increasing as an industrial town. This architecture is built at the shopping district, the center of this town, which is located in front of the JR station.

 © Koichi Torimura

c.Torimura幸一

这是一座由10层钢筋混凝土结构组成的建筑，包括：一楼的租户空间，2-4层为单身人士提供的一套房间公寓，5-10层为家庭提供的2 LDK和3 LDK。

It is a building of 10 stories of RC structure consisting of:a tenant spaces at the first floor, one room apartment houses for singles at 2-4 floors, and 2LDK and 3LDk for families at 5-10 floors. 

 © Koichi Torimura

c.Torimura幸一

周围的建筑物有4到5层高。因此，这座建筑不应该有一个大的狭缝(开口部分)，每一层的开放空间都会随着楼层的升高而变宽，你可以看到更广阔的天空。这一想法反映在这座建筑的设计中。

The surrounding buildings are 4-5 stories height. So it is not proper to have a big slit (opening section) for this building.  The open space of each floor gets wider as the floor level becomes higher, and you can get a wider sky view. This idea is reflected in the design of this building. 

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