架构师提供的文本描述。这是一个现有房屋的内部装修工程，在房子中间安装了一个由甲板木材制成的盒子。

Text description provided by the architects. This is a total interior renovation project of an existing house, installing a box made of deck lumber in the middle of the house.

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c.Yano Toshiyuki Yano

现有的房子有17年的历史，两层楼高，四卧室木结构，位于半地下车库的顶部.它可以作为家，但我们不知道如何和谁的房间布局。

The existing house is 17 year-old, two-story, 4-bedroom wooden structure on top of semi-underground garage. It could serve as home, but we could not see how and for whom the room layout was made.

 © Toshiyuki Yano

c.Yano Toshiyuki Yano

这所房子的新主人是一个三口之家；一对夫妇有一个孩子。在房子中央安装了一个大厅般的空间，由一个大盒子构成，它为妻子经营的脊椎诊所、夫妻的卧室、入口处、楼上的起居室和楼上的卡拉OK室提供了一扇门。由于各种用途的房间被重新安置在现有的房子中，房子的组成变得更像一个复杂的设施。从某种意义上说，把交通线路和每个房间连接起来的类似盒子的空间，就是交通线路的开关箱。

New owner of the house is a family of three; a couple with a child. Installed in the center of the house is a hall-like space made by a large box which gives a doorway to chiropractic clinic run by the wife, to the bedroom of the couple, to the entrance of the house, to living and dining room upstairs, and to karaoke room in basement. As rooms of various purposes were relocated in the existing house, the composition of the house became more like that of a complex facility. The box-like space which brings together traffic lines and connects each room is, in a sense, switch box of traffic lines.

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c.Yano Toshiyuki Yano

这个箱子是用甲板木做的，它的顶部有很大的中间空间，让阳光倾泻到楼下。盒子的两侧是较小的间隔，以避免凝视，但足够大，让声音。它允许松散的空间连续性从二楼到地下室，同时，空间调整，以保持隐私时，有客人。在二楼的起居室里，盒子的顶部达到了一个适合做家务的柜台的高度。倾斜天花板上的高侧窗吸收充足的阳光，盒子的顶部可以用作日光室。吊钩可以放置在甲板木材之间，以悬挂图片，吊架或树叶植物，任何我们喜欢的地方。房子里几乎没有花园的外部空间，用盒子在室内介绍各种生活场景是我们面临的挑战。

The box is made of deck lumber, whose top side has large interspace between lumber and let sunlight pour downstairs. On the sides of the box are smaller interspaces to avoid the gaze but large enough to let through the voices. It allows loose spatial continuity from the second floor to the basement and at the same time, interspaces are adjusted to keep privacy when there are guests. In the living-dining room on the second floor, the top of the box comes up to the height of a counter suitable for housework. High side windows on the sloped ceiling take in ample sunshine and the top of the box can be used as sunroom. Hooks can be placed between the deck lumber to hang pictures, hangers or foliage plants anywhere we like. There is almost no exterior space for garden within the premises, and it was our challenge to introduce various living scenes indoors by using the box.

 © Toshiyuki Yano

c.Yano Toshiyuki Yano

改造前的旧房是房地产市场上许多典型的房屋之一。在这次改造中，我们利用混凝土基础的隔音性能，在地下室建造了卡拉OK房。我们看到利用这些财产创造新的生活环境的可能性。

The existing house before the renovation was one of many typical houses in the real estate market. In this renovation, we made Karaoke room in the basement, taking advantage of the sound insulation properties of concrete foundation. We see possibilities in creating new living environment by taking advantage of such properties.