架构师提供的文本描述。该遗址位于一个安静的居民区，土地被分成小块，小木屋和公寓在街道上随意矗立。这是一个非常常见的郊区街景在日本，没有任何具体的功能作为设计线索。

Text description provided by the architects. The site is situated in a quiet residential neighborhood where land is divided into small lots and tiny aging wooden houses and apartments stand randomly along the streets. It is a very common suburban streetscape in Japan, without any specific feature to serve as a clue for design.

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我们的客户提出的要求非常温和简单：他们要求我们提供充足的自然通风、照明和隐私。我们决定设计一套封闭的庭院式住宅方案，但与此同时，我们希望在这种郊区环境下，在房屋和街景之间建立更好的关系。

The requests from our client were very modest and simple: they asked us to provide sufficient natural ventilation, light and privacy. We decided to work with an enclosed courtyard house plan, but at the same time we wanted to establish better relationship between house and streetscape in this suburban context. 

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我们的解决办法是穿过街道上的混凝土墙，在一些地方开洞。在这里，人们可以从街道的开口部分看到树木和白色的油漆墙，居民可以通过它们看到和听到街道上正在发生的事情。

Our solution was to cut through the concrete walls along the streets to make openings in some parts. Here people can partially see trees and white painted walls through these openings from the street, and residents can see and hear what’s happening on the streets through them. 

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混凝土采用胶合板浇筑。混凝土墙的粗糙质地帮助房屋融入周围灰白色的街道景观。一个缓坡沿着工地的东侧，造成800毫米的地面高度差异。

Concrete was cast using plywood forms. Rough texture of the concrete walls helps the house to blend in the surrounding grayish streetscape. A gentle slope runs along the east side of the site, creating 800mm height difference in ground levels. 

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房子是由两个联锁的‘旗杆’形状的内部和外部空间组成，而‘旗杆’的意思是一个较大的体积(‘旗子’)在一边，纤细的体积(‘杆’)附着在它。为了满足沿坡的高度差异，将“杆”部分的楼面水平降低了半层，从而使房屋有一个具有四层不同楼层的跳楼部分。

The house is composed of two interlocking ‘flagpole’ shaped interior and exterior spaces, while ‘flagpole’ meaning a larger volume (‘flag)’ on one side with slender volume (‘pole’) attached to it. In order to meet the height difference along the slope, floor level of the ‘pole’ part is lowered by half floor level, and as a result the house has a skipped-floor section with four different floor levels. 

外部空间中的“杆”部分的地板水平以同样的方式进行调整，在不同的高度上形成梯田和庭院。因此，我们设置了八个不同的楼层内外。每个室内空间都是由不同层次的外部露台或庭院松散地连接起来的。居民从一个地方移动到另一个地方沿跳跃的走廊和梯田，同时享受丰富的空间序列沿途。

Floor level of ‘pole’ part in exterior space is adjusted in the same way, creating terraces and court at different height. As a result we set eight different floor levels inside and outside. Each of interior space is loosely connected by exterior terrace or court at different levels. Residents move from one place to another along skipped corridor and terraces, while enjoying rich spatial sequence along the way.