架构师提供的文本描述。这座建筑坐落在墨西哥城一个居民区的一条小街上。这条街虽然位于住宅区，但离繁忙的商业街很近。这样，建筑就可以沉浸在宁静的街道中，同时也要面对遍布整个商业区的城市异化。

Text description provided by the architects. The building stands on a small street in a residential neighborhood in Mexico City. Although it is located in a residential area, the street is very close to a busy commercial thoroughfare. This allows the building to be immersed in the peace and quiet of its street, and at the same time confront the urban alienation that pervades the commercial zone.

 © Fernando Cordero

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该项目的目的是形成一个功能块，能够在其背景下温和地插入自己，并溶解或稀释从其城市环境中收到的信息的冲击。

The aim of the project was to form a functional block capable of inserting itself gently in its context and dissolving or diluting the onslaught of information received from its urban setting.

 © Fernando Cordero

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这座建筑的边界是一个单一的家庭住宅的西部和便利店的东部和南部。该建筑项目包括24辆汽车的地下停车场，在两个街区内可容纳13套公寓，一个位于停车场前部(面向北)，另一个位于后方(面向南)。这两个街区是连接在每一层的区域，包括一个大厅，楼梯井，和电梯集群。后座有五层，前排有四层，这一条件允许它的屋顶被用作特殊活动的平台。公寓的内部空间尽可能自由，留下未完成的空间，让每个居住者都能创造出适合他们的需要和喜好的内部空间。

The building is bounded by a single family home to the west and a convenience store to the east and south. The architectural program includes underground parking for 24 cars, and accommodates 13 apartments in two blocks, one located at the front of the lot (facing north) and the other at the rear (facing south). The two blocks are connected at each level by an area comprising a lobby, stairwells, and the elevator cluster. The rear block has five levels and the front block has four, a condition that allows its rooftop to be used as a terrace for special events. The interior spaces of the apartments were left as free as possible and left unfinished, to allow each occupant to create interiors that suit their needs and likings.

 © Fernando Cordero

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材料的选择仅限于三种成分：一种是中性的，提供了与城市环境的必要联系(裸露的混凝土和灰泥)；一种是温暖的，使居住者与自然有联系(机械木)；一种是色彩鲜艳的，使项目充满风味和欢快(吹玻璃和绿色环氧地板)。

The selection of materials was limited to three ingredients: one neutral, which provides the needed connection with the urban environment (exposed concrete and gray stucco); one warm, which gives the inhabitant a connection with nature (machiche wood); and one colorful, imbuing the project with flavor and cheerfulness (blown glass and green epoxy flooring).

 © Fernando Cordero

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门面由7，723个玻璃球体组成，由技工在哈利斯科瓜达拉哈拉的一个车间制作。每个球体由EPDM(一种用于汽车工业的橡胶，具有优异的耐候性)的圆盘支撑，然后通过常规螺母将其固定在不锈钢电缆上。每根缆索最多可承载27个球体，其顶部固定在建筑物的混凝土结构上，底部则固定在结构钢构件上。

The façade is made up of 7,723 blown glass spheres made by craftsmen at a workshop in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Each sphere is supported by a disk of EPDM (a kind of rubber used in the automobile industry, with excellent resistance to weathering), which in turn is fastened to a stainless steel cable by means of a conventional nut. Each cable carries a maximum of 27 spheres, which are fastened at the top to the concrete structure of the building and at the bottom to structural steel elements.

 © Fernando Cordero

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这一团球体，既满足了居民自我反省的目的，又软化了来自城市环境的视觉体验。此外，它还显示出优异的耐候性；然而，它提出的主要问题是清洁，这是手工进行的，是传统外墙的两倍时间。

This mass of spheres fulfills the purpose of creating certain introspection for the inhabitants while at the same time softens the visual experience coming from the urban setting. Also, it has shown excellent resistance to weathering; however, the main problem it has presented is its cleaning, which is done by hand and is twice as time consuming as a conventional façade.

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