架构师提供的文本描述。Q是一个七层混合用途的住宅，办公室和商业发展，在小意大利区的市中心圣地亚哥。该建筑整合了所有这些用途，在一个小50x200英尺的填充地，同时也拯救了最古老的家在小意大利。

Text description provided by the architects. The Q is a seven-story mixed-use residential, office, and commercial development in the Little Italy district of downtown San Diego. The building integrates all of these uses within a small 50x200 foot infill lot while also saving the oldest home in Little Italy.

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Q提倡绿色的现场工作环境，不需要汽车.这一美妙的城市社区让许多房客完全避免使用汽车，因为他们的住宅也成为他们的办公室，而邻接的直接需求满足了他们日常生活的任何需求。27套公寓以上的底层有高性能的地板和天花板玻璃遮蔽的水平鳍，提供难以置信的景观市中心圣地亚哥和海湾，同时降低热量。可操作的窗户提供充分的交叉通风，消除了空调的需要.各种各样的单元大小范围从工作室到7000平方英尺的顶层公寓，建筑师既是开发商又是承包商，住在相邻的办公空间并步行到隔壁工作。

The Q promotes a green live-work environment, the absence of necessity for automobile. This wonderful urban neighborhood leaves many tenants avoiding the use of the car altogether as their residences also become their offices and the adjacency of immediate needs fulfills any of their day to day requirements. The 27 apartments above the ground floor have high performance floor to ceiling glass shaded by horizontal fins that provide incredible views to downtown San Diego and the bay while lowering heat gain. Operable windows provide adequate cross–ventilation, eliminating the need for air-conditioning. A diverse array of unit sizes range from studios to a 7,000 sqft penthouse the architect serving as both the developer and contractor lives in and walks to work next door in the adjacent office space.

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除了绿色的生活方式外，该建筑还在屋顶上集成了132个光伏电池板，以提供100%的建筑物公用区域电力需求。而垂直鳍在建筑物的背面提供自然照明白天和发光的裂缝，在夜间，甚至邻近的建筑物物业线。与大多数公寓楼不同的是，内部走廊自然通风，大大降低了整体建筑消耗，而混凝土结构则增加了热质量，使建筑物的温度保持在更稳定的水平，而不需要大量保温。混凝土是完工的、尽可能完整的表面，使施工过程中的废物不可避免地减少，VOCs几乎被完全消除。结构成为完成，完成成为结构。

In addition to a green lifestyle, the building integrates 132 photovoltaic panels on the roof to provide 100% of the buildings common area power requirements. While vertical fins on the backside of the building provide natural lighting during the day and glowing slits at night addressing even the adjacent building property line. Unlike most apartment buildings internal hallways are naturally ventilated, reducing overall building consumption dramatically, while concrete construction increases thermal mass keeping the building at a much more consistent temperature without the need for considerable insulation. The concrete being the finished and complete surface wherever possible allowed waste during construction to be inevitably reduced and VOCs were almost completely eliminated. Structure becomes finish and finish becomes structure.

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1889年的哥特式维多利亚式建筑是历史上指定的Pray房屋，它是小意大利主干道上的一个关键要素。现有住宅的这种利用和修复，再加上新建筑底层的敏感性质，使其与现有的邻里结构形成了一种联系。沿着这一层，圣地亚哥最新的顶级餐厅，一家获奖的咖啡店，一家服装和艺术商店，最后一家新的获奖面馆与街道畅通无阻。街道正面的活力贯穿了建筑的其余部分。

The historically designated Pray houses, a 1889 Gothic Victorian structure was a key element along the main artery of Little Italy. This utilization and restoration of the existing home, along with the sensitive nature of the ground floor of the new building, create a bond with the existing fabric of the neighborhood. Along this ground level San Diego’s newest top rated restaurant, an award winning coffee shop, a clothing and art store, and finally a new award winning noodle house flow freely with the street. The invigorating energy of the street frontage carries through the rest of the building.

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不仅仅是一座建筑，Q已经成为圣地亚哥生活方式的商标。“Q”这个名字来源于JamesBonds‘Q，他拥有所有最新和最伟大的小工具，有效地集成到我们每天都知道和使用的现有设备中。这座建筑的目标就是变成那样。

More than just a building, the Q has become a trademark of San Diego lifestyle. The name ‘the Q’ derives from James Bonds’ Q, the man with all of the latest and greatest gadgets efficiently integrated into existing devices we know and use everyday. The goal of the building was to become just that.

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