架构师提供的文本描述。不仅仅是在这样一种基于自然的短暂性的文化背景下，能够在今天的东京中心与季节共存才是真正的奢侈。

Text description provided by the architects. Not only in the context of a culture so based on the transitoriness of nature, being able to live with the seasons in the middle of today’s Tokyo is true luxury.

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(C)樱口茂子(Hiroyasu Sakaguchi)

这座私人住宅的立足点是一个城市缺口，这是一条22米深、但只有4.7米宽的狭长地带，坐落在东京市中心的建筑群之间。当简报要求有一个开阔的居住空间，在城市的范围内呼吸是可能的，我们提出了一个外部建筑，要求它周围的空间延伸到它的极限。

The site for this private residence is an urban gap left over from relentless subdivisioning, a 22m deep yet only 4.7m wide strip perched between built masses in central Tokyo. When the brief asked for a wide open living space where breathing within the confines of the city was possible, we proposed an architecture of the exterior that claims the space around it by extending beyond its limits.

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(C)樱口茂子(Hiroyasu Sakaguchi)

穿过这座建筑，沿着三个层次交替的方向呈现出明显不同的气氛。由于没有分隔的房间，每一层都能感受到和强调这些场地不同寻常的深度。柔软的面料与混凝土的硬度相抗衡，增加了层层模糊的空间细微差别。

Moving through the building reveals strikingly different atmospheres along the three levels’ alternating orientations. As there are no partitioned rooms, the sites’ unusual depth is felt and emphasised on each level. Soft fabrics countering the hardness of the concrete add layers of ambiguous spatial nuances.

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(C)樱口茂子(Hiroyasu Sakaguchi)

Takadanobaba的房子背离了将住房理解为封闭的概念：城市外部继续以开放的、相互连接的空间形式生活在外部的内部。

The House in Takadanobaba is a departure from understanding housing as enclosing: The urban exterior continues in an open fold of fluidly interconnected spaces for living in the interior of the exterior.

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(C)樱口茂子(Hiroyasu Sakaguchi)

概念的开放性是通过将结构刚性分解为交替销连接的释放作用来实现的。地板-墙壁-天花板折叠成为一个结构上连续的外壳，分开和一起由几个难以置信的细钢柱：直径80毫米直径在第一层和第二层，60毫米在三楼。结构构件采用18米长的结构构件来抵消地震力的横向扭转。

The conceptual openness is achieved by dissolving structural rigidity into a liberating play of alternating pin connections. The floor-wall-ceiling folds become a structurally continuous shell that is held both apart and together by a few incredibly fine steel columns: 80mm diameter on the first and second, 60mm on the third floor. Lateral torsion by seismic forces is countered by the structural composition’s using the building’s length of 18 metres.

 © Hiroyasu Sakaguchi

(C)樱口茂子(Hiroyasu Sakaguchi)

在重新定义内外，一个领域的褶皱可能创造透水的连续性，在一个城市的缺口，使我们摆脱窒息的庞大的城市环境。

In redefining inside and outside, a field of folds might create pervious continuities in a city of gaps freeing us from the suffocating massiveness of our urban environments.