架构师提供的文本描述。历史悠久的耶鲁蒸汽洗衣房结构有着丰富的物理历史，它写在拱形地板结构中，它的奇怪间隔的地板框架和它的坑标混凝土和砖块。这一片时间赋予它的空间一个字符，一旦抹去，就不能再创造。项目设计认为，这一特性是重要的，应予以保留，新的干预措施应尽可能少、清晰和离散。这个项目是一个人不做的事情，也是一个人所做的事情。

Text description provided by the architects. The historic Yale Steam Laundry structure possesses a rich physical history that is written in its vaulted floor structure, its oddly-spaced floor framing and in its pock-marked concrete and brick. This patina of time imparts a character upon the space it encloses that once erased, cannot be recreated. The project design asserts that this character is important and should be preserved, and that new interventions should be minimal, legible and discrete. The project is as much about what one doesn’t do as it is about what one does.

 © Nathan Kirkman

内森·柯克曼

该提案奉行选择性干预战略，力求最大限度地保存现有的物理历史及其赋予空间的特性，并将新项目定义为两个平行现实的总和：现有结构及其伴随性质和新的方案干预措施，插入现有结构，如家具。

The proposal pursues a strategy of select intervention that seeks to maximize the preservation of the existing physical history and the character it confers on the space, and defines the new project as the sum total of two parallel realities: the existing structure with its attendant character and the new programmatic interventions, inserted into the existing structure like furniture.

 © Nathan Kirkman

内森·柯克曼

在新元素符合现有结构的地方，区别很明显：在公共场所(入口、大堂、楼梯、运动室)插入热轧漆钢板，与釉面白砖隔开，形成接待台、桥梁、楼梯。在上面的住宅单位，厨房/浴室核心覆盖桦木磨坊被插入到现有的外壳，以最低限度地将建筑物转换为它的新用途。附属楼一楼同时用作大楼大堂和门廊。一堵钢板墙将公共区域与房子后面(办公室、储藏室等)隔开。

Where new elements meet existing structure, the distinction is pronounced: hot rolled lacquered steel plate insertions in the public areas (entry, lobby, stair, exercise room) stand apart from the glazed white brick to form reception desks, bridges, stairs. In the residential units above, kitchen/bathroom cores clad in birch millwork are inserted into the existing shell to minimally convert the building to its new use. The ground floor of the annex serves simultaneously as building lobby and clubroom. A plate steel wall separates the public areas from back of house (offices, pantry, etc.).

 © Nathan Kirkman

内森·柯克曼