架构师提供的文本描述。博艺画廊位于北京东城北街，是中国文化部的一项改造工程。这部分城市过去是属于这个部门的宿舍区，由称为“圆柱体”的旧公寓组成。就在其中一栋建筑里，我们的画廊已经被插进了地面。这种砖混结构在内部功能上和空间上都比较简单，外部缺乏假定的能量。

Text description provided by the architects. Located on the north street of the east imperial city of Beijing, BOYI gallery is a renovation project for the culture department of China. This urban part used to be a dormitory area belonging to the department and consisted of old apartments called "cylinder". Just within one of these buildings our gallery has been plugged into the ground. This kind of brick-concrete structure is simple inside functionally and spatially and lack of supposed energy outside.

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该遗址面向皇家遗址公园，是为旧区环境改造而建造的。这些条件永远不能满足一个充满活动的画廊的需要，因此必须找到新的途径来打破现有内部空间的限制，并在街道空间与街道空间之间建立互动关系。这是“样本”建筑转世的关键。

The site is facing the imperial remains park constructed for the sake of old district environment renovation. These conditions can never fulfill the need of an art gallery full of activities, so new approaches must been found to break the restrictions of existing inner space and interactions should be created between street space and it. That is the key to the reincarnation of the "specimen" building.

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现有的计划有几个房间之间的结构墙，几乎是不可能改变，它是传统的小方窗环绕建筑，这些都是真正的缺点，一个流畅的画廊空间。现在，我们必须设法解决所有这些问题，仅仅在1.5米的空间之间的海拔和步行的方式，建立之间的帝国遗迹公园和它微妙的对话。

The existing plan has several rooms separated by structure walls which are almost impossible to alter and it is the traditionally small square windows that wrap around the building, these really are disadvantages for a fluent gallery space. Now we have to try to solve all these problems just within the mere 1.5m space between elevations and the pedestrian way to establish subtle dialogue between imperial remains park and it. 

我们将建筑立面与距其1.5米的50毫米预冲孔金属面板统一起来，形成了一个灰色的整体空间，可容纳画廊入口、玻璃咖啡盒、展览走廊和竹子庭院等功能。确保咖啡箱和走廊内的顾客可以看到公园景观，大楼和街道之间产生的过渡空间同时也为行人提供了一个视觉磁石。

We unify the architecture elevation with 50mm pre-punched metal panels at a distance of 1.5m from it that forms the a gray space of totality accommodating functions like gallery entrance, glass coffee box ,exhibition corridor and the bamboo courtyard. Ensuring the park view of the costumers inside the coffee box and gallery corridor, the transitional space generated between the building and the street acts like a visual magnet for the pedestrian at the same time. 

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皮肤使用半透明的材料，其颜色是泥腐金属红色，这是根据浅红色油漆的老建筑，形成一个微妙的颜色变化，与旧的地区环境。在预冲孔和腐烂的金属壁与内部的功能空间之间建立了精细的空间定义。这仅仅是1.5米的增加，创造了一个新的建筑实体，使画廊的空间充满了艺术特色，并给周围的环境带来了生命。

The skin uses translucent material whose color is the mud rotted-metal red which is according to the light red paint of the old buildings that form a subtle chromatic variation in harmony with the old district environment. Delicate definition of space is set up between the pre punched and rotted metal wall and the functional space inside. It is just the 1.5m addition that creates a new architecture entity, makes the gallery space full of art features and bring life to the surroundings.

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