架构师提供的文本描述。该项目占地约46平方米，位于东京的一个高密度住宅区.以前，这个网站上有一间独立的房子。在东京，这种大小的房子并不少见，通常被称为“小房子”。这种类型的房子是核家庭的梦想。

Text description provided by the architects. The project site, only about 46 square meters, is in a high-density residential area of Tokyo. Before, there was a detached house on this site. In Tokyo, this size of house is not rare, and is normally called "Small house". This type of house was the dream for a nuclear household.

最近，在日本，核家庭正在减少，而一人家庭却在增加.我们把旧的核心家庭梦想调整成今天的一人家庭现实。我们在这个地方建了一个小公寓。地下室、阁楼和一楼是业主的房子。她一个人住在那里，她把二楼租给一个人。

Recently, the nuclear household is decreasing, while a one-person household is increasing in Japan. We have taken the old nuclear household dream and adjusted it to today's one-person's household reality. We built a small apartment on this site. Basement floor, loft, and the first floor are the owner's house. She lives alone there, and she rents the second floor for one person.

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.Hirouki Hirai

业主要求提供起居室、餐厅、厨房、卧室、客房、露台、车库、浴缸、卫生间、储藏室和租来的房间。首先，我们觉得在这座小建筑里，我们无法容纳所有这些房间。在这种情况下，我们通常遵循一个标准的程序，通过建立一个多用途的房间来减少房间的数量。

The owner requested a living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, guest room, terrace, garage, bath, toilet, storage and rented room. First, we felt that we couldn't fit all these rooms in this small building. In these cases, we usually follow a standard procedure, reducing the number of rooms by making one multi purpose room.

 © Hiroyuki Hirai

.Hirouki Hirai

这一次，我们尝试了另一种方法，因为我们听取了业主的以下意见：“我希望我的家舒适。”我们缩小了每个房间的大小，这样我们就可以把它们全部安置在房子里，创造一个舒适的居住空间。

This time, we tried another approach, because we heard the following opinion from the owner "I want my home to be cozy." We reduced the size of each room so we could fit them all in the house creating a comfortable and cozy living space.

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