2012年，在日本新潟市，大量的住宅用地（高密度住宅开发区17.30公顷的540个分区）被开放出售。尽管有绿化覆盖率和房间距的制约，但这个地方给人的感觉既不特别吸引人，也不够可靠。
In 2012, an enormous amount of housing lots, 540 subdivisions in 17.30 ha of the high-density housing development area, was opened up for sale in Niigata, Japan. Even though regulated by the green coverage ratio with plenty of parks and the setback distance from the next house, the site gave us the feeling of neither especially attractive nor reliable enough, namely identically blurred, but typically GOOD.
在这样的环境下，OH! House成为540个分区中的一个，为一个四口之家而设计。客户的三个要求非常的明确而直截了当：花园必须是开放式的，书架要摆满大量的书，厨房要封闭。
Within such an environment, OH! House is planned for a family of four in one of 540 subdivisions. Three requirements from the client are clear and straightforward; to list, Garden to make their life open possible, Bookshelf to be filled with a large amount of books, Closed kitchen room.
在一楼，入口的灰泥地板交叉在房子的中心，旁边是一个供两个孩子居住的房间。这种与外部的无缝连接不仅让孩子们使用他们的私人空间，也让周围的空间没有任何边界。
On the ground floor, entrance mortar floor crosses at the center of the house, and a room for two children is placed next to it. This seamless connection to the outside lets children use not only their private room but also the space all around without any boundaries.
在二楼，起居室被刻意地分为了几个小房间，而不是一个大房间。客厅、餐厅、厨房和卫生间排成一排，从侧廊可以自由进出，相互之间可以轻轻分开。通过在客厅、餐厅和厨房之间摆满他们最喜欢的书，特色的12米长的书架和工作柜台沿着侧廊成为了住宅的核心。
On the first floor, deliberately LDK is divided into small rooms instead of making a large one-room. Living room, dining room, kitchen room and toilet are arranged in a row with open access from side corridor, and thus gently divided each other. By filling in between Living room, Dining room and Kitchen room with their favorite books, the characteristic 12 meters long bookshelf and work counter along the side corridor have become a heart of the house.
在起居室的房间外面种植了各种树木，一直延伸到一楼，这样就形成了“房子周围的花园”。一张水泥板凳从地板一直伸向狭窄的小花园。在住宅内外种植的绿树的映衬下，在这个高密度的住宅环境中为主人提供了一小块难得的私密空间。住宅周围绿植向白色屋顶伸展，站在二楼的窗户前就能欣赏到伸上来的绿叶，给室内也增添了一丝绿意。站在房间窗前面对花园的一面时，顿时被绿意盎然的树木包围，明亮、硕大的窗户完全能使人们触摸到伸上来的枝叶。
A variety of trees reaching up to the first floor are planted outside the separate rooms of LDK, so that “Garden around the House” is created.A concrete bench protrudes from the floor slab into the narrow garden. It is screened by the trees planted between the inner and outer facade, creating a pocket of privacy for the residents in an area of high-density housing. Surrounding tree branches stretch towards the white roof, offering views of the foliage from the upper-level windows.Facing the garden and being surrounded by richly grown trees, large windows enable us to touch the trees from above.
此外，在整个房子上还设计了一顶“大帽子”，这个“大帽子”在一定程度上为室内外创造了一个模糊的缓冲空间，它调解和保护房子免受该地区恶劣气候的影响：在该地域冬夏多雪多雨，春秋寒风凛冽的严酷气候下，既保护了建筑，又保证了邻里间私密性。倾斜的白色天篷出挑并悬垂到铺着白色石块的小路和一块小面积的植被上，满足了客户对花园的需要。这种木屋顶结构拉低了整个住宅的层高，而且还为两个阳台遮挡部分光线，避免阳光直射，重要的是为主人提供了隐私，限制了室外往室内看的可能。
Furthermore, a big hat put on the entire house including “Garden around the House” creates Buffer Space: vague territory in between inside and outside, which mediates and protects the house from harshness of the climate in the region: heavy rain and snow fall; sunlight in summer; cold wind in winter, and the privacy from neighbors. The angled white canopy, which overhangs a walkway laid with white paving stones and a small area of planting, fulfils one of the clients' requirements of a garden for the house.The wooden roof structure is pulled down over the top storey of the house, shading two terraces from the elements and restricting views of the interior space.
这就是OH! House的设计目标:房子会是什么样子，人们将如何生活，以及房子如何在模糊的身份中定位自己。
This is what we aimed to achieve in OH! House: what the house could be, how people would live, and eventually, how a house can position itself in the sea of blurred identity.
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项目信息：
建筑设计事务所：东海林健建筑设计事务所
面积：107.7 m²
年份：2013
项目设计： Minoru Sato
灯光设计： Yutaka Inaba
摄影：Koichi Satake
Project credits:
Architects : Takeru Shoji Architects
Area : 107.7 m²
Year : 2013
Structural design: Minoru Sato
Lighting design: Yutaka Inaba
Photographs: Koichi Satake.
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