在过去的60年里，随着信息技术的逐步改变，在日本，我们的住房产业已经迅速适应了它。这种对我们社会的 “强制调整 “造成了我们传统生活方式的转变，住房空间经常被称为 “nLDK”；n（私人房间的数量）L（生活）D（餐厅）K（厨房）。nLDK的概念是描述你的房子有多大的价值。n、L、D、K之间的空间灵活性和关系（私人和公共）被分离和丢失，结果，”功能 “开始独自行走。

In past 60 years, as information technology progressively changed, in Japan, our housing industry has rapidly adjusted to it. This “forced adjustment” to our society has caused a transformation of our traditional lifestyle, and housing space has been often talked by “nLDK” ; n (number of private rooms) L (living) D (dining) K (kitchen). The concept of nLDK is to describe how much value your house has. The spatial flexibility and relationship (private and public) among n, L, D, and K are separated and lost, and as a result, “function” started to walk alone.

我们对这两个房子的建议，”WITH “和 “BEAT “是试图重新考虑和重新组织nLDK的关系质量，以重新适应当前和未来的生活方式。
与之前的项目 “with “相反，这个房子位于日本神奈川的一个城市区域。在北面、东面和西面已经有3栋房子建在离地产线不到1米的地方，在南面，一个公共公园的延伸为该房产提供了良好的自然光。在密度大的情况下，近距离的环境是不可避免的，尤其是像这里80平米的小户型，客户家庭主要是要求私密性，有一种释然的感觉。

Our proposal to these two houses, “WITH” and “BEAT” are to try to re-consider and re-organize a quality of relationship of nLDK to re-adjust to a current and a future lifestyle.
Opposed to the previous project “with”, this house is located on an urban area in Kanagawa, Japan. There were already 3 houses built in the North, East, and West less than 1 meter away from a property line, and in the South, a public park extends to provide good natural light into the property. In the density situation where the proximate environment is inevitable, especially in small property like here 80sqm, the client family mainly requested the privacy with a sense of relief.

首先，我们把房子里面的 “广场 “想象成了LDK。这个广场不像是一个向自然开放的公园，而更像是意大利锡耶纳的坎波广场和罗马的圆形广场，它们是通过研究人的尺度和历史上的城市结构系统而创造的。尽管它们是人工创造的，但当我们在那里时，它们会给我们的心灵带来无形的安慰。这就像你被引导到一个内部和外部之间的幻觉…..。因此，我们开始设计如何使一个家庭在居住在这所房子里时能感觉到外面的幻觉。答案是创造一个5米的双体量广场（LDK），作为一个家庭可以分享所有的活动，如烹饪、吃饭、玩耍、学习，甚至跑步。对面的广场（LDK）被放置在房子的中心位置，私人房间（主卧室和孩子的卧室）被放置在不同的楼层，服务房间（浴室、厕所和储藏室）围绕着广场（LDK），作为外部和LDK之间的缓冲区，以稳定他们的日常生活，免受房子周围环境的影响。
二楼的阁楼空间也与无墙的双容积LDK空间相连，加强了空间的统一性。
此外，每个私人房间的方形窗户的内部立面，中间的白色螺旋楼梯，以及从高窗和阁楼空间的天窗透出的自然光，都让人感觉到一家人在外面的气氛。
由于我们必须找到一个低成本预算的解决方案，外皮必须是一种材料，并认为房子应该是一个质量和一个统一的物体。我们选择了黑色，这使得它在城市环境中显得很有存在感。
在像东京这样的近距离城市地区，人们总是在寻找私人空间，在那里他们可以隐藏和消失在外面的活动中。在这里，我们开始设计一个房子如何能够解决每天发生在外面和里面的生活活动的界限。

First, we imaged “plaza” inside of a house as LDK. This plaza is not like a park opening to nature, but more like Plaza del Campo, Siena, and Plaza del Rotunda, Rome Italy which are created by studying human scale and historical urban fabric system. Even though they are created artificially, they are bringing invisible relief into our mind when we are there. It’s like you are lead to be an illusion between inside and outside….. So we started to design how we can bring the illusion that a family can feel being outside when they are living in this house. The answer was to create a 5m double volume plaza (LDK) that exists as a family can share all activities such as cooking, eating, playing, studying, and even running. Opposite to the plaza (LDK) placed in the center body of a house, private rooms (master bedroom and kid’s bedroom) placed in different levels and service rooms (bathroom, toilet, and storage) surround the plaza (LDK) and act as a buffer zone between outside and LDK to stabilize their day life from the environment around the house.
Loft space in the second floor is also connected to the double volume LDK space with no wall and strengthens a unity of space.
In addition, the interior elevation of square windows of each private room, a white spiral stair in the center, and natural light penetrating from a high window and a skylight in the loft space lead to the atmosphere that makes a family feel being outside.
Since we had to find a solution at low cost budget, an exterior skin had to be one material, and thought the house should be a mass and a unity object. We chose black color which makes its existence appearing in the urban environment.
In the proximate urban area like Tokyo, people always look for the private space where they can hide and disappear from the outside activities. Here we started to design how a house can settle a boundary of living activities that are happening in outside and inside everyday.

Architects: studioLOOP
Area: 91 m²
Year: 2009
City：SAGAMIHARA
Country：Japan