几代人以来，客户的家庭一直通过在埼玉县中心地区的这块土地上耕种田地来维持一个农户。这个农耕区的房屋曾经有一个有序的模式，通常是由水路、农舍、棚子和田地从北到南排成一排，但在最近，新建的房屋和汽车车库已经将整体模式打乱，变成了农村中无序的郊区景观。

For generations, the family of the client has maintained a farm household by cultivating their fields in this site in the central area of Saitama prefecture. Houses in this farming area used to share an orderly pattern, commonly with a water path, a farmhouse, sheds, and fields in a row from north to south, but in recent times newly built houses and car garages have disordered the overall pattern into the sprawling of suburban landscapes in the countryside.

这些新的住宅很少与周围的自然融为一体，也很难被看作是富裕的住宅，但如果从数量上看，这种情况也可以被解释为一种花园城市，在田野间有低密度的建筑。通过对这一地区的住宅进行改造，我们试图将场地向周围的农场开放，从而创造一个植根于城市和历史发展的连续性的住宅。这不外乎意味着通过培养其自身的时间和空间来激活一个地方。

These new residences are rarely integrated into the surrounding nature and hardly seen as rich dwellings, but if seen quantitatively, the situation can also be interpreted as a sort of garden city with buildings in low density among the fields. Through the renovation of a residence in this area, we attempted to open the site toward the surrounding farms and thereby create a dwelling that is rooted in the continuity of urban and historical developments. This means nothing other than activating a place by cultivating the time and space of its own.

通过这次改造，我们重新定义了这个地方的主轴，拆除了中心的一座老房子，将农场的道路向父母的房子延伸。沿着这条新的轴线，东边是一个花园，西边是一个新的住宅，这样的空间安排使被建筑包围的花园与外面的农田无缝连接。然后，我们把新住宅前面的小路覆盖起来，作为一个凉亭，这个1.8米深的空间把房子和花园调和在一起。凉亭配有块状地板、突出的长凳、木质漆墙，以及电源插座和水龙头，这样外部区域就可以作为一个室内房间使用。它同时作为连接田野和父母的房子的方法，一个有助于花园和田野活动的大房间，以及深檐以缓冲房子的晨曦、雨水和风。

Through this renovation, we redefined the main axis of the place by demolishing an old house in the center to extend the farm road toward the parent’s house. Along this new axis are a garden on the east side and a new residence on the west side, and the spatial arrangement allows the garden surrounded by the buildings to seamlessly connect to the farmlands outside. Then we covered the path in front of the new residence so as to serve as a loggia, and the 1.8-meter deep space mediates the house and the garden together. The loggia is furnished with a block floor, a protruding bench, a wood-finished wall, as well as electrical outlets and a water tap so that the exterior zone can be used just as an interior room. It serves simultaneously as an approach to connect the fields and the parent’s house, a large room that helps activities both in the garden and the fields, and deep eaves to buffer the house from the morning sun, rain, and wind.

为了最好地平衡大花园和面向花园的大量室内空间，我们决定将这个体量做成一个1.5层的建筑。楼层平面图就像典型的农舍一样遵循网格模式，而楼层则是以螺旋式上升的方式从地面到顶部的露台，做成五个不同的高度。所有的田地、花园和楼层都是无缝连接的，螺旋式的序列顺利地从地面上的入口到上升的楼层再到露台，再从上面绕一圈回到花园和田地。在避开相邻建筑的同时，四面都有不同高度的窗户，通过这些窗户，室内空间被置于郊外的乡村景观中，从而产生了一种真实的居住感。

To best balance a large garden and plenty of interior spaces facing the garden, we decided to make the volume into a 1.5 story building. The floor plan follows a grid pattern just like the typical farmhouse, while floor levels are made in five different heights in a spiral ascending from the ground to the terrace on top. With all the fields, the garden, and the floors connected seamlessly, the spiral sequence smoothly continues from the entrance on the ground level to the ascending floors to the terrace, coming full circle back again to the garden and the fields from above. The windows are made on all sides and in different heights while avoiding adjacent buildings, through which the interior space is contextualized in the suburban countryside landscape, thereby engendering an authentic sense of dwelling.

在由框架结构独立支撑的外部层下，整个房子被设计成一个大棚，而这个大棚又可以通过增加滑动门或透明/半透明的隔断灵活地衔接成各个房间。可移动的轨道照明和月桂树胶合板制成的家具可以在DIY的基础上轻松调整。我们相信房子是可以耕种的，就像农田是可以耕种的一样，我们对这个房子进行了改造，让客户自己自由地耕种自己的住所。因此，我们把它命名为 “可耕种的房子”。

Under the external layer supported independently by a frame structure, the entire house is designed as one large shed, which in turn can be articulated into individual rooms flexibly by adding sliding doors or transparent/translucent partitions. Movable track lighting and furniture made of lauan plywood allow easy adjustment on a DIY basis. With the belief that a house is cultivatable just as farmland is, we renovated this house to let the client cultivate their own dwelling freely by themselves. Thus we named it Cultivatable House.

Architects: IN STUDIO
Area: 110 m²
Year: 2018
Photographs: Makoto Yoshida
Architects:IN STUDIO
City:Saitama
Country:Japan