我开始思考和练习中间区域（’engawa’，阳光房等），以气闸入口作为触发点。我在寒冷的气候中出生和成长，并在生活中继续设计，所以我开始思考中间区域的问题。在设计之初，我有一种 “要保护的中间区域 “的意识。它是人类意识从内部空间到外部空间的一个 “中间 “空间。这类似于阿尔瓦-阿尔托建筑的过程，阿尔瓦-阿尔托的建筑是针对北欧的严酷的自然环境。
I started thinking and practicing about the middle area (‘engawa’, sunroom etc.) with the airlock entrance as a trigger. I was born and grew in cold climates and continued design while living there, so I began thinking about the middle area. At the beginning of my design I had a consciousness of “a middle area to protect”. It is a space “between” the human consciousness from the inner space to the outer space. This resembles the process of Alva Aalto architecture, which was built against the Northern European severity of nature.
人们把自己置身于内部空间，从那里感受外部空间，并触摸它。气闸入口是在寒冷地区作为一个 “中间区域保护 “的建筑，在冬季防止外面的冷空气流入室内。
People put themselves in the inner space, feeling the outer space from there, and touching it. The airlock entrance was made in cold district as a “middle area to protect” architecture that prevents cold air from flowing outside into the room during the winter season.
传统的气闸入口是非常狭窄和廉价的，它被安装在建筑物上。它对改善室内环境起着重要的作用，但它的外观和空间却非常令人难过。我想，我想把它当作一种更愉快的存在。在我的私人住宅里，我们通常把入口处的气闸稍稍装得和儿童房一样大。
Conventional airlock entrance is very narrow and cheap, it is installed to stick to the building. It plays an important role to improve the indoor environment, but its appearance and space are very sad. I thought that I wanted to treat it as a more enjoyable existence. In my private house, we ordinarily made the airlock entrance slightly installed at the entrance as big as the children’s room.
然后，附近的人在那里出生，在外部和内部之间创造了一个良好的距离感。在这个被设计为 “中间区域保护 “的空间里，室内活动在夏天会泛滥。这是一个从内部走向外部的 “中间 “空间意识，它不是从外部到内部的 “中间”。
Then, vicinity was born there, a good sense of distance was created between the outside and the inside. In the space designed as ” a middle area to protect “, indoor activities will overflow in the summer. It was the “between” space consciousness towards the outside from the inside, it was not “between” from the outside to the inside.
现在，我正在考虑 “一个不仅是保护的中间区域 “的可能性。它的目标不仅是冬季的严寒，而且是通过思考从内部和外部的 “之间 “的方式，可以享受所有条件的中间区域。在这个计划中，我们在场地的中心放置了一个建筑。这是在农村地区有限的住宅区内设置小面积建筑时的一种选择，包括成本在内的条件有限。虽然根据方向和相邻的状态会出现一些层次感，但 “空地 “是平等地诞生在建筑的四面。当从内部向空地（外部）设计时，人在空地上的感觉似乎很重要。我试图从两个方向创造一个 “之间”，它不仅是一个大的屋檐，作为从内部的基地，也是一个从外部的人类的据点。在 “四个矩形 “中有 “四个区域”。建筑物中心的第一个矩形是处于最稳定状态的空间。第二个是围绕它的半地下矩形，这是一个来自气闸入口的思想和连续性空间。
Now, I am considering the possibility of “a middle area not only to protect”. It is to aim not only the severity of winter but also the middle area where you can enjoy all the conditions by thinking about the way of “between” from both inside and outside. In this plan, we placed a building in the center of the site. This is one option when setting a small footprint architecture in a limited residential section of a rural district, with limited conditions including cost. Although some hierarchy occurs depending on the direction and the neighboring state, “vacant lands” are born equally to the four sides of the building. When designing from the inside towards the vacant land (outside), the feeling of the person in the vacant land seemed important. I attempted to create a “between” from both directions that would not only be a large eaves as a base from the inside but also as a stronghold of humans from the outside. There are “four areas” in “four rectangles”. The first rectangle in the center of the building is the space in the most stable state. The second one is a semi-underground rectangle surrounding it, which is a thought and continuity space from the airlock entrance.
第三个大屋檐下的矩形空间和第四个空地的矩形空间被设计成一个多功能区，所以我决定不限制这个区域里面的功能。建筑是为了从外部（地球）的无常状态中获得某种稳定状态而诞生的存在。气闸入口是对某种有限情况的回应。我已经做了各种设计，同时改变和扩大了它。重要的是，来自双向的 “之间 “更加自由，不会限制功能。在手臂广泛展开的优雅空间下，成为人类各种活动的场所，并充满了成为一个大的中间区域的可能性。中间区域不仅是对环境的反应，也是对人类快乐的反应。
The rectangle of the third large eaves beneath space and the rectangle of the fourth vacant land were designed as a multipurpose area, so I decided not to limit the function inside this area. Architecture is an existence born to obtain certain kind of stable state from the fickle state of the outside (earth). The airlock entrance is a response to a certain limited situation. I have made various designs while changing it and enlarging it. It is important that “between” from two-way is more free and does not limit the function. The elegant space under which the arms spread widely becomes a place of various activities of human beings and is full of possibilities to become a large middle area. The middle area dose not only responses to the environment but also response to human pleasures.
Architects: Jun Igarashi Architects
Area: 120 m²
Year: 2017
Photographs: Satoshi Shigeta
City：IWAKI
Country：Japan