2012年，在日本新泻，有大量的住房用地，540个分区，占地17.30公顷的高密度住房开发区域，被开放出售。尽管在绿化覆盖率的规范下，有大量的公园和与隔壁房屋的后退距离，但该地块给我们的感觉是既没有特别的吸引力，也不够可靠，即相同的模糊，但典型的GOOD。

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.

在这样一个环境中，OH! 房屋是为540个小区中的一个四口之家规划的。客户的三个要求是明确而直接的；要列出，花园要使他们的生活开放成为可能，书架要装上大量的书，封闭的厨房间。

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.

在底层，入口处的砂浆地板在房子的中心交叉，旁边放置了一个两个孩子的房间。这种与外界的无缝连接让孩子们不仅可以使用他们的私人房间，还可以使用周围没有任何界限的空间。

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.

在一楼，特意将LDK分成几个小房间，而不是做成一个大的单间。客厅、餐厅、厨房和卫生间被安排成一排，从侧边的走廊可以进入，从而缓缓地将彼此分开。通过在客厅、餐厅和厨房之间摆放他们喜欢的书籍，沿着侧廊的12米长的特色书架和工作台成为房子的核心。

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LDK的各个房间外种植了各种树木，一直到一楼，这样就形成了 “环屋花园”。面向花园，被茂盛的树木所包围，大窗户使我们的生活变得开放，甚至可以从上面触摸到树木。

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. Facing to the garden and being surrounded by richly grown trees, large windows enable us to make our life open possible, and even to touch the trees from above.

此外，整个房子包括 “房子周围的花园 “的大帽子创造了缓冲空间：在内部和外部之间的模糊区域，它调解和保护房子免受该地区恶劣气候的影响：大雨和降雪；夏天的阳光；冬天的冷风，以及与邻居的隐私。因此，OH! 住宅在高密度住宅区中同时获得了安全和完全开放的生活，并具有季节感。

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. Consequently, OH! House is obtained simultaneously secure and fully opened life with the sense of seasons in the middle of high-density residential area.

LDK的独立房间和它们之间的空间；季节的变化和时间的流逝；12米长的工作台面，沿走廊的书架和大量的书籍；在房子的大帽子下，人们与阳光和雨水一起生活的室内的模糊性；里面就像外面一样，或者相反，OH! 房子里充满了这样多的机会，我们会绕着它们走。在走动的途中，有客厅、餐厅、舒适的沙发和喜欢的书。这就是我们的目标：房子可以是什么，人们将如何生活，以及最终，房子可以如何在模糊的身份的海洋中定位。

The separate rooms of LDK and the space in between them; the change of seasons and the passage of time; 12 meters long work counter, bookshelf along the corridor and a lot of books; The vagueness of interiority that people live together with sunlight and rain under the big hat of the house; Inside just like Outside or vice versa, OH! House is filled up with such plenty of opportunities and we would walk around them. On the way of walking around, there are Living room, Dining room, a cozy couch and favorite books. This is what we aimed to achieve here: what the house could be, how people would live, and eventually, how a house can position itself in the sea of blurred identity.

Architects: Takeru Shoji Architects
Area: 107 m²
Year: 2013
Photographs: Koichi Satake
Structural Design: M’S structure, Minoru Sato
Lighting Design: FOR LIGHTS, Yutaka Inaba
City：CHUO WARD
Country：Japan