一川美里（山梨县）遭受了当代日本地区的许多典型问题。随着人口的减少，郊区化和无序扩张的加剧，城市核心已经失去了活力。最初，该市遵循紧凑的建筑配置，从车站延伸出一条商业街。如今，火车使用者急剧减少，小商店几乎消失了，因为郊区的大商店吸收了所有的商业活动。人们的日常生活已经完全依赖汽车，停车空间已经占据了商店和房屋周围的外部空间。由于很少有人在街上行走，这种以汽车为基础的生活方式阻碍了人们自发的相遇，削弱了社区感。
Ichikawamisato (Yamanashi Prefecture) suffers many of the typical problems of contemporary regional Japan. With a declining population and an increasing suburbanization and sprawl, the urban core has lost its vitality. Originally the municipality followed a compact built-up configuration, with a shopping street extending from the station. Nowadays train users have decreased dramatically, and the small shops have almost disappeared as big box stores in the outskirts absorbed all commercial activities. People have come to depend completely on the car for their everyday life and parking space has taken up exterior space around shops and houses. With few people walking on the streets, this car-based lifestyle discourages spontaneous encounters and weakens the sense of community.
当地一家理发店找到我们，希望更新和改善他的业务。在有限的预算下，我们提出了一个干预措施，它可能会增加顾客和改善企业的形象，但也会积极地为社区作出贡献。我们将外部空间重组为一个更紧凑的停车场配置，向社区提供一个公共露台。
We were approached by a local barber shop to renew and improve his business. With a limited budget we proposed an intervention that could potentially increase customers and improve the image of the business, but also actively contribute to the community. We reorganized the exterior space into a more compact parking configuration to offer a public terrace to the community.
该露台的设计反映了现有白色外墙的木质图案，感觉是现有建筑的一个延续。作为一个集体的长凳和花园，它整合了几种大小的坑，以容纳植物和人，他们可以坐在不同的方向，并靠近植物。人们可以在坑里面对面地坐成一小组，也可以单独坐着，通过向不同方向看，保持他们的隐私。阳台的表面也可以用作桌子或躺下。通过不同的物种、大小和位置，以及一年中获得不同的颜色，植物表达并鼓励这种使用的多样性，并在露台上创造出区域之间的软边界。在一个喜庆的开幕研讨会上，我们邀请邻居们和我们一起种植植被。我们希望当地人会对他们帮助种植的植物产生感情，并在他们的日常生活中照顾它们。
Designed as a reflection of the wooden pattern of the existing white façade, the terrace feels as a continuity of the existing building. A collective bench and a garden, it integrates pits of several sizes to accommodate vegetation and people, who can sit in different orientations and in close proximity to plants. People can sit in small groups facing each other in the pits, or they can sit alone, keeping their privacy by looking out in different directions. The terrace surface can also be used as a table or to lay down. With different species, sizes and positions and acquiring different colors throughout the year, plants express and encourage this diversity of use and create soft boundaries between zones in the terrace. In a festive opening workshop we invited neighbors to plant the vegetation with us. We hope that locals will feel attached to the plants they helped to plant and will be taking care of them in their everyday life.
这是一个微小的干预，但我们的意图是创造一个重新征服停车空间的先例，并诱导人们提高对外部空间对社会化的重要性的认识。自从露台建成以来，已经引发了DJ活动和烧烤，并成为当地生活的一个组成部分。在以汽车为主的日本地区，我们希望通过这个项目传播一种不同的外部空间的方法，并鼓励邻居们在他们的场地内安装半公共区域，以增加交流和缓解缺乏自发的接触。
This is a tiny intervention, but our intention is to create a precedent of reconquering parking space and induce an increased awareness of the importance of exterior spaces for socialization. Since its construction the terrace has prompted DJ events and barbeques, and has become an integral part of the local life. In car-dominated regional Japan, we hope to disseminate through this project a different approach to exterior space and encourage neighbors to install semi-public areas within their sites to increase communication and mitigate the lack of spontaneous encounters.
Architects: Jorge Almazán Architects, Keio University Almazán Lab
Area: 23 m²
Construction:Endo Kenchiku
Client:Hair Salon Kasai
Design Team:Jorge Almazán, Gaku Inoue, Shota Takayama, Ken Tamura, Yuri Oikawa, Ayaka Sakai
City:Ichikawamisato
Country:Japan