东京天空之屋（Open Sky House）

这是一栋小型住宅，供一对夫妻和他们的三个孩子居住。城市房价高，并且在不同区域之间存在一套歧视系统。面对这样的残酷现实，业主想方设法建造了这栋可用面积为61平米的小房子，让每个家庭成员最大可以获得12平米的生活空间。

This is a small house for a family of five, a couple and three children. Land prices in the city are expensive and there is a system of blatant disparities depending on location and buildable area. Even the land they managed to acquire was a harsh reality, as only a small house (61 square meters of allowable gross floor area) could be built on, with a maximum of 12 square meters per person.

▼项目概览，overall view of the house

为了逃避城市经济逻辑下的生活，业主选择切掉了一半的屋顶。在日本，屋顶下的空间可以算作建筑面积，因此这一决定可以说十分大胆。最后建好的住宅中接近一半的空间都没有屋顶遮蔽，包括客厅也是如此。

However, in order to escape from the logic of such an urban economy, the family chose to live without a roof over half of their house, an unknown and bold choice (In Japan, the portion with a roof is counted as floor area). So in this house, nearly half of the house’s area, including the “living room,” is without a roof.

▼设计切掉了一半的屋顶，客厅等生活空间暴露在天空下，part of the roof is cut off, living room exposed under the sky

▼从生活空间看向没有遮盖的天空，view to the uncovered sky from the living space

在这样的设计中，日常生活全部暴露在蓝天之下，这是拥挤城市中唯一的自然元素。房屋中会经受风吹雨打，会积雪，还会有昆虫侵入。每天的生活都要面对一个无法预测的世界，这对于把家当做财产和工具的人来说必然难以理解。

As a result, everyday life here is exposed to the sky, the only and overwhelming nature of the city. Inside the house, it rains, and the wind blows in. It snows and the bugs come. Every day of it is exposed to an unpredictable world, which must be hard to understand for those who think of their homes as assets and tools.

▼夜晚的客厅，living room in the night

▼生活通过天空与自然相连，life connected with the nature through the open sky

▼仰望夜空

look up to the sky in the night

然而，这家人欣然接受了这样的生活。他们将房子装饰得像一个游艇，吊起床单如张开船帆，遮挡阳光和雨水，享受只有这里才能提供的自由生活。暴雨的日子里，孩子们撑着雨伞在家中跑来跑去；炎热的晴天，他们则会建起一个泳池，或者和朋友一起蜷缩在睡袋里，在夜空下入睡。大人们有时会生火烧一些东西，让烟雾萦绕空间。

But the family enjoys this life with glee. They use the fittings of a yacht and sling sheets of sun (and sometimes rain protection) like sails, and they enjoy the freedom that only this house can provide. The children run around with umbrellas on heavy rainy days, build a pool on hot days, and curl up in sleeping bags under the night sky with their friends in the summer. Adults also gather to build fires, and are burning something and making smoke.

▼入口，entrance

▼从浴室看向入口

view to the entrance from the bathroom

▼开放的客厅，open living room

夫妻从事室内设计和总包工作，项目最初的概念就是由他们提出。同时，他们喜欢自己来购买和制作家具，房屋中的小型硬件和灯具都是他们各处搜罗而来。他们还亲自粉刷了部分房间，并且安装遮阳板以满足孩子们不断增加的日常需求。他们将在这里持续生活下去，在任何需要的时候亲手构建自己的生活。

The couple worked in interior design and general contracting, so the first sketches of ideas were drawn by themselves. They also like to buy and make their own furnishings, so they use the small hardware and lighting they have collected, and they construct and partially paint rooms and install shades to match their children’s growing needs on a daily basis. They will continue to live in the house while building the parts of their lives that they need at any given time.

▼家具和装饰由业主夫妇购买收集，the fittings in the house are collected by the clients

▼在客厅中可以享受丰富的活动，enjoy various activities in the living room

▼与客厅相连的室内餐厅和厨房，indoor kitchen and dining room connected with the living room

▼从楼梯望向客厅和餐厅

view to the living room and the dining room from the staircase

▼与储物空间结合的楼梯

staircase combined with storage

▼二层走廊，如同在游艇中，corridor on the second floor as if in a yacht

房屋外形简洁，与周边其他住宅使用同样的立面和窗框。切去的屋顶让日常生活变得丰富而充满乐趣。与蓝天和大气相连，建筑如同航行在城市中的一叶扁舟，不断调整自己的生活方式。

The exterior of the house is simple, with siding and residential sashes like those found in other houses in the area. The plan is small and simple. However, with the roof cut off, daily life is fun and dense. Connected to the sky and the atmosphere, the house is like a small ark sailing through the city, adjusting the shade and the way it lives.

▼建筑鸟瞰，aerial view of the building

▼房屋外观与周边建筑一致，the appearance of the building corresponded with its surroundings

▼平面图，plans

▼剖面图，sections

Project Name: Open Sky House

Architecture Firm: Yoshitaka Suzuki and Associates

Website:

Firm Location: Tokyo, Japan

Design Team: Yoshitaka Suzuki, Zajirogh, Minori Takahashi

Clients: Zajirogh, Minori Takahashi

Construction: Kouki Watanabe / SANRYO Koumuten

Completion Year: 2019

Gross Built Area: 57.01 sqm

Project location: Tokyo, Japan

Lead Architects: Yoshitaka Suzuki, Zajirogh

Lead Architects e-mail: info@ysaa.co

Photo credits:  Yasuhiro Nakayama

Photographer’s website:

https://ynps.jp/

Photographer’s e-mail: nakayamayasuhiro@ynps.jp