漏室是真的漏室，屋顶漏过雨水，又想改造后它能漏进光来。

2015 年末决定改造时，已在这个胡同大杂院的小黑屋里住了四五年。房东准许了除房子外墙、原始屋顶之外的内部改造。设想过看星空落叶的大天窗无法实现，就在局限、封闭的黑盒子里捕捉光明。

Leaky Chamber is a house that leaking indeed, the roof used to have rain seep through. By the renovation, we hoped that it could let some light leak in.

When the renovation was decided at the end of 2015, he had lived in this dark hut in the Hutong compound for four or five years. My landlord conceded to the internal renovation except for the external wall and the original roof. Since I couldn’t construct a big skylight for enjoying the star-scatter sky and fallen leaves, I chose to catch brightness inside the limited and closed black box.

▼项目概览，project preview ©Atelier Tree

毕竟是租屋，经济、实用仍是改造的基本原则。

直接的生活体验打磨出对空间各个角落的想象，虽然动工时只有铅笔草图，但通过现场直接沟通，实时指导，工人对设计意图的理解准确，调整较少，整体施工用时不到一月。过程中木工师傅说过一句玩笑话：从没做过这样的“装修”，像纸糊灯笼似的需要留心操作。他们的反应并不奇怪，改造主要使用 15MM 金属方管做形体骨架，用 10mm 厚乳白色聚碳酸酯板做封板，看似轻薄脆弱的材料，与纸扎物件颇为类似。并不介意他这样的联想，反而高兴，工人应该感受了别样的造物乐趣。

选择这两种材料的原因，金属方管：轻便、15mm 是市场常规规格中较小尺寸，满足各物件骨架强度需求没有问题，可现场裁切、快速拼装焊接；聚碳酸酯阳光板：轻便，大板块仍可单人搬移，可现场裁切，安装快速，虽轻薄但防水耐候，日常使用不易破损，透光，这是重要因素；二者的组合构建同样可以透过光线，使新增功能形体不会过分阻挡光线传入室内。并且，它们都价格实惠。

▼打开的玄关更衣柜透过鞋帽柜物品的剪影，view to the shoe cabinet and locker in the entryway through the transparent screen © Atelier Tree

It is a rental after all, so it is the prime principle of this renovation that being economic and practical.

The imagination to every corner of the space is sharpened by the direct experience of living here. Although there were only pencil sketches when the construction started, the workers understood design intention accurately because of direct communication on site and adjusted relatively little due to simultaneous conduct—the whole construction took less than a month.

A carpenter made such joke to me: he had never seen this kind of “decoration”, which needs to be executed as carefully as like handcrafting a paper lantern. Actually their reaction was not weird, because the renovation used mostly square metal tube with 15mm width for the framework and 10mm-wide milky white polycarbonate sheets shrouding, which seem like light and fragile material just like paper-made items, so I didn’t mind what he was thinking, by contrast I was happy about it owing to the workers probably got another kind of fun from the creation beyond the stereotype items.

The reasons why we chose these two materials are that square metal tube is light and convenient, additionally 15mm is the relatively small size based on general market specification, it meets the framework strength requirement for all kinds of items, moreover, it is able to be cut on site and pieced and melding together fast; polycarbonate sheet is light and convenient as well, so single person can move it and also can cut it on site and install it fast, thin but water-proof and weather-resistant, it allows light pass through and it is not easy to be broken which is a crucial factor; the combination of the two materials also let the sunlight shine through, which leads to that the newly added functional objects wouldn’t block the internal of the room so much from getting sunshine. Plus, both of them are at reasonable costs.

▼轴测分解图，Axonometric exploded drawing ©Atelier Tree

微调平面布局，适应一人起居、好友喜聚的生活需求。一层设置紧凑的半开放厨房与卫生洗漱区，用抬高一步的方式与入口玄关和贯通的会客厅各自分界；二层设卧室与阅读工作区。

在两层房间的墙面上充分设置置物架与储物柜，尽量多的储藏空间，尽量方便拿取常用物品。籍由聚碳酸酯板的透光属性，柜子、架子的设置甚至可以忽略原始窗洞，将功能体块看似粗暴直接的叠加在墙面。

入口增设背靠背的鞋帽柜与更衣柜，遮挡围合出小玄关，方便日常进出更衣戴帽，也不致开门后使小小房间一览无遗。

背靠背的鞋帽柜更衣柜开合动态图，opening and closing dynamic picture of shoe cabinet and locker ©Atelier Tree