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架构师提供的文本描述。建筑的质量是什么？我们如何衡量这样一个开放的概念？

Text description provided by the architects. What is quality in architecture? How can we measure such an open concept?

如果每一次转折，每一个细节，每一个给建筑体验形成的序列，都是经过深思熟虑的，我们能说它有质量吗？我们真的能衡量一下大楼里的思考量吗？我想我们可以。我认为我们至少有能力去探索这个想法，去感知一个符合空间的物质解决方案背后的思考过程。当有人想到一个窗口，一个门槛，一个走廊或一套楼梯，这是第一次，我们可以肯定，一座桥梁之间的思想和物质已经建成。这样的体验至少让我们接近了设计质量的概念。

If every turn, every detail, every sequence that gives form to an architectural experience it is thought throughly, can we say it has quality? Can we really measure the amount of thought that gets put into a building? I think we can. I think we are capable of at least exploring the idea to perceive the process of thinking behind a material solution that conforms space. When someone thinks of a window, a threshold, a hallway or a set of stairs like it was the first time, we can be sure that a bridge between thought and matter has been constructed. And such an experience at least takes us near the concept of quality in design.     

Casa较高的Tampiquito是为一个非常特殊的人量身定做的房子：一个工业设计师，一个与陶瓷一起工作的有创造力的女人。她向亲爱的建筑师们要求给自己一个简单的房子。她想休息，工作，做饭，和朋友在一起。

Casa Taller Tampiquito is a house tailored for a very particular person: an industrial designer, a creative woman that works with ceramics. She asks Dear Architects for a simple house for herself. She wants to rest, work, cook, and be with friends. 

下降的地段提出了一个解决方案，为不同的功能，但也是一个机会，以建立之间的关系，现有的公共楼梯和一个可能的秩序，为新的房子。

A descending lot suggests a solution for separate functions but also an opportunity to build a relation between the existing public stairway and a possible order for the new house. 

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解决方案：一个上升的螺旋，从这个地下层上升到一个开阔的空间，在那里你可以重新发现山脉。这所房子是根据这个简单的原则建造的。

The solution: an ascending spiral that rises from this underground level into an open space where you rediscover the mountains. The house is built from this simple principle.

如果地下室层感觉是街道的一部分，一旦你进入房子，就会对社区开放，体验就会大不相同。我们被一个不可思议的联想所震撼：一条从厨房穿过的楼梯，从搅拌机、一些芒果和香蕉上走过。楼梯的对角线把我们的尸体拉上了楼。我们等不及要爬上去了。

If the basement level feels part of the street and open to the neighborhood once you enter the house the experience is quite different. We are struck by an uncanny association: a stairway that runs over a kitchen, it literally steps over a blender, some mangos and bananas. The diagonal traced by the stairs pulls our body upstairs. We can’t wait to climb up.

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房子里楼梯的顺序有三个主要的时刻：强调垂直空间的狭窄，穿过房子的相对后角的连续的对角线空间，最后是露台的开放性。(鼓掌)

The sequence of the stairs inside the house has 3 main moments: a narrowness that emphasizes a vertical space, a continuum diagonal space that runs through the opposite back corners of the house, and finally, the openness of the terrace.  

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但就在这个序列的中间，人们经历了房子的第二个引人注目的时刻：一套双对角视图将楼梯的空间转化为与整个房子和场地之间更为丰富的关系。一条对角线向我们刚离开的那层打开：入口大厅。第二条对角线把我们拉向天空。光和地面通过两个垂直平面和3个不同的材料之间简单而又非常良好的关系而结合在一起。

But it’s in the middle of this sequence where one experiences the second striking moment of the house: a double set of diagonal views that transforms the space of a stairway into a much richer relation to the whole house and to the site. One diagonal opens up towards the level we just left: the entry hall. And the second diagonal pulls us even more towards the sky. Light and ground bounded together through a simply but very well built relation between two vertical planes and 3 different materials. 

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这两个旋转平面的几何形状让位于不同的方式来处理镜像空间的概念。即使在约化的封闭空间中，我们也能找到相同的形式原理。这种极端的形式主义有什么意义吗？这是质量吗？重复，各部分与整体之间的关系。

The geometry of this two rotating planes gives place to diverse ways to play with the idea of a mirrored space. We find the same formal principle even in the reduced enclosed spaces. Does this extreme formalism have any sense?? Is this quality? Repetition, relations between the parts and the whole.

一旦我们到达序列的末尾，一切就又被修复了。广阔的风景和山的存在给了整个序列它所需要的所有感觉。

Once we reach the end of the sequence everything gets fixed again. The vastness of the landscape and the presence of the mountain give the whole sequence all the sense it needs.

房子真的没有天花板。在主卧室所在的整个空间的东端，有一个悬空的白色盒子。但它并没有强调覆盖厨房区域的水平平面。这个幻觉很重要。没有天花板的螺旋。没完没了。

The house really feels without a ceiling. There is a suspended white box that occupies the east end of the whole space where the main bedroom is. But it does not emphasize the horizontal plane that covers the kitchen area. This illusion it’s important. A spiral without ceiling. Without ending.

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其中一位建筑师认为，这三个层次中的每一个都有一个空洞或封闭的空间，你可能会说这是一个核心，但我个人并没有找到它。每一个静止或封装的空间，它被拉出来，并扩展到外部，寻找那个打开的洞，连接你的视线与天空。

One of the architects argues that there is a cavity or enclosed space in each of the 3 levels, a core you may say, but I personally didn’t find it. Each stillness or encapsulated space it is pulled out and expanded towards the exterior, searching for that open hole that connects your gaze to the sky.

你也会发现每一条线，每一个顶点都有一个回声，它扩展到其他的东西；颜色或纹理的变化，或者画在地板上的一条简单的线。另一个与整体联系在一起的手势。

You also find that each line, each vertex has an echo, it expands to something else; a change of color or texture, or a simple line drawn over the floor. Another gesture that connects with the whole.

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场地和身体，由每一处不断延伸而成。

Site and body, drawn together by a constant extension of each. 

如果用物质来建立这种联系的能力在质量测量方面是一个相关的问题，那么我们可以保证这个在Tampiquito的小房子有质量。

If the ability to use of matter to create this connections is a relevant issue in terms of quality measurement, then we can assure this little house in Tampiquito has quality.

Architects Dear Architects

Location San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

Category Houses

Dear Architects Rubén Octavio Sepúlveda Chapa, Abel Salazar, Ana Paulina Reyes, Jorge Jiménez, Cinthia Cavazos, Marcela Martínez

Area 250.0 sqm

Project Year 2015

Photographs Lorena Darquea