架构师提供的文本描述。诺阿是日本传统的表演艺术，是建筑理念的主要灵感源泉。Noh的表演在很大程度上依赖于精心雕刻的面具的使用。虽然起初这些面具似乎表现出一种中立的表达方式，但它们的形成方式能够传达出广泛的情感范围。通过演员动作的细微变化和灯光的变化，面具被赋予了生命。建筑形式与太阳高度、天气模式和大气条件波动的季节和日常变化之间也存在类似的对话。这一时间周期合谋不断地变换和指示光线和阴影，产生一种建筑表现形式。

Text description provided by the architects. Noh, a traditional, Japanese performance art, serves as the main inspiration for the architectural concept. The performance of Noh is heavily reliant upon the use of delicately carved masks. Although at first these masks may appear to present a neutral expression they are formed in such a way as to convey a broad emotional spectrum. Through subtle changes in the actor’s movement and variances in lighting the masks are brought to life. A similar dialogue exists between built form and seasonal and daily changes to the sun’s altitude, weather patterns and fluctuations in atmospheric conditions. This temporal cycle conspires to continuously transform and direct light and shadows, generating a form of architectural expression.

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这是位于日本新泻的56个住宅综合体。它坐落在一条主干道上，靠近中央车站，在一个繁忙的T-交叉口的尽头。由于其规模之大，新泻是一个典型的摩托社会。它缺乏地铁系统，因此私家车是一种普遍的交通工具。作为回应，我们以海猫为手段，尽量增加泊车位。领航员具有双重作用；不仅是建筑方案所采用的，而且有助于建筑物的结构稳定。

This is a 56 dwelling housing complex located in Niigata, Japan. It sits along a main road, close to the central station and at the end of a busy T-junction. Due to its scale Niigata is a typical motorized society. It lacks a metro system and therefore private vehicles are a prevalent mode of transport. In response, we utilised piloti as a means to maximise the number of parking spaces. The piloti serve a dual purpose; not only adopted by the architectural plan they also contribute to the structural stability of the building.

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(Naomichi Sode)

立面的配置不是由任意的决定的，而是取决于疏散路线、服务管道的效率和实用性，以及允许重新使用模板等要求。玻璃，选择其热性质，反映周围的城市景观和整合的外观在其环境中。在玻璃上反射的虚拟天空，创造了一种深度和孔隙感。结合开放的底层，这会影响对建筑物体积的感知，当它在细长的机身上保持平衡时，它的质量就会减少。

The configuration of the facade has not been informed by arbitrary decisions but instead determined by the efficiency and practicality of evacuation routes, service piping and to allow for re-use of the formwork, amongst other requirements. The glass, chosen for its thermal properties, reflects the surrounding cityscape and integrates the façade within its environment. The virtual sky, reflected on the glass, creates a sensation of depth and porosity. Combined with the open ground floor this affects the perception of the building’s volume, its mass is reduced as it balances on the slender piloti.

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(Naomichi Sode)

典型的面具遮住整个脸，隐藏自己的个性，把自己变成另一个人。然而，在Noh，面具只是部分遮住了脸，从而暴露了一个活人的下巴。这一人性的方面被允许进一步表达演员的年龄、个性和情感。以这种方式，建筑立面散发出其居民的生活，它被生活在有序结构中的混乱所激活。建筑中所包含的个性将逐渐被改写和继承。这座建筑将随着居住者而成长；外观，不断被自然现象所操纵，是一种被季节变化所激活的NOH面具。

Typically masks cover the entire face to conceal ones personality, to transform oneself into someone else. However, in Noh, masks only partially cover the face thus revealing the jaw of a living man. This human aspect is permitted to further express the age, personality and sensibility of the actors. In this fashion, the architectural facade exudes the lives of its inhabitants; it is animated by the chaos living within its ordered structure. The personalities incorporated in the architecture will gradually be rewritten and inherited. This architecture will grow with its occupants; the façade, continuously manipulated by natural phenomenon, is a Noh mask which is activated by the changing seasons.