5 英尺

设计：Ryuhei Ichikura（麻省理工学院 建筑系）

人们对建筑界限有着严格的把控。但我认为这一时期的建筑简直令人窒息。

“Zasso”一词起源于日本，意思是独立于人们意愿而生长的植被，而那里的季风气候也给这些植被提供了快速生长的条件。人们曾一直把zasso 视为现代生活不可逾越的障碍，并试图用除草剂进行消除。这一想法对建筑界限的完全式预期和控制提出了挑战，并旨在与zasso 和儿童进行“谈判”，如此一来这便将相背于人们希望打造离地5 英尺世界的意图。

新旧城区住房：南野（Minamino）是东京最年轻的郊区新市镇之一，但也逐渐发展成了“老城区”。因为这项建议提出了这样一种居住方式，即让孤僻的老年人搬来共同居住。

多摩川河一直向北绵延至镇上，河床和附近的公园里生长着各种各样的zasso。该地块位于小镇中间，包括七个住宅单位。

漂浮在zasso 上的住宅：低层和小面积房屋分开修建，这样zasso 的种子就能通过风、鸟和小动物从外面很好地传播到中间地带。屋顶的不规则坡度、屋檐的深度和房屋的距离让场地内形成别样小气候，以便同时让各种zasso 生长。通往房屋的通道将会根据zasso 的预计高度（3-5 英尺，视情况而定）而升高。

儿童Zasso 修剪工作坊：在附近大学学习景观或园艺的大学生为南野的孩子们设立了zasso 修剪工作坊。在大学生们的指导下，孩子们可以在现场通过修剪zasso来设计和手工制作自己的场地，在那里他们可以跨学校一起玩耍，比如捉迷藏、跳绳或与花朵儿玩耍。

穿越空地的连接部分：房屋底部有开口，修剪后可与外面空地相连。由于这些开口适合孩子们的身高，可供他们随意进出房子，与住户互动。然后，住户的日常生活通过孩子们在开阔的场地上串联起来。虽然这里在一段时间后又重新长满zasso，不过孩子们会进行再次设计出不同的形状，使得居民又有了不同的联系。这种不断的“界限谈判”和人们之间的短暂联系孕育了南野的异质互动生活。

People have thoroughly controlled boundary in architecture.I call such architecture suffocating during this period.

A term“zasso”,meaning vegetation that grows independently of what people intend,originated in Japan where the monsoon climate allows random vegetation to grow rapidly.The people have seen zasso as absolute obstacle in the modern life,and have tried eliminating it by herbicide.This proposal challenges the fully intended and controlled boundary in architecture,and aims to keep negotiating it withzasso and children that would go against the people’s intention in a world of 5 Feet above the ground.

Housing for a New Old Town:Minamino is one of the youngest suburban New Towns in Tokyo,and gradually becoming“an old town”.This proposes housing where the isolated senior citizens can move and keep living in the town together.

Tamagawa River runs right northern to the town,and a wide variety of zasso grows in the riverbed and the nearby parks.The site is located in the middle of the town,including seven house units.

Houses Floating on Zasso:Low-rise and smallfootprint houses stand separately so that the seeds of zasso are delivered well to the in-between spaces via winds,birds and small animals from the outside.Irregular pitch of the roofs,depth of the eaves,and distance of the houses generate microclimate in the site so as to let various zassoinhabit simultaneously.Access to the houses is elevated according to the predicted height of zasso,which is 3-5 feet depending on the conditions.

Zasso Trimming Workshops for the Kids:College students who study landscape or gardening at nearby universities hold zassotrimming workshops for the kids in Minamino.Under the students’ instruction,the kids are to design and handcraft their own open ground in the site by trimming zasso where they can play together across the schools such as hide-and-seek,skipping ropes or playing with flowers.

Connections across the Open Ground:The houses have openings at their feet,which can be connected to the open ground after the trimming.Since these openings are tall enough for the kids,they go in and out of the houses to communicate the residents.Then,the everyday lives of the residents are connected across the open ground via the kids.Although this ground is refilled with zasso after a while,the kids are to design the ground again but in a different shape,which makes a different connection of the residents.This continualnegotiations of the boundary and transitory connections of the people nurturesheterogeneous and interactive lives in Minamino.