Small Openings, Deep Holes: Light is Restricted

A Brutalist room with a small, deep opening. Only a small square or vertical rectangular opening is carved into the fifty-centimeter-thick concrete wall; the four inner sides of the opening are the cut surfaces of the concrete, with sharp corners. Light enters through this small opening, forming a clearly defined bright area, while the rest of the room remains dark. The ratio of the solid wall to the opening is approximately nine to one. Avoid: using large floor-to-ceiling glass, multiple windows on the same wall, making the wall thin so the opening has no depth, adding window frames and architraves to the opening.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個開口小而深的粗獷主義房間。厚達五十公分的混凝土牆上只挖出一個不大的方形或直立的長條開口;洞口的四個內側面是混凝土的斷面,轉角俐落。光從這個小洞進來形成一塊邊界清楚的亮區,房間的其餘部分很暗。實牆與開口的比例大約是九比一。避免:使用大面積的落地玻璃、在同一面牆開多個窗、把牆做薄讓洞口沒有深度、在洞口加裝窗框與線板。