Architecture Tucked into Urban Gaps

A new building constructed on a narrow, irregular plot only five meters wide, nestled between two old buildings. It grows upwards into a tall, slender volume, with its upper part cantilevered outwards over the roofs of the adjacent buildings. The facade is a continuous surface of diagonally divided metal and glass; the old buildings on either side feature weathered brick and iron grilles. New and old are tightly integrated. Avoid: depicting a spacious plot, maintaining distance between the new building and its neighbors, designing the new building's facade to mimic the old buildings, neglecting the vertical circulation required for a narrow plot.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟蓋在兩棟老建築之間、寬度只有五公尺的畸零基地上的新建築。它向上長成細高的量體,上半部往外挑出越過鄰棟的屋頂,立面是一整片斜向分割的金屬與玻璃;兩側的老建築是斑駁的磚與鐵窗。新與舊緊貼在一起。避免:把基地畫得寬敞、讓新建築與鄰棟保持距離、把新建築做成模仿老建築的立面、忽略窄基地的垂直動線。