Variety Within Uniformity: How Identical Volumes Are Inhabited Differently

A row of terraced houses built thirty years ago, originally identical in design, but now each has been altered by its residents and looks different: some have added aluminum rain shelters, some have enclosed balconies to become indoor spaces, some have installed different styles of iron window grilles, some have added ceramic tiles to the walls, and some have replaced the original wooden doors with stainless steel doors. The positions of air conditioners, styles of clothes drying racks, and quantities and types of potted plants are all different. However, upon closer inspection, the original floor heights, opening positions, and rooflines remain consistent, forming the only common framework for this row of buildings. Avoid: facades drawn as neat and uniform, inability to discern the original common structure, alterations drawn with a sense of design, inclusion of commercial signs.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一排建成三十年的連棟住宅,原始設計完全相同,但經過住戶各自的改動已經面目各異:有的加裝了鋁製的雨遮,有的把陽台封成室內,有的裝了不同款式的鐵窗花,有的在牆上加貼了二丁掛,有的把原本的木門換成不鏽鋼門。冷氣機的位置、晾衣桿的樣式、盆栽的數量與種類全部不同。但仔細看,原始的層高、開口位置與屋頂線仍然一致,是這排建築唯一的共通骨架。避免:立面畫成整齊統一、看不出原始的共通結構、改動畫得有設計感、加入商業招牌。