Outdoor Extension: Only a Few Months a Year

A Nordic indoor-outdoor boundary prepared for a brief summer, where the outdoor space is an extension of the interior. The sliding doors are fully open, leading to a wooden deck terrace; both indoor and outdoor floors are light-colored wood, flush with each other. Because good weather lasts only a few months a year, this boundary is highly valued: the terrace has complete seating, a dining table, a stove, and plenty of cushions and blankets. Indoors, near the door, are outdoor items—a basket of blankets, a pair of shoes, a hat, ready to be taken outside at any moment. The time is 10 PM on a summer night; the sky is still bright pale blue, the sun has just set but it's not completely dark. Avoid: making the doors fixed and non-opening, having a significant height difference between indoor and outdoor, depicting the terrace as unusable in winter, adding parasols and tropical resort elements.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個為短暫夏季做準備的北歐室內外交界。落地門完全打開,通往一個木平台的露台;室內外的地板都是淺色的木,高度齊平。因為好天氣一年只有幾個月,這個交界處被高度重視:露台上有完整的座位、一張餐桌、一個爐與大量的坐墊與毯子。室內靠近門的位置放著戶外用的東西——一籃毯子、一雙鞋、一頂帽子,隨時可以出去。時間是夏季的深夜十點,天空還是明亮的淡藍,太陽剛落但沒有全黑。避免:把門做成固定不可開啟、讓室內外有明顯的高低差、把露台畫成冬季無法使用的樣子、加入遮陽傘與熱帶度假的元素。