Free Plan: Walls Don't Bear Load and Can Be Placed Freely

An early modernist space with a free plan. Because the structure is supported by a few slender steel columns, the walls do not need to bear weight, so their positions can be freely determined: one wall stops halfway, another does not connect to an adjacent wall, leaving a gap, and some walls are curved. The space is therefore not a series of compartmentalized rooms, but a continuum separated by several independent panels. Avoid: making walls into enclosed room layouts, making every wall from floor to ceiling, using the thickness of load-bearing walls, making the plan into a regular grid.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個平面自由配置的早期現代主義空間。因為結構由幾根細的鋼柱承擔,牆不需要承重,所以它們的位置可以自由決定:一片牆只做到一半就停住、另一片與相鄰的牆不相接留出一道縫、有些牆是彎曲的。空間因此不是一格一格的房間,而是被幾片獨立的板分隔出來的連續體。避免:把牆做成封閉的房間格局、讓每一片牆都從地到頂、使用承重牆的厚度、讓平面變成規則的方格。