Borrowed Scenery: The Window Frames Only a Small View

An interior space that precisely frames the external scenery with a calculated opening. The window on the wall is not a large floor-to-ceiling glass panel, but a horizontal opening of carefully calculated dimensions: only one meter high and three meters wide, positioned at eye level when seated. Through it, one can just see the main trunk and some branches of an old tree in the courtyard, the upper edge of a decorative stone, and a section of a plain wall behind, but not the sky, the ground's edge, or the top of the surrounding wall. Because the framed area is limited, the external scene is abstracted from its context, becoming a horizontal painting. The window has no frame or decorative trim; the glass directly abuts the wall. The interior is darker, and the exterior is brighter. Avoid: using large floor-to-ceiling windows to see everything, adding window frames and casings, allowing the opening to frame too much cluttered scenery, making the interior brighter than the exterior.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個以精確的開口框住外部景物的室內。牆上的窗不是大面的落地玻璃,而是一個尺寸經過計算的橫幅開口:高度僅一米、寬度三米,位置在坐姿的視線高度。透過它剛好可以看見庭院中一株老樹的主幹與部分枝條、一塊置石的上緣、以及背後的一段素牆,而看不見天空、地面的邊界與圍牆的頂端。因為框住的範圍有限,外面的景被抽離了上下文,變成一幅橫幅的畫。窗沒有框料裝飾,玻璃直接與牆體對接。室內較暗,外面較亮。避免:使用大面的落地窗看見全部、加入窗框與窗套裝飾、讓開口框住過多雜亂的景物、把室內照得比室外亮。