架构师提供的文本描述。我们经常会遇到一个客户，他决定购买一处超出他预算范围的新房产，或者买一些已经建好的房子，并对其进行改造。我们的建议总是突出第二种选择。我们认为，更好的做法是利用现有的建筑，通过这样做加强城市的力量，挑战是想象各种可能性。

Text description provided by the architects. New vs. Old Every so often we meet a client who is faced with the decision to buy a new property that might be out of his budget or buy something already built and recondition it. Our advice always stands out the second option. We believe that is better to take advantage of an existing building and with doing so strengthen the city as it, the challenge is visualize the possibilities.

Text description provided by the architects. New vs. Old Every so often we meet a client who is faced with the decision to buy a new property that might be out of his budget or buy something already built and recondition it. Our advice always stands out the second option. We believe that is better to take advantage of an existing building and with doing so strengthen the city as it, the challenge is visualize the possibilities.

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我们的计划是提供一套空间减少、光线差、没有储存空间的公寓，一般来说，这是一个对用户不利的环境。我们计划修改这一设想；为了实现这一目标，我们必须考虑谁将居住在这个空间里，他们如何居住，以及他们居住在哪里？客户是两名20出头的学生，他们打算为每个人提供休息和学习区域，以及一个适合会议和聚会的共享社交空间。此外，作为一个间歇性的使用者，我们有客户的父母，他们住在不同的城市，但有时在那里过夜。

The plan We are presented with an apartment of reduced spaces, poor lighting, no storage, in general a hostile environmen for the user. We planned to modify that scenario; in order to achieve this, we had to think about who is going to inhabit this space, how they inhabit it and where are they when they inhabit it? The clients are two students in their early 20s, who intend to have resting and studying areas for each one, plus a shared social area suitable for meetings and parties. In addition, as an intermittent user, we have the clients’ parents who live in a different city but sometimes stay and sleep there.

The plan We are presented with an apartment of reduced spaces, poor lighting, no storage, in general a hostile environmen for the user. We planned to modify that scenario; in order to achieve this, we had to think about who is going to inhabit this space, how they inhabit it and where are they when they inhabit it? The clients are two students in their early 20s, who intend to have resting and studying areas for each one, plus a shared social area suitable for meetings and parties. In addition, as an intermittent user, we have the clients’ parents who live in a different city but sometimes stay and sleep there.

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在这样的背景下，该项目的目标是将三间极小的房间改造成两间大房间，每间房间都配有浴室；在有客人的情况下，还增加了在餐饮区规划的第三间房间的可能性。在这么小的空间里，我们质疑把墙壁当作隔间的想法。根据客户的需要，我们相信我们可以为他们提供一个用途。因此，墙壁上有储藏室、桌子、床、洗衣房、衣橱、书架等等。

With this background, the project’s objective was transforming the space from three extremely small rooms into two large rooms each one equipped with a bathroom; adding also the possibility of a third room in the space planned for the dining area, when there are guests. In such small spaces, we questioned the idea of having walls just as divisions. Depending on the needs of the client, we believed we can provide them with a use. Therefore, walls contain storage places, a table, a bed, laundry space, closets, shelves and more.

With this background, the project’s objective was transforming the space from three extremely small rooms into two large rooms each one equipped with a bathroom; adding also the possibility of a third room in the space planned for the dining area, when there are guests. In such small spaces, we questioned the idea of having walls just as divisions. Depending on the needs of the client, we believed we can provide them with a use. Therefore, walls contain storage places, a table, a bed, laundry space, closets, shelves and more.

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当我们选择现在组成公寓的材料时，我们首先考虑的是我们已经拥有的东西，然后添加了更便于解决项目提案的内容。这些衣柜和厨房家具被重复使用，并插入到用胶合板制成的新家具中。这样，可以增加存储容量，并在空间之间配置分区。

The resources When choosing the material that now makes up the apartment, we first thought in what we already had and then added what was more convenient to solve the project proposal. The wardrobes and kitchen furniture are reused and inserted in the new furniture made out of plywood. This way, increasing the storage capacity and configuring divisions between spaces.

The resources When choosing the material that now makes up the apartment, we first thought in what we already had and then added what was more convenient to solve the project proposal. The wardrobes and kitchen furniture are reused and inserted in the new furniture made out of plywood. This way, increasing the storage capacity and configuring divisions between spaces.

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我们选择滑动门来释放循环；这些都是用以前用于进口汽车零部件的回收金属结构制造的，不同的涂层也在一些受空间限制的地方建立了隔断，我们不能引入更多的用途。

We opted for sliding doors to free up the circulations; these were manufactured with recycled metallic structures previously used for the import of automotive parts, which with different coatings also set up divisions in places where, conditioned by space, we could not introduce more uses.

We opted for sliding doors to free up the circulations; these were manufactured with recycled metallic structures previously used for the import of automotive parts, which with different coatings also set up divisions in places where, conditioned by space, we could not introduce more uses.

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Architects Taller General

Location Pasteur 134, Quito 170513, Ecuador

Area 65.0 m2

Project Year 2018

Photography JAG studio

Category Apartment Interiors