马来西亚“内向”住宅inTroVerse

公司：	Core Design Workshop	Type：	建筑
Area：	马来西亚	Label：	别墅私宅

“我是马来西亚典型的‘蛰居一族’，这是我的故事。”这是我在2020年封锁期间阅读的一篇网络文章，讲述了一个极端内向的人和她所受到的社会歧视的故事，以及她如何看待人们遵循社会的准则，即每个人必须以符合主流的方式生活，才能被大众认可和接受。因此当新冠疫情爆发，全球进入居家封锁时代，她才第一次感觉到自己是正常的，至少在当下的社会环境中是这样。在其他人为疫情居家感到困顿时，她还像以前一样在家中过着怡然自得的充实生活。

“I am a Malaysian Hikikomori, and this is my story” an online article that I came about reading during the lockdown periods in the year 2020 that tells a story of an extreme introvert with her social discrimination and how she sees people follow society’s made-up standards where ones have to act a certain way to be accepted. It was only when the Covid-19 pandemic hit with its lockdowns, she felt for the first time in life as if she was alive and normal, at least to the eyes of society, as she was living fully as before while others were struggling to cope for simply being at home.

Introverse诞生于这种社会背景，在环境影响下，我们认知中的正确和错误可能会出现完全颠倒的状况。如果我们能摆脱社会观念对我们认知的影响，也许能够突破在现状中的徘徊，找到新的前进方向。

Introverse was born out of this social context, where the rights inour social perception could have been wrong and the wrongs were right. If we could ditch the influence of social perception in our mind, we may possibly find new paths to progress onwardinstead of wanderingon the status quo.

▽建筑平面图

Introverse是一座由我设计的崭新建筑，也是我的新家。我的家庭由身兼当代艺术画廊所有者和马来西亚当代艺术收藏家的妻子、以及我们四岁的儿子组成。2019年，我被诊断出患有声带癌，从那以后，我与自己内向的性格达成了和解。我与妻子在2020年启动了这座属于我们的项目。从启动、概念化、设计到长期施工，项目跨越了疫情期间整整两年的时间。

Introverse is a newly renovated home for myself an architect, my wife a contemporary art gallerist cum avid collector of Malaysian contemporary arts and our four years old son. In 2019 I was diagnosed with vocal cord cancer, and since I have learned to embrace the introverted character in me. My wife and I initiated this very own project of ours in 2020. from inception, conceptualisation, design and to the long haul construction, the project spanned through the entire 2 years of the pandemic period.

Introverse是对吉隆坡郊区的一座建于20世纪70年代的单层半独立式住宅的改造，它挑战了社会规范，是一次对新的生活方式进行的实验，以内向方式规划的住宅，居住体验与常规的外向房屋截然不同。

A remodelling to a single-storey semi-detached house in a suburban township that was developed and built in the 1970’s outside of Kuala Lumpur, Introverse defies the social norms and puts a new living to its test, aliving in where a home is organised in the introversion manner,contrary to the normal outward-looking houses.

Introverse的建筑体量优先将花园重新定义为房屋。建筑始于一面全高的线性花园墙体，悬挂在钢结构上，盘踞在距离周边围栏10英尺处的地面上空，在花园中创造了一个新的围墙花园。从外园中分离出来的内园，带有中国古代建筑或是日本禅意花园的味道，产生了新的意趣。这是一个户外空间，人们可以不受安全和隐私的限制使用和享受它。在这个带有围墙的花园空间中，在这座建筑中，房间、厨房和浴室被重新整合，取消了实体的墙壁来分隔区域，各个空间自由地融为一体。

The architecture of Introverse takes precedence in redefining the garden to a house.It started with a full-height linear garden wall, suspended on a steel structure, hovering above ground running along 10 feet from the perimeter fencing, creating a new walled garden within a garden. Separated from the outer garden, the inner garden, mirroring the ancient Chinese architecture or the Japanese’s Zen Garden, sees a new purpose. It is an outdoor space where one can live without the constraints of security and privacy, a garden where one can utilise and enjoy at the same time. It is within this walled garden area where the wet rooms of the house, the kitchen and the bathrooms are found, integrated freely with no physical walls defining the individual areas.

▽花园

▽经过重新整合的空间

▽浴室

设计师在花园的对侧创建了一座线性交叉的通风隧道，将住宅与周围环境分隔开来。庭院位于中间作为通风口，各个房间由可渗透的可调节百叶窗和穿孔金属隔开，使该区域成为另一个半户外空间，包含公用设施、门厅、梳妆间和夹层的游戏空间。

On the oppositeside of the garden, a linear cross-ventilation tunnel is created to detach the house from the adjacent neighbour. With a courtyard sitting in the middle as a chimney, the individual rooms within this zone are solely separated by permeable adjustable louvres and perforated metals, making this zone anothersemi-outdoor space where the utility, foyer, powder room and a mezzanine play room are found.

以上的所有半户外空间都是向内设置的，面向住宅的核心：客厅和餐厅，在这个空间中，我们定义了房屋的用途。核心空间的两侧各有两间卧室，这三个主要空间构成了整座建筑。

All the mentionedsemi-outdoor spaces are arranged inwardly looking to the core of the house where the living and dining room stands, a space where we define the purpose of homes. This core space is flanked by two bedrooms on each side and these three main roomsmakes up the house fundamentally.

▽卧室

与建筑和社会文化背景相呼应，建筑外部覆盖了新的金属屋顶，但保留了原始的建筑轮廓，内部则一改曾经的复杂布局，取而代之的是简洁而精巧的空间。

Reacting to both architecture and sociocultural context, externally, the houseis covered in new metal roofing yet with original building profile remained, and internally, the old complexed layout of the house was entirely stripped and transformed into its simplest and minimal spaces.

极简主义哲学反映在房子的空间组织上，并进一步表现在材料选择、建筑装饰、内置设备和室内装饰，以及房屋周围当代艺术的策展中，他们共同构成了房屋的空间氛围。在这里，极简主义不是一种风格，而是一种满足我们当代需求、标准和生活方式的建筑解决方案，是一条将生活中非必要的东西最简化的公式，这些非必要东西包含囤积的习惯、社会观念的影响，以及满足他人的期望等。在Introverse中，我们可以坦诚对待自己，倾听自己的声音，定义自己的生活，这就是极简主义的本质，这是属于我们自己的极简主义。

The philosophy of minimalism is reflected on the spatial organisation of the house, and is further expressed inits material selections, architecture finishings, built-ins, and interior furnishings to the curation of contemporary art around the house, and these define the spatial quality of the house. Here, minimalist is not astyle, but an architectural solutions to our contemporary needs, standard and lifestyle. It is a formula to minimalise the unnecessaries to our life, from the hoarding habit, the influence of social perception to living up to others expectations. In Introverse, we can be honest to ourself, find our voice and define our own life, and that is the essence of minimalism, our very own version of minimalism.

▽室内的极简氛围