A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo

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Son Llodrà 住宅：融入景观 / Bastidas Architecture

September 28

在地中海山丘之巅，矮灌木与地平线勾勒出自然风景的边界，这座住宅则试图隐匿于其中。其核心策略是与地形融为一体：半埋入地下的体量覆盖着一层本土植被，使其消隐于视线中，将建筑转化为地形的延伸。土壤与本土植物不仅将其遮蔽，还起到了降温和隔热的作用，提供了一种扎根于低调与尊重自然的生活方式。

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