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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故事作为一种资源：叙事设计如何构建韧性

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本文收录于 Cobe Notes x ArchDaily 联合出版的纸质特刊《Thresholds》。人类之所以能在早期生存下来并繁衍至全球，得益于两项独特的能力：排汗与讲故事。排汗能让身体在长途奔跑中保持凉爽；而故事则让我们能够进行大规模协作，并在不同群体和世代之间传递知识。作为建筑师，我们至今仍需依赖同样的工具，来将愿景转化为现实。

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