Name: 永遠不會太小 23 平方米/247 平方英尺的微型公寓 - 開羅公寓 (NEVER TOO SMALL 23sqm/247sqft Micro Apartment - The Cairo Flat)
Uploaded: 2025-07-16T21:36:54.000Z
Duration: 5 min 17 s

基礎被動語態

The Cairo Flats were designed in 1936 by a Melbourne architect called Best Overend.

開羅公寓由墨爾本建築師 Best Overend 於 1936 年設計。

程度副詞

He'd been working in the UK with an English architect called Wells Coates and they were developing quite experimental ideas for how to provide the maximum amenity in the minimum footprint, and they called this idea the Minimum Flat.

他在英國與一位名叫威爾斯-科茨（Wells Coates）的英國建築師一起工作，他們就如何在最小的佔地面積內提供最大的便利設施提出了一些頗具實驗性的想法，他們將這一想法稱為 "最小公寓"（Minimum Flat）。

情態副詞

The Cairo Flats are listed on the Heritage Register as being historically significant.

開羅公寓已被列入《遺產登記冊》，具有重要的歷史意義。

One of the first examples of serially arranged flats, so side by side and stacked on top of one another, also for their so-called heroic use of cantilevered concrete in the balconies and the spiral staircase.

該建築是最早採用並排和層疊式排列的公寓之一，在陽臺和螺旋樓梯上也採用了所謂的懸臂混凝土結構。

As soon as you walk in the door, you're greeted with an expanse of view onto the garden.

一進門，映入眼簾的是一望無際的花園美景。

The apartment does a number of things quite well.

這套公寓在很多方面都做得很好。

Firstly, they're north-facing, so they're getting a lot of great natural light.

首先，它們坐北朝南，可以獲得大量充足的自然光。

But even though they're quite small, they do a couple of things that make them feel much bigger.

不過，儘管它們個頭很小，但它們做的幾件事卻讓人覺得它們大得多。

Firstly, the really high 2.9 metre ceiling.

When you look into the detail of the place, there's that cove junction between the walls and the ceiling.

從細節上看，牆壁和天花板之間有一個凹槽。

The sense of space is extended by not registering that hard line.

空間感因為沒有硬線條而得以延伸。

So when I moved in, there was very little storage.

是以，當我搬進來時，這裡的儲藏室很少。

I wanted to really respect the bones of this building because it was really well designed.

我想真正尊重這座建築的骨架，因為它設計得非常好。

I made a few minor modifications to the space.

Bookshelves, wardrobe, bed, extra objects stuck in the room, they're all integrated into the wall.

書架、衣櫃、床、房間裡多餘的物件，都與牆壁融為一體。

So the curtain's definitely a bit of a theatrical element.

是以，幕布絕對是一個戲劇元素。

I can use it to cover up all of my clothes and books and personal bits and pieces and make it a bit more of a living space rather than a bedroom.

我可以用它來遮蓋我的衣服、書籍和個人零碎物品，讓它更像一個生活空間，而不是臥室。

I guess when you're designing a small space, you want to make sure that everything needs to be performing at least one, if not two or three functions.

我想，當你在設計一個小空間時，你要確保每樣東西至少要有一種功能，甚至是兩種或三種功能。

The footrest that makes sitting in the corner and reading comfortable is a bit of a challenge becomes something that I can stand on to reach higher storage elements.

腳踏板讓我坐在角落裡看書變得更加舒適，而我可以站在腳踏板上夠到更高的存儲空間。

This window used to be the kitchen door, which meant that you couldn't actually put anything up against that wall.

這扇窗戶曾經是廚房的門，這意味著你不能在這面牆前擺放任何東西。

Closing that in and turning it into a servery window meant that I can now fold the bed down into that position.

把它關閉並變成一個服務窗，意味著我現在可以把床摺疊到那個位置。

And it's also a great spot to have my bedside table, books, glass of water.

這裡也是放置床頭櫃、書籍和水杯的好地方。

At night time, I pull the curtain back, the bed folds down, and it comes all the way around to the front window and closes the room in, makes it a nice, cosy space to sleep.

晚上，我把窗簾拉開，床摺疊起來，一直延伸到前窗外，把房間封閉起來，這樣就成了一個舒適的睡眠空間。

The kitchen was renovated in around about 2000 by someone who lived here before me and hasn't been modified since.

廚房是 2000 年左右由我之前住在這裡的人翻新的，之後就沒有再改動過。

Because the bathroom's so large, it kind of makes for the perfect space to have your laundry as well.

因為浴室很大，所以這裡也是洗衣服的理想場所。

The original apartment always had a bathtub, still has a bathtub, and I was definitely keen on keeping that bathtub.

原來的公寓裡一直有浴缸，現在也有，我肯定很想保留那個浴缸。

It's a little bit of luxury in such a small space.

在如此狹小的空間裡，卻有幾分奢華。

The challenge of living in a space this small is designing it in ways so that you can enjoy all of the things that a normal house would have.

要在這麼小的空間裡生活，面臨的挑戰是如何設計，才能讓你享受到普通住宅所擁有的一切。

Somewhere to sleep, somewhere to eat, somewhere to study.

有地方睡覺，有地方吃飯，有地方學習。

If I have friends over for dinner, I take my desk, which doubles as my dining table, I pull it out into the middle of the room, bring a couple of the outside chairs in, and then I've got a dining setting.

如果有朋友來吃晚飯，我會把我的書桌（兼做餐桌）拉到房間中間，再把外面的幾把椅子搬進來，這樣就有了用餐環境。

You've got windows on both sides of the apartment, so you get really excellent cross-ventilation.

公寓兩側都有窗戶，交叉通風效果非常好。

Melbourne hit five million last year, heading for something like eight million by 2050.

墨爾本去年的人口達到 500 萬，到 2050 年將達到 800 萬。

We need to be thinking about how we're going to house people more space-efficiently.

我們需要考慮如何更有效地利用空間為人們提供住所。

I think when you've got a really well-built building like the Cairo Flats, the last thing you want to be doing, apart from its historical value, is knocking it down because it's providing another kind of housing which doesn't really exist elsewhere, which really suits a certain kind of resident at a certain time in their lives.

我認為，當你擁有一棟像開羅公寓這樣建造精良的建築時，除了它的歷史價值之外，你最不想做的事情就是把它推倒，因為它提供了另一種住房，而這種住房在其他地方並不存在，它非常適合生活在某個時期的某類居民。

Environmentally irresponsible to be just knocking buildings down and building new all the time.

一味地推倒建築，建造新樓，是對環境不負責任的做法。

We need to be thinking about how we can repurpose what we've already got.

我們需要考慮如何重新利用我們已有的東西。