站在高高的山顶上,正好在华盛顿郊外,这个18世纪的农场住宅被近百英亩的农田环绕,它享有绝佳的山景。住户想为它再添置一个附加部分,从而将室外拉进来,使人们能享受户外的景色和四季的变化。除了作为娱乐之用,喜欢园艺和马术的主人希望这个空间能成为一个户外运动后的休憩调整之地。它同样是住宅的入口和门槛,这既是从日常使用角度讲,也是从某些正式场合的角度讲。 Standing prominently on a hilltop just outside Washington, Virginia, the eighteenth century farmhouse is surrounded by five hundred acres of farmland providing vantage point views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The owners desired an addition to their beloved farmhouse that would bring the outside in and enable them to share the landscape and its changing seasons with friends and family. In addition to entertaining, the owners, who enjoy gardening and horseback riding, required an area to clean up after days spent outdoors. It was also their experience of entry and threshold, both in the daily utilitarian sense and in a more occasional formal sense, which needed to be clarified.