这是由The Manser Practice建筑事务所设计的韦尔奇住宅项目,客户希望得到一个现代的四卧的家庭住宅,同时还得包含巨大的起居空间,占据巨大的海边场地。同时客户希望项目的成本能够控制在最低。鉴于场地条件极其不稳定,设计师决定打造一个平整的平台,同时在其上设立一个盒子结构,由地下的腿结构支撑。这种方法使住宅能够尽可能少地接触地面,避免了不必要的开支,同时将住宅立于树林之间,形成良好的建筑周边环境。建筑室内干净简单,出于经济原因,所有的透明装置都被固定下来,通风和十字通风则由一系列的落地开口板面和屋顶天窗提供。 The client, for whom we had previously designed a house in Nevada, wanted a modern four bedroom family house with large open plan living area, using the dramatic seaside site. There was a requirement to keep the cost of the house as low as reasonably possible. The house was designed to replace an existing shack on a steeply sloping site on a wooded foreshore. Ground conditions are notoriously unstable with blue slippery clay with rotating shelves underground. Foundations needed to be deeply piled and retained with soil nails and an early decision was to create a flat stable platform for a simple ‘box’ house raised on legs above the ground. This allowed for the simplest possible below ground solution, reduced the area of house that ‘touched’ the ground, avoided the need for complex and expensive multi level changes within the house whilst raising it ‘tree house’ like amongst the trees. Internally finishes are clean, simple and economic. For reasons of economy all glazing is fixed and ventilation and cross ventilation is provided by a series of floor level opening panels and roof lights.