Nolintha Residence in situ studio

2018-08-20 17:00

 © Keith Isaacs

基思·艾萨克斯

架构师提供的文本描述。Nolintha住宅是罗利市中心一座20世纪20年代历史悠久的四方形住宅的翻新和小型补充。我们的客户是兄弟姐妹，都是成功的餐馆老板。他们想要一个独立的卧室空间，共享的生活空间，可以容纳大型活动。罗利历史街区委员会(RHDC)要求房屋的外部前部基本保持不变，并要求后面的附加部分足够简单，以避免偏离历史结构。然而，内部经过了彻底的改革，现在已经被轻装上阵，这与历史上沉重的外墙形成了鲜明的对比。

Text description provided by the architects. The Nolintha Residence is a renovation and small addition to an historic, 1920s four-square house in downtown Raleigh. Our clients, who are brother and sister, are successful restaurateurs. They wanted a house with separate bedroom spaces, shared living spaces, and that could accommodate large events. The Raleigh Historic District Commission (RHDC) required that the exterior front of the house remain largely unchanged and that the rear addition be simple enough to not distract from the historic structure. The interior, however, was completely reformed and is now washed with light, a stark contrast to the heavy historic façade.

 © Keith Isaacs

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这房子是我们的客户“第一家，他们提出的计划是不寻常的--翻新一个腐烂的、历史性的四方形，以容纳与食物有关的事件，并提供三个独立的生活套房。RDC控制了现有的正面和侧面FA1E的翻新。房子后面有一个小的增加对上层楼和一个建造不善的、非历史的补充，非常简单，与房子的历史部分形成了对比。在内部，楼下剩下的唯一的元素是中央和西墙壁炉块，这对结构的完整性会造成太大的破坏。西墙壁炉是一种在餐饮和生活空间之间暴露的人工产物，楼下的一些储存和支撑元件环绕并隐藏中央壁炉的质量。一个新的楼梯沿着东墙滑动，穿过旧窗户的前面，到三个卧室套房之间的一个大厅-一个客人，一个给每个兄弟。这些空间彼此完全分开，充满了光线，朝向周围的环境和罗利市中心的美丽景色。

This house is our clients’ first home, and the program they presented was unusual – the renovation of a decaying, historic four-square to accommodate food-related events and provide three separate living suites. RHDC controlled the refurbishment of the existing front and side façades. The rear of the house, where a small addition was made to the upper floor and a poorly-built, non-historic addition was remade, is very simple, contrasting the historic portions of the house. Inside, the only elements remaining downstairs are the central and west wall fireplace masses, which would have been too destructive to the integrity of the structure to dismantle. The west wall fireplace is an artifact exposed between dining and living spaces, and the few storage and support elements downstairs wrap around and hide the central fireplace mass. A new stair slides up the east wall, passing in front of old windows to a hall between three bedroom suites – one guest and one for each sibling. These spaces are completely separate from one another, filled with light, and oriented towards beautiful views of the surrounding context and downtown Raleigh.

 © Keith Isaacs

基思·艾萨克斯

 © Keith Isaacs

基思·艾萨克斯

现有的房子乱七八糟。砖灰浆在许多地方都变成了粉末，大部分的外部装饰都腐烂了。水，通过开着的灰浆缝，自由地进入砖块单板洞，使墙壁腐烂。地基和完整的地下室奇迹般地完整和干燥，但边缘带和邻近的地板托梁已被水和昆虫破坏。这所房子多年来一直作为三个单独的租户空间出租，共用浴室和过度劳累的厨房。至少可以说，为实现这一点而对空间进行的细分是偶然的，而且几个可疑的承重条件变化导致屋顶、天花板和地板跨度以古怪的方式相互依赖。需要更换管道、机械和电气系统。房子的翻新包括拆除大部分内部框架，安装新的结构构件，从屋顶一直到现有的地基，以及在跨度过大的地区安装新的结构构件，以及修复砖瓦贴面和腐烂的外部装饰。新的系统被安置在地下室里，地下室被清理干净，留着储存。这座曾经处于无法恢复的边缘的完工的房子，现在又有了50年的服务时间。

The existing house was in shambles. The brick mortar had turned to powder in many locations and most exterior trim was rotten.  Water, freely admitted into the brick veneer cavity through open mortar joints, was rotting the walls. The foundation and full basement were miraculously intact and dry, but the edge band and adjacent floor joists had been destroyed by water and insects. The house had been rented as three separate tenant spaces for years, with shared bathrooms and an overworked kitchen. The subdivision of space to make this possible was haphazard to say the least, and several suspect changes to load bearing conditions had caused roof, ceiling, and floor spans to rely on one another in eccentric ways. Plumbing, mechanical, and electrical systems needed to be replaced. The renovation of the house involved dismantling much of the interior framing, installing new structural members from the roof down to existing foundations and in areas of over-spanning, and repair of the brick veneer and rotten exterior trim. New systems were located in the basement, which was cleaned out and reserved for storage.  The finished house, once on the verge of being unrecoverable, now has another fifty years of service ahead.