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架构师提供的文本描述。坐落在蓝山下游林登的东部山脊上，坐落于2003年完成的一个项目住宅。新主人是一对年轻夫妇，在经历了几个寒冷的冬天后，决定是时候把房子改造成一个热舒适的家庭住宅了。

Text description provided by the architects. Perched on the eastern spur of Linden in the lower Blue Mountains, sat a project home partially completed in 2003. The new owners, a young couple, decided after suffering through several cold winters that it was time to renovate the house into a thermally comfortable family home.

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客户最初想要维持现有的两个展馆：一个是客房，另一个是附属空间，在东面新建一套住宅，增加一层空间，以容纳一家人，并将悉尼盆地周围的灌木丛和东边景色吸引到海港和城市。

The clients originally wanted to maintain the two existing pavilions: one for guest accommodation and the other for ancillary spaces and create a new dwelling to the east, increasing floor space to accommodate a family and capture the surrounding bushland and easterly views across the Sydney basin to the harbour and city.

ASA提出了一种以尊重核心区和尽可能多地利用现有建筑形式、服务和结构来减少浪费和管理成本的主要原则的另一种思考方法。由此产生了对现有的“L-House”的重新解释：为父母们重新使用东北展馆，流向一个新的中央家庭纽带，这将引导景观的水平变化，连接现有的东西展馆、儿童区、办公室和附属空间。这种建筑形式的整合创造了一个单一的东部高地，在那里，从多个居住空间可以欣赏到城市天际线的全景。

ASA proposed an alternate way of thinking about the site with the main principles of respecting the bushland at the core and re-using as much of the existing built form, services and structure as possible to reduce waste and manage costs. From this re-interpretation of the existing “L-House” was created: re-using the north-eastern pavilion for the parents, flowing to a new central family link, which would navigate the level changes in the landscape to connect with the existing east-west pavilion, housing the children’s area, an office and ancillary spaces. This consolidation of the built form created a single eastern elevation where the sweeping views to the city skyline could be appreciated from multiple living spaces.

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反过来说，L形房屋形成了一个新的西部入口，在你进入这片土地的时候，就可以领略到天然灌木丛地环境的欣赏。西面的低窗墙比使人们得以庆祝圆滑的锌钙质熔覆层。该材料的简单和节奏提供了一个鲜明的对比，自然灌木丛，与锌斑驳的接近，反映了一天的颜色。然而，这种材料也有更大的用途：防火。接近天然灌木丛地意味着外部围护必须是坚固的和不可燃的，以满足最高水平的丛林防火建设设置在最初的2003年DA。因此，房子被有效地包裹在锌斑纹覆盖层上，用野火等级的硬木作为特征元素来软化连接的瞬间。

Conversely, the L-shaped house formed a new western entry to the property to curate the appreciation of the natural bushland setting as you enter the site. The low window-to-wall ratio on the west enabled a celebration of the sleek zincalume cladding. The simplicity and rhythm of the material provides a striking contrast to the natural bushland, with the zincalume shimmering on approach, reflecting the colours of the day. The material however also serves a greater purpose: fire protection. The close proximity of the natural bushland meant the external envelope had to be robust and non-combustible in order to meet the highest level of bushfire protection construction set in the original 2003 DA. As such, the house is effectively wrapped in zincalume cladding with bushfire rated hardwood used as feature elements to soften moments of connection.

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对于改造和加法，L-House达到了一个坚实的NatHERS等级7.6星，远远超过2014年S96批准要求的4颗星。已经采取了许多措施来确保L-House为其居民提供高性能的热封套，以应对林登的极端高温和寒冷，这些措施包括：拆除旧的楼阁和完全重新隔热，使用热破坏的窗框和降低窗墙比。这意味着L-House的峰值需求较低，这反过来又降低了高峰日的总体住宅需求，澳斯格栅估计，这将使其发电站的规模增加147%，是向绿色电网转移的关键举措。

For an alteration and addition L-House achieves a solid NATHERS rating of 7.6 stars, well exceeding the 4 stars required in the 2014 s96 approval. Many initiatives have been undertaken to ensure L-House provides a high performance thermal envelope for its residents to cope with the extreme heat and cold of Linden, these include: stripping back the old pavilions and completely re-insulating, using thermally broken window frames and lowering the window to wall ratio. This means L-House has a lower peak demand which in turn reduces the overall residential demand on peak days, which Ausgrid estimates increases the size of their power stations by 147% and is a key initiative on moving to a greener grid.

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设计和施工团队以综合的方式管理环境保护、缓解丛林火灾以及服务和结构的再利用的复杂性。结果是一个精心设计的家，庆祝它的自然环境，并提供一个低运作能源舒适的家。

The design and construction teams worked in an integrated manner to manage the complexities of environmental protection, bushfire mitigation and the re-use of services and structure. The outcome is a highly crafted home that celebrates its natural environment and delivers a low operational energy comfortable home.

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巴顿·泰勒