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架构师提供的文本描述。GrowBox是位于马里兰州列克星敦的1，975个SF之家，专为麻省理工学院工程教授、他的妻子和他们的小儿子设计。房子周围的景观是(而且现在仍然是)原始的，精心种植的植物和40多个不同品种的日本枫树精心栽培和维护由客户。现有花园的范围限制了新房子的占地面积，但也启发了一种利用景观影响空间的建筑，这种空间的扩展超出了房屋的实际范围。由此产生的设计是一个紧凑的体积穿透槽花园和入口甲板，这两个德fiNe空间在房子内，并侵蚀了内部和外部的边界。

Text description provided by the architects. Grow Box is a 1,975 sf home in Lexington, MA, designed for an MIT University Professor of Engineering, his wife, and their young son. The landscape surrounding the house was (and still is) in pristine condition, with elaborate plantings and over 40 different varieties of Japanese maple trees painstakingly cultivated and maintained by the clients. The extents of the existing gardens limited the footprint of the new house, but inspired an architecture that utilizes landscape to affect space that expands beyond the physical limits of the house. The resulting design is a compact volume penetrated by slot gardens and entry decks that both define space within the house, and erode the boundary between interior and exterior.

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为了详细阐述我们在社会门槛和扩大边界条件方面的兴趣，我们在这个用Cor-10钢包裹的1，975 SF两层“盒子”的内部，加入了六个凹进的外部花园。每一个凹的花园都扩展和协商一种新型的标准程序之间的关系：床和浴室，厨房和生活，楼上和楼下。这些外部空间的口袋嵌套在内部，创造了空间扩张的感觉，同时矛盾地压缩了空间。这些空间追求一个奇怪的联系和社会动态之间的用户在这些不同角落的房子。空间缓冲器能够通过透明和空间分层来放大和帧。

In an effort to elaborate on our interests in social threshold and expanded boundary conditions, we incorporated six recessed exterior gardens within the interior of this tight 1,975 sf two-story ‘box’ wrapped in Cor-ten steel. Each recessed garden expands and negotiates a new type of relationship between standard programs: bed and bath, kitchen and living, upstairs and downstairs. These pockets of exterior space nested within the interior create the perception of spatial expansion while paradoxically compressing it. These spaces pursue a curious connection and social dynamic between the users within these various corners of the house. A spatial buffer is able to amplify and frame through transparence and spatial layering.

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凹槽花园的几何组织由一个fiv英尺由6英尺中央“内陆”庭院花园在第一层，其中包含一棵喜马拉雅山桦树。这座花园，夏天会下雨，冬天会下雪，突出了一个人对这些元素的体验，它是家庭的字面和隐喻的中心。每个立面上的入口都提供了通往院子的便捷通道，而丰富的可操作的窗户、滑动门和框架景观则加强了房子和花园之间的相互关系。在外观上，房屋的坚硬几何图形和曲折的景观之间的视觉对比被构成房屋覆层的风化钢板的原始色调增强和模糊。开槽花园周围的大面积玻璃和从fl到天花板的窗户fl等周围的树木和植物，进一步模糊了建筑和自然之间的区别。

The slot recessed gardens are organized geometrically by one five foot by six foot central “landlocked” courtyard garden on the first level that contains a single Himalayan birch tree. This garden, which will collect rain in the summer and snow in the winter, underlines one’s experience of the elements as the literal and metaphorical centerpiece of the home. Entryways on each facade provide ready access to the yard, while copious operable windows, sliding doors, and framed views reinforce the reciprocal relationship between house and garden. On the exterior, the visual contrast between the hard geometry of the house and the sinuous landscape is both enhanced and obfuscated by the raw hue of the weathering steel panels that comprise the house cladding. Large areas of glazing surrounding the slot gardens and floor to ceiling windows reflect the surrounding trees and plantings, further blurring the distinction between architecture and nature.

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Architects Merge Architects

Location Lexington, United States

Lead Architect Elizabeth Whittaker

Area 1975.0 ft2

Project Year 2016

Photographs John Horner Photography

Category Houses

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