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架构师提供的文本描述。小径基金会的设计简报看起来很简单：它要求用两个低维护、耐用和安全的新设施来取代一个过时和破旧的厕所。该遗址位于奥斯汀市中心的湖畔，需要得到同等的关注，以确保这些建筑能够强化公园作为城市绿洲的特性。我们提出了一个解决方案，让所有感官都参与进来，并实现了TTF和奥斯汀市公园部门的目标，主要是通过考虑耐久性、功能性、强烈的安全感和大量的通风，同时也为居住者创造了一种喘息的感觉。

Text description provided by the architects. The Trail Foundation’s design brief was deceptively simple: it asked for an outdated and dilapidated restroom to be replaced with two new facilities that would be low-maintenance, durable, and safe. Located along the lake in the heart of Austin, the site demanded equal attention to ensure that these structures would reinforce the park’s character as an oasis in the city. We derived a solution that engaged all the senses and achieved the goals of both TTF and the City of Austin Parks Department, primarily through the considerations of durability, functionality, a strong sense of safety and lots of ventilation all while creating a sense of respite for the occupant.

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围护达到很高，同时保持一个较小的足迹，创造了大量的体积和大量的开口，框架的天空和树木的看法。氧化钢帐篷的下摆从地面上抬起，允许气流流动，并允许乘员通过对周边进行监测而感到安全。门是由一个超大的，长抛螺栓杠杆，加强你的安全感，感觉和听起来更像一个保险库被固定。斑驳的光流从大的开口流进来，就像树枝一样。

The enclosures reach high while maintaining a small footprint, creating lots of volume and plenty of openings that frame views of the sky and trees. The lower hem of the oxidizing steel tents are lifted off the ground, allowing for airflow and the ability for the occupant to feel safe by monitoring the perimeter. The door is latched by an oversized, long throw bolt lever that fortifies your sense of safety by feeling and sounding more like a vault being secured. Dappled light streams in through the large openings as do the tree branches. 

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这些新的厕所设施吸收了直接站点的结构和元素，并将它们组织成一些新的东西。该遗址既是田野，也是森林，夏天被斑驳的光线遮住，冬天则透过光秃秃的枝条给城市景色增添光彩。混凝土端墙支撑和封闭建筑物和凹槽，以创造门廊。这两种结构被缩放到周围的景观中，彼此略微倾斜，几何学上的细微变化使它们的形态不同，并赋予它们一种个性感。这两条河之间的分离是由夏至轴分开的，它也指向湖对岸最重要的巴顿小溪的入口处。

These new restroom facilities take in the textures and elements of the immediate site, and organize them into something new. The site is both field and forest, shaded by dappled light in the summer and graced with urban views through bare branches in the winter. Concrete end walls brace and enclose the buildings and are recessed to create porches. The two structures are scaled to the surrounding landscape, facing one another slightly askew with subtle shifts in geometry that differentiate their form and give them a sense of personality. The separation between the two is bisected by the axis of the solstice, which also points to the mouth of the all-important Barton Creek on the opposite shore of the lake.

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Architects Mell Lawrence Architects

Location 1125 W Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78703, United States

Lead Architects Mell Lawrence, Hector Martell, Elizabeth Baird

Area 460.0 ft2

Project Year 2015

Photographs Whit Preston

Category Small Scale

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