House W Atelier About Architecture

2017-08-03 22:00

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架构师提供的文本描述。花了三年的时间来完成W屋的设计，其间进行了多次的重新设计和调整。建筑工作室付出了巨大的努力，这一过程见证了自己的成长。作为项目的业主，建筑师二人在设计过程中扮演甲方和乙方的角色，关键是要明确人们对生活的期望，并以绝对的诚意解决可能出现的问题。

Text description provided by the architects. It took three years to complete the design of House W with numerous redesign and adjustments in between. Atelier About Architecture has invested great effort and the process witnessed its own growth. As the owners of the project, the architect duo was playing as both Party A and Party B during design, and the key is to clarify the expectations on living and to solve possible problems with absolute sincerity.

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W屋的设计在一开始受到两种物理条件的挑战：冬季场地温度极低，因为建筑物背靠着山坡休息，因此需要确保室内保温在寒冷天气下足够强，同时保证节能；同时也是一项艰巨的工作，既要满足建筑保温的严格要求，又要在建筑中创造人文环境。在大多数情况下，房间将沿计划的四面排列，因此，中心区域将几乎没有阳光，变得死气沉沉和寒冷。当体积变大时，一般情况会变得更糟，这会给供暖和通风带来更多的困难。

The design of House W was challenged by two physical conditions at the beginning: the temperature at the site is extremely low in winter because the building is rested with its back against the hillside, therefore we need to ensure the heat preservation inside will be strong enough under cold weather while to guarantee energy efficiency; it is also a tough job to meet the strict requirements on heat preservation and to create humanistic environment in the building at the same time. In most circumstances, rooms will be arrayed along the four sides of the plan; therefore, the area in the center will barely share any sunlight and become inanimate and cold. The situation generally gets worse when the volume turns larger, which will bring more difficulties to the heating and ventilation.

这座建筑背靠着山坡，允许寒冷的空气在冬季沿着北面冲刷。AAA定义了建筑的程序，以及基于场地和阳光的窗户的大小和位置。外墙用150毫米保温板包裹，加上中庭巨大的玻璃盒，在冬季提供持续的热量。根据第一个采暖季节采集的数据进行的实验证明，冬季室内温度将达到平均11度，不需要任何加热设备。同时，由于自然气流的作用，将从地下室引入冷空气，并将其从内部排出，以降低室内温度。

The building is standing with its back against the hillside, allowing the cold air to scour along the north façade in winter. AAA defined the program of the building as well as the sizes and positions of the windows based on the site and sunlight. The outside walls were wrapped with 150mm insulation panels, plus the huge glass box in the atrium, providing continuous heat in winter. As proved by the experiment on the data collected in the first heating season, the temperature of the interior will reach an average level of 11 degree in winter without turning on any heating equipment. Meanwhile, cool air will be introduced from the basement and discharged from the inside as a result of natural airflow to reduce the indoor temperature.

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 Ground Floor Plan

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AAA还邀请清华大学建筑技术研究院在实现W屋后进行为期半年的专业考试，希望能建设一座完全符合国际标准的被动式住宅。

AAA also invited Architecture and Technology Research Institute of Tsinghua University to carry out a half-year professional examination after the realization of House W with the aspiration of building a passive house that completely meets international standards.

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AAA根据我们自己的生活习惯对每个独立房间进行了仔细的测量，并以6米的柱子宽度定义了每个空间的体积，而不是盲目地最大化空间。在这个充斥着过多视觉信息的浮躁时代，建筑本身变得越来越像画化了，人们更容易被建筑物的照片所吸引，而不是建筑物本身。然而，建筑的真正美，以及抽象和空间的相关性，都超出了图像的表达范围。建筑只能通过个人经验来理解。

AAA made careful measurements on each independent room according to our own living habits, and have defined the volume of each space by column width of 6 meters instead of blindly maximizing the space. In this blundering era with excessive visual information, architecture itself has become more and more pictorialized where people are more likely to be attracted by the photos of a building instead of the building itself. However, the real beauty of architecture, as well as the abstraction and the relevance of spaces, are beyond the expression by images. Architecture can only be understood through personal experience.

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马丁·海德格尔认为，诗意栖居不仅是诗性的观赏性，也是生活在诗歌中的意义。生活的舒适度在任何时候都是不可回避的因素。奥地利建筑师阿道夫·卢斯(AdolfLoos)在他的文章“装饰品与犯罪”中，主张把装饰品从物体上移除，因为他认为装饰品是欺诈。AAA受到了极大的启发，因此拒绝了所有观赏性元素在这个项目中的视觉影响，最终呈现出一个“真诚”的建筑，真正满足了我们对生活的期望。

Martin Heidegger believed that poetic dwelling is not only about poetic watching, but also about living in poetry. The comfort of living is an evitable element in any time. In his article Ornament and Crime (Ornament und Verbrechen),Austrian architect Adolf Loos advocated for removing ornaments from objects as he saw ornament as fraud. AAA was greatly inspired and therefore rejected all ornamental elements for visual impact in this project to ultimately present a “sincere” building that truly meets our expectation on living.