Switchback House Edmonds + Lee Architects

2017-06-20 17:00

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架构师提供的文本描述。对于他们自己的房子，维维安·李(Vivian Lee)和罗伯特·埃德蒙兹(Robert Edmonds)对旧金山的许可过程有着非凡的洞察力，他们每周7天24小时都可以讨论理想的钢筋和最好的窗框，以及经验丰富的建筑师们最终建造自己梦想的房子所带来的特别自由。

Text description provided by the architects. For their own house, partners Vivian Lee and Robert Edmonds had the peculiar luxury of extraordinary insight into San Francisco’s permitting process, 24/7 access to each other for discussions of ideal rebar and the best window frames, and the particular freedom that comes from being experienced architects finally doing their own— dream—house.

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实际上，这对有两个孩子的夫妇需要(至少)三间卧室和足够的居住空间，让他们的家庭感觉到完美的位置：距离他们现在年轻的孩子不需要被排挤在地下室或阁楼里，但最终足够宽敞，随着他们的成长，他们可以变得独立-彼此之间，以及他们的父母。埃德蒙兹·李还决定将他们的建筑分成两个单元，利用李的开发专长，结合埃德蒙兹的建筑重点。较低的楼层可以-目前也是作为一种创收的租金-使用，但这套房子的设计非常灵活，业主可以将结构改造成一个单一的家庭住宅。他们不仅作为自己的客户，而且也作为自己的开发人员，能够避免典型的市场驱动的压力，最大限度地扩大平方英尺，而是专注于质量问题。因此，他们能够创造性地工作-把起居室放在顶层，把卧室放在较低的层-让他们想要的那种阁楼式生活的感觉变得生动起来，而又不放弃他们周围的亲密邻居的感觉。

Practically, the pair, who have two children, needed (at least) three bedrooms and enough living space for their family to feel perfectly situated: close enough that their now-youngish children didn’t have to be sidelined into a basement or attic, but ultimately spacious enough that as they do grow up, they can become independent - from each other, and from their parents. Edmonds + Lee also decided to divide their building into two units, making use of Lee’s development expertise combined with Edmonds’ architectural focus. The lower floor can be—and currently is used as—an income-producing rental, but the house is designed flexibly enough that the owners can turn the structure back into a single-family home. Working as not only their own clients but also their own developers, they were able to avoid the typical market-driven pressure of maximizing square feet and instead focus on qualitative issues. As a result, they were able to work creatively—by flipping the plan to place the living room on the top floor and bedrooms on the lower level— to bring to life the feeling of loft-style living that they wanted, without giving up the intimate neighborhood feel of their immediate surroundings.

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由于埃德蒙兹·李的许多实践都是围绕着多家庭建筑，建筑师们庆祝了这个项目给街道带来的城市密度。对于那些有资源的人来说，尝试和隔离旧金山，利用分区和建筑来保护自己和他们的家庭免受日益密集的城市的侵袭，这是很有吸引力的，但埃德蒙兹和李想要庆祝这种密度，同时仍然创造一个感觉轻盈、通风、宽敞和对天空开放的室内空间。

Because much of Edmonds + Lee’s practice is centered around multifamily buildings, the architects celebrated the urban density this project brings to the street. While it can feel compelling for those who have the resources to do so to try and insulate themselves from San Francisco, to use zoning and architecture to protect themselves and their families from the possible encroachment of an ever-densifying city, Edmonds and Lee wanted to celebrate the density, while still creating an interior space that feels light, airy, spacious, and open to the sky.

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他们熟悉常见的建筑限制因素，因此很容易被优先考虑：护栏是简单的干墙，楼梯是油漆钢的，房子的许多细节都是创造性地使用日常材料。立面是由预先制作的装饰板组成的有节奏的展示；水槽是由柯里安模塑而成的；建筑师们进行了终极宜家Hack的设计：测量这家大型零售商货架的标准尺寸，并建造符合厘米的壁橱空间，为价格的一小部分创造一种定制的毫升级美感。这是这栋房子的魅力所在。它是由那些真正生活在预算范围内的人建造的，他们有兴趣在预算范围内建造房子，他们经历了财政和设计上的限制，但他们接受并庆祝了这些限制，并利用这些限制产生了令人难以置信的创造性和美学上有说服力的解决方案。在Switchback上的工作让埃德蒙兹和李想起了他们在哥伦比亚大学的时光，因为这几乎变成了一个学校的项目，部分是不可动摇的规则，同时也是一种不可动摇的兴奋。

Their familiarity with common architectural constraints led to an ease of priority: the guardrails are simple drywall, the stair is painted steel, and much of the house's detailing made creative use of everyday materials. The facade is built from a rhythmic display of pre-manufactured trim boards; the sinks are molded Corian; and and the architects undertook the ultimate Ikea Hack: measuring the standard size of the big-box retailer’s shelving, and building closet spaces to fit to the centimeter, creating a custom millwork-level aesthetic for a fraction of the price. And that’s central to the magic of the house; it was built by people who really do live within a budget, who had a vested interested in building within that budget, who experience financial as well as design constraints, but who embraced and celebrated these limitations and used them to give rise to incredibly creative and aesthetically compelling solutions. Working on Switchback reminded Edmonds and Lee of their time at Columbia as it became almost like a school project, part unshakable rules, and equal part unshakable excitement for pushing the envelope wherever it can be furthered.