架构师提供的文本描述。院落位于亚利桑那州图森市的一个不起眼的分区中，是对郊区住宅区的一种沙漠极简主义改造。

Text description provided by the architects. Situated in a nondescript subdivision in Tucson, Arizona, the Courtyards House is a desert minimalist reinvention of residential suburban inhabitation.

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住宅的居住空间由六个单独的庭院组成，或由六个单独的庭院组成。空间边界被定义，但流动，光，视图和访问从家庭的一部分流动到下一个。每个庭院都有着明显的亚利桑纳州南部标本，提供了专注和释放的时刻-前景和中间地带适合背景和远处的山景。

Conceived as a series of interlocking interior and exterior volumes, the living spaces of the home contain, or are contained by six individual courtyards. Spatial boundaries are defined, yet fluid, with light, views and access flowing from one part of the home to the next. Each courtyard is distinctly xeriscaped with southern Arizona specimens, providing moments of focus and release – foreground and middle ground lend themselves to background and the distant mountain views beyond.

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Timmerman摄影/Bill Timmerman

 © Timmerman Photography / Bill Timmerman

Timmerman摄影/Bill Timmerman

庭院，以及他们定义的边界，也起到了一个纲领性的作用：为客户的十一只救生猫“分区”房子。猫的食宿扩展到橱柜的设计，它包含了各种各样的隐藏和游戏空间。

The courtyards, and the boundaries they define, also serve a programmatic role: to “zone” the house for the clients’ eleven rescue cats. Feline accommodation extends to the design of cabinetry, which incorporates a variety of hiding and play spaces.

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庭院之家也是图森艺术家为客户收藏绘画和照片的画廊。在许多情况下，个别艺术作品的颜色和构图是由相邻的复写体，或通过家庭的建筑发挥光影。白色的内墙和外墙是记录时间气氛的画布-白天和夜晚沙漠天空的微妙之处和反差。

The Courtyards House also serves as a gallery for the clients’ collection of paintings and photographs by Tucson artists. In many cases, the colors and compositions of the individual art pieces are complimented by the adjacent xeriscapes, or through the home’s architectural play of light-and- shadow. The white interior and exterior walls act as a canvas for registering temporal atmospheres – the subtleties and contrasts imbued by the desert sky throughout the day and night.

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