Rock Creek House NADAAA

2017-02-13 09:00

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架构师提供的文本描述。岩溪屋是一个适应性的再利用项目的一个20年代的砖结构，最初是由两层楼，一个机械地下室和阁楼。这种适应利用现有结构的稳健性，捕捉阁楼和地下室，使房子的面积翻一番，同时将其功能扩展到景观中。

Text description provided by the architects. The Rock Creek House is an adaptive re-use project of a 1920’s brick structure that was originally composed of two floors, with a mechanical basement and attic. This adaptation leverages the robustness of the existing structure to capture the attic and basement to double the house’s size, while expanding its functions into the landscape.

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 Plan / Facade

计划/立面

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虽然北部街道的外观保持相对完整-正式的、与世隔绝的和组成的-但南方对岩溪的曝光率却更加慷慨。通过扩大玻璃面积，并在房间及其各自的孔之间建立更精确的关系，在南方建立了一个新的建筑秩序-更加非正式、开放和与自然对话。

While the northern street façade remains relatively intact --formal, insular, and composed-- the southern exposure to Rock Creek is made more generous. By expanding the areas of glazing and establishing a more precise relationship between rooms and their respective apertures, a new architectural order is established on the south – more informal, open and in dialogue with nature.

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 © John Horner

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由砖块组成的周界结构墙，围绕南北偏压重新组织，以标志着北部正式和封闭空间向南部非正式和裸露空间的轴向过渡。与此相对应的是，内部结构框架向东向西延伸，连接着砖墙，而顶部则是一层叠层胶合板，为房屋的设计提供服务。南北向和房子的方向连在一起。所有元素都包含在这些层次分明的条纹中：楼梯、壁橱、座椅、窗框等等。从北面的实心立面到南面的透明玻璃幕墙，房屋的构造强化了这一转变。

The perimeter structural wall, composed of brick, is reorganized around a north-south bias to mark the axial transition of formal and closed spaces on the north, to the informal and exposed spaces of the south. In correspondence to this, internal structural framing runs east-west, connecting the brick party walls, while topped with a cladding of laminated plywood that serves the program of the house, running north-south in tandem with the orientation of the house. All elements are incorporated into these laminar striations: stairs, closets, seats, window frames, among other components. From a solid facade on the North to a transparent and glazed facade to the south, the tectonics of the house reinforces this transformation.

 © John Horner

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 © John Horner

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最突出的空间干预是两个多高度空间的引入。第一层将入门层与花园层连接起来，与延伸到南方景观的新起居室相连。第二个垂直空间将入口连接到以前的阁楼，现在是一个由天窗覆盖的戏剧阁楼。有了这两种干预措施，曾经分层的存储、卧室、工作区和生活区就变得无缝地交织在一起。

The most salient spatial intervention is the introduction of two multi-height spaces. The first connects the entry level down to the garden level, with a new living room that extends to the southern landscape. The second vertical space connects the entry up to the former attic, now a play loft capped by a skylight. With these two interventions the once stratified realms of storage, bedrooms, work areas, and living areas become seamlessly intertwined.