Grow Box Merge Architects

2016-07-21 08:00

 © John Horner

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架构师提供的文本描述。GrowBox是位于马里兰州列克星敦的一栋1975平方英尺(185平方米)的住宅，专为麻省理工学院教授、他的妻子和他们的小儿子设计。房子周围的景观精心种植，40多种不同品种的日本枫树精心栽培和维护。

Text description provided by the architects. Grow Box is a 1975sf (185 m2) home in Lexington, MA, designed for an MIT University Professor, his wife, and their young son. The landscape surrounding the house is elaborately planted, with over 40 different varieties of Japanese maple trees painstakingly cultivated and maintained by the clients.

 © John Horner

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现有花园的范围限制了新房子的占地面积，并启发了一种利用景观影响空间的建筑，这种空间的扩展超出了房屋的实际范围。由此产生的设计是一个紧凑的体积穿透槽花园和入口甲板，这两个德ﬁNe空间在房子内，并侵蚀了内部和外部的边界。

The extents of the existing gardens limited the footprint of the new house, and inspired an architecture that utilizes landscape to affect space that expands beyond the physical limits of the house. The resulting design is a compact volume penetrated by slot gardens and entry decks that both deﬁne space within the house, and erode the boundary between interior and exterior.

 © John Horner

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凹槽花园的几何组织由一个中央庭院花园，其中包含一棵喜马拉雅山桦树。这座花园，夏天会下雨，冬天会下雪，突出了一个人对这些元素的体验，它是家庭的字面和隐喻的中心。

The slot recessed gardens are organized geometrically by a central courtyard garden that contains a single Himalayan birch tree. This garden, which will collect rain in the summer and snow in the winter, underlines one’s experience of the elements as the literal and metaphorical centerpiece of the home.

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 Floor Plan

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 Floor Plan

在室内，每个房间与至少一个花园成对，其中深凹的矩形比例使客户能够在视觉上居住在花园中，同时保持与邻近房屋和邻近街道的隐私。

On the interior, each room is paired with at least one garden, the deep recessed rectangular proportions of which allow the clients to visually inhabit the garden while maintaining privacy from the neighboring houses and adjacent street.

 © John Horner

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在外观上，房子的清晰几何图形和曲折的景观之间有趣的视觉对比被风化钢覆层的树干色调所增强和模糊。狭长花园周围的大面积玻璃和ﬂ从屋顶到天花板的窗户ﬂ等周围的树木和植物，进一步模糊了建筑和自然之间的区别。

On the exterior, the intriguing visual contrast between the crisp geometry of the house and the sinuous landscape is both enhanced and obfuscated by the tree-trunk hue of the weathering steel cladding. Large areas of glazing surrounding the slot gardens and ﬂoor-to-ceiling windows reﬂect the surrounding trees and plantings, further blurring the distinction between architecture and nature.