架构师提供的文本描述。2010年，一对有两个孩子的年轻夫妇梦想建造自己的房子，为此，他们参加了巴西方案Minha Casa Minha Vida(我的房子，我的生活)。他们想住在父母附近，离市中心不远。

Text description provided by the architects. In 2010 a young couple with two children dreamed of building their own house, and for that, they enrolled in the Brazilian Programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida, (My house, My life). They wanted   to live near their parents and not far from the city centre.

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此外，他们希望在房屋设计过程中积极提供帮助，不仅有一个共同的标准现成的房子，因为可供选择的房屋在大多数时间。解决办法是获得财政援助。但是，他们的收入最多只能达到80，000，000雷亚尔，其中应包括购买土地和建筑价格。一项非常具有挑战性的任务。

Furthermore, they wanted to help actively in the house design process and not only have a common standard ready-made house, as the available houses of the programme are most of the time. The solution was to get financial assistance. However, their income only allowed a maximum of R$ 80.000,00, which should include the  purchase of the land and the construction price. A very challenging task.

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在选择场地后，最大的挑战是克服巴西方案Minha Casa Minha Vida的局限性，从而提供机会，以其功能、技术和美学素质，在一座具有当代建筑理念的房子中生活。可用于建造这所房子的资金很少，这就需要灵活地优化室内空间，并选择建筑材料和建筑技术。

After choosing the site, the big challenge was to overcome the limitations of the Brazilian Programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida, and so, provide the opportunity of living in a house with contemporary architectural  concepts with its functional, technical and aesthetic qualities. The low amount of money available to build the house demanded dexterity to optimise the interior spaces and for choosing building materials and construction techniques.

 Floor Plan

在功能上，房子是沿着一个宽敞的混凝土排水沟发展起来的，它位于房屋的中轴线上，比地面高出2.10米。它连接着房子的所有房间。这项战略的目的是：

Functionally, the house is developed   along a generous concrete gutter, raised 2.10m above the floor and located in the central axis of the house. It connects all the rooms of the house. This strategy is intended to:

通过构造所有不同的屋顶以收集雨水来简化建筑。消除室内横梁在门上方的必要性，因为它们都位于排水沟下面。方便未来的房子扩大过程，因为所有未来的房间可以很容易地沿混凝土排水沟建造。

Simplify the construction by structuring all the different roofs with a view to collecting the rain water. Eliminate the necessity of interior beams above the doors, because all of them are located under the gutter. Facilitate the future enlargement process of the house as all future rooms can be easily built along the concrete gutter.

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事实上，客户更喜欢向内而无开口的房子，这就要求在花园周围发展自己的设计过程。花园不仅是房子可能发生的所有活动的一部分，而且给房子带来了放大空间的感觉，即使是小的空间也是如此。房间越大越好，它改变了人们对孤立功能的看法，把它们变成了一套很好的生活空间。

The fact that the clients would prefer  an inward facing  house with no openings to the street demanded the design process to develop itself around the gardens, which not only are part of all the activities that might happen in the house, but also give the house the sense of amplified spaces, even being small ones. The rooms, as large and well integrated as possible, change the perception of isolated functions, transforming them into a set of great living spaces.

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使用低成本和容易获得的材料，再加上当地的劳动力和创造性的安排和整理方法，使其有可能取得一些软化的设计结果。与项目细节相关的大量工作使得消除一些不必要的成本成为可能，并通过在现场执行的自定义解决方案获得令人满意的结果。

The use of low cost and easily available materials, combined with local labour and creative ways of arrangements and finishing, made it possible to achieve some sofisticated design results. The extensive work involved with the detailing of the project made it possible to eliminate some unnecessary costs and to achieve satisfying results through custom solutions executed at the site.

在图片中，我们可以看到已经被居民占据的房子，还有他们的家具和个性的印记。在房子的后面，已经出现了一些对他们日常生活有必要的有益贡献。居民们利用预留的空间，在洗衣房里增加了一个屋顶，还有一个木头作为汽车的避难所。

In the pictures we can observe the house already in occupation by the residents, with their furniture and the stamp of their personality. At the back of the house, some provisory and necessary   contributions to their daily life have already appeared.  Using the reserved space, the residents added a roof to the laundry as well a wood made shelter for the car.

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巴西方案Minha Casa Minha Vida提供私人资金来购买土地和建造房屋，但由于条件和法律要求，该方案最终限制了在设计过程中发明的可能性。因此，我们认为，这座低成本的城市房屋是以其创造的空间的质量来区别的。这样的例子可以传播一系列的可能性，以建立低成本的架构，而不必求助于标准的解决方案。

The  Brazilian Programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida, which offers private financial initiative to buy the land and build the house, ends up limiting the possibilities of invention during the design process because of the conditioning and legal demands. We, therefore, consider that this low cost urban house is distinguished by   the quality of its created spaces. Examples such as this one can disseminate a range of possibilities to create   low cost architecture without being obliged to have recourse to standard solutions.

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Architects Núcleo de Arquitetura Experimental

Location Guaíba, Brazil

Category Houses

Architects in Charge Núcleo de Arquitetura Experimental

Author Arq. Alexandre Rögelin Prass

Area 74.91 sqm

Project Year 2011

Photographs Alexandre Prass