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架构师提供的文本描述。古巴住宅是基多Cumbayá山谷一处安静住宅区现有住宅的补充。客户要求扩展到原来的房子，包括一个卧室，它的服务，和一个小的社交区域。当时的想法是，这将是原建筑的一个单独的组成部分，而不是房子的延伸。

Text description provided by the architects. CUBO house is an addition to an existing house in a quiet residential area in the valley of Cumbayá in Quito. The client required an extension to the original house to include one bedroom, its services, and a small social area. The idea was always that this would be a separate element of the original building and not an extension of the house.

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程序的类型和简单性都使我们认为该项目是一个反映其类型的简单和棱镜的对象。本质上，它是创造一个中立的元素，不一定要与现有房屋的设计对话，但既不与它竞争。

Both the type as well as the simplicity of the program led us to think of the project as a simple and prismatic object that reflects its typology. In essence, it is to create a neutral element that does not necessarily have to dialogue with the design of the existing house but neither to compete with it.

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这种简单的形式也与一个小房子的基本程序相一致。

This simplicity of form is also coherent with a basic program for a small house.

因此，该问题的体系结构解决方案是一个精确维数的立方体(x，y，z)和一个几乎单一的抽象。这一抽象也转化为该项目的建设，通过四种材料构成整个组装：金属、混凝土、木材和玻璃，反映了项目的简单性。

Thus, the architectural solution to the problem is a cube of exact dimensions (x, y, z), and an almost monolithic abstraction. This abstraction is also translated into the construction of the project reflecting its simplicity through four materials that make up the entire assembly: Metal, concrete, wood and glass.

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立方体由四面包覆的金属“骨架”组成，表面和底部都可以感受到外部和内部的混凝土。房屋内部的骨架或金属结构全部暴露，由于所有垂直表面都是灰色混凝土，天花板和地板上的所有水平表面都是木制的。

The Cube is composed of a metal "skeleton" clad on four sides, with a concrete top and bottom that can be felt both outside and inside the space. The skeleton or metal structure is expressed inside the house with all the elements exposed, and as all the vertical surfaces are gray concrete, all horizontal surfaces both in ceilings and floors are made of 

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最后，程序所要求的隐私使得多维数据集几乎是一个坚实和不可渗透的元素。根据立方体的合理性，对洞口、门窗进行了调整和配比。

Finally, the privacy required by the program makes cube an almost solid and impermeable element. The openings, windows and doors are modulated and proportioned according to the rationality of the cube.

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Architects Diez+Muller Arquitectos

Location Quito, Ecuador

Category Extension

Project Architects Gonzalo Diez P., Felipe Muller B.

Project Area 95.0 m2

Project Year 2015

Photographs Sebastian Crespo