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架构师提供的文本描述。东温哥华的平房是从质量重于数量开始的。我们的客户仔细考虑了他们建造独栋住宅所需的空间，选择不为该地段建造最大允许的楼面面积，这明显违背了温哥华的标准，那里的房产价值是天文数字。

Text description provided by the architects. The Grade House in East Vancouver began with a focus on quality over quantity. Our clients carefully considered the space they needed to build their single family home, opting not to build the maximum allowable floor area for the lot, a move distinctly against the norm in Vancouver where property values are astronomical.

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 Floor Plan

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对我们的设计专业和学术客户来说，优化主楼层居住空间与花园的等级关系是很重要的。这一愿望，再加上保持建筑物小的要求，提供了一个优雅的解决方案。从这些考虑中产生的楼板设计，使这座33英尺x120‘地块的景观机会最大化，将主层完工后的地板保持在外级上方，并消除了窗户井。该方案保持开放，形式简单。前花园和后花园可以看到的景观将空间的感觉远远超出了建筑的范围，在空间内提供了慷慨的体验，同时保持了较小的脚印。

It was important to our clients, a design professional and academic, to optimize the grade relationship of the main floor living space with the garden. This desire, combined with the mandate to keep the building small, enabled an elegant solution.  The slab-on-grade design that emerged from these considerations maximized the landscape opportunities of this 33' x 120' lot by keeping the main level finished floor just above the exterior grades and eliminated window wells.   The plan was kept open and the form simple. Views available to the front and rear garden extend the sense of space far beyond the building's envelope, providing the experience of generosity within the spaces while keeping the footprint small.

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在施工过程中，我们正在进行修改，以确保只包括对设计至关重要的元素。在客户的需求面前，我们通过使用立缝金属、灰泥覆层、铝窗和抛光混凝土地板，努力实现一座简单、低维护的建筑。因此，该项目在10个月内建成，并在施工开始时提供的雄心勃勃的预算估计数的5%内成功交付。

The construction process involved ongoing edits to ensure that only elements essential to the design were included.  With the client’s needs at the fore, we worked to achieve a simple, low maintenance building through the use of standing seam metal, stucco cladding, aluminum windows and a polished concrete floor throughout. As a result this project was built within 10 months and successfully delivered within 5% of the ambitious budget estimate provided at the outset of construction.

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Architects Measured Architecture

Location Vancouver, Canada

Category Houses

Project Year 2015

Photographs Andrew Latreille