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架构师提供的文本描述。这对拥有这座房子的夫妇的主要节目简介是，他们想要建造一座房子，作为他们“外面世界杂音的堡垒”，同时创造一个相当大的空间，经常用来招待朋友和客人。

Text description provided by the architects. The primary program brief from the couple who owned the house was a desire to build a house that was to be their ‘fortress from the cacophony of the world outside’ while creating a sizable space to be used frequently for entertaining friends and guests.

 Ground Floor Plan

参考堡垒作为入门，项目的正式发展，试图平衡从外部隐私/保护的需要，同时为社会参与开发分层和分层的开放空间。

Referencing forts as a primer the formal development of the project attempts to balance a need for privacy/protection from the outside while developing layered and tiered open spaces for social engagement.

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Privacy & Scale

我们的第一项努力是将隐私的概念与规模的概念拉开距离。从形式上说，边界墙成为三个平行石灰石复合墙的一部分，这些墙设置了它们之间的程序，并随着它们从街道上获得距离，将房屋缩小到人的比例，它们的高度也随之上升。

Our first effort was to distance the notion of privacy from that of scale. Formally the boundary wall becomes part of the three parallel limestone clad wall set that configure program between them and ascend in height as they gain distance from the street scaling the house down to human proportions.

向外穿庭院服

Wearing the Courtyard Inside Out

这种隐私和气候保护的需要，在南侧街道(以减轻严酷的南方太阳)创造了一个基本上是不透风的外观。这种结构的坚固性一旦被分段重叠和连接的多层混合庭院完全摧毁，这个混合庭院既是内部的，也是外部的，因此成为客户所需要的巨大娱乐空间的容器。这种空虚/庭院切断了房子的截面宽度，成为独立可访问的私人(家庭)和公共(工作)链的程序连接。

This need for privacy and climatic sheltering on the south side street (to mitigate the harsh southern sun) creates a largely impervious facade. The solidity of this construct is completely obliterated once inside the house by sectional overlapping and linked multilevel a hybrid courtyard that is both internalised and external and hence becomes a container for the massive entertainment space required by the client.  This void/court cuts the through the sectional width of the house becoming a programmatic connect for the independently accessible strands of private (family) and public (work &entertainment) spaces that intersect in the physical centre of the house. 

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Architects Sameep Padora & Associates

Location Ambavaram, India

Category Houses

Design Team Viresh Mhatre, Harsha Nalwaya, Aanoshka Choksi, Mythili Shetty

Area 1300.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs Edmund Sumner