Westport River House Ruhl Walker Architects

2015-03-27 18:00

架构师提供的文本描述。建在西波特河上的缓坡上，距离马萨诸塞州东南部海岸不到一英里的地方，是一座为一位著名的剑桥总承包商和他的妻子设计的毫不掩饰的现代玻璃房子。成熟的橡树和雪松定义了地产的边缘和框架，戏剧性的日落和岛屿景观。该建筑表达了业主的社交生活方式，并容纳了他们的热情烹饪和娱乐他们的一大群忠实的朋友。

Text description provided by the architects. Built on a gentle slope on the Westport River, less than a mile from the coast in southeastern Massachusetts is an unabashedly modern glass house designed for a well known Cambridge general contractor and his wife. Mature oaks and cedars define the property edges and frame dramatic sunset and island views. The architecture expresses the owners’ gregarious way of life, and accommodates their passions for cooking and entertaining their large group of devoted friends.

从技术上讲，这座房子是一次翻新，回收了早期人造的“Saltbox殖民地”房屋的地基。从概念上讲，两座长而低的酒吧建筑浮在被雕塑的草坪梯田之上，它们走到河边，互相滑动，以增强景观和交叉通风。这条河边的栏杆高10英尺，长80英尺，是一堵连续的玻璃墙，可以看到河流的景致，而内陆的河堤则更短、更坚固，窗户打开，可以看到精心编辑的森林景观。在这两根栅栏之间，有一个紧凑型的循环区，它的一端是一扇面向森林的从地板到天花板的窗户。主屋顶的排水沟就在上面，形成了一个雨水瀑布，它溢出到下面地面上的一个钢制的、长方形的河床上。

The house is technically a renovation, recycling an earlier faux “Saltbox Colonial” house’s foundation. Conceptually, two long, low bar-buildings float above sculpted lawn terraces stepping down to the river, sliding past each other to enhance views and cross ventilation. The river-side bar has a ten foot high by eighty foot long continuous wall of glass that frames views of the river, while the inland bar is shorter and more solid, with windows opening to carefully edited views of the woods.  Between the two bars is a compact circulation zone that terminates at one end in a floor-to-ceiling window facing the woods; the main roof drain is directly above, framing a rain-waterfall that spills into a steel-framed, rectangular bed of river rock in the ground below.

 First Floor Plan

一层平面图

为了控制成本，集装和装修很简单，流通空间很小，面积有限，所有空间都是多功能的，细节是现代新英格兰传统习俗的翻版。整体的开放性以及大量的玻璃装饰让房子感觉比实际的面积要大得多。在上层是一个开放的生活/餐饮/烹饪空间。毗邻的屏蔽居住/用餐空间，独立的外部甲板，用于烹饪和聚会，家庭办公室，双重客房，和一个主套房，套房浴室和墙壁内置胡桃木橱柜。新设计的现有地下室墙壁是两个卧室，共用客厅和浴室，以及一个大的存储区，有板条墙，用于划船和海滩储藏室，建造在屏蔽门廊之下。

To control costs, massing and finishes are simple, circulation space is minimal and square footage is limited, all spaces are multi-functional, and details are contemporary riffs on traditional New England conventions.  The overall openness as well as the large proportion of glazing helps the house feel much larger than its actual square footage.  On the upper level is an open living/dining/cooking space, contiguous screened living/dining space, separate exterior decks for cooking and gathering, a home office that doubles as guest room, and a master suite with en suite bath and wall of built-in walnut cabinetry. Newly designed within the existing basement walls are two bedrooms with shared sitting room and bath, as well as a large storage area with slatted walls for boating and beach storage, built below the screened porch.