架构师提供的文本描述。这座位于新加坡中部奇尔顿大道(Chiltern Drive)的家庭住宅空间，就像一件衣服，围绕着居民的需要和愿望而编织。这个家渴望扎根，与周围的环境、发展的历史以及家庭的生活方式紧密相连。

Text description provided by the architects. The spaces in this family home on Chiltern Drive in central Singapore were crafted like a garment, woven around the needs and desires of its inhabitants.  The home aspired to be deeply rooted, connected to the surrounding environment, the history of its development, as well as the family’s lifestyle. 

这座房子是以单一整体混凝土结构建造的，浇铸混凝土的机织钢筋和原木模板已将建筑过程铭刻在其表面上，混凝土中有粗犷的线条，墙壁和石架上有钢筋的痕迹。当清晨的阳光把阴影投射到木材模板曾经在混凝土中留下的纹理的水平条带上时，对施工过程的记忆本身就标志着时间的流逝，并提醒家人他们的努力、愿望和梦想的实现。

The house was constructed as a single monolithic concrete structure.  The woven steel reinforcement and raw timber formwork into which the concrete was cast have imprinted the process of building into its surfaces, with rugged lines in the concrete and hints of steel reinforcement in the walls and ledges.  As the early morning sun casts shadows across the textured horizontal bands left behind in the concrete where the timber formwork once was, the memory of the construction process itself marks the passing of time and reminds the family of the effort, desire, and realization of their dream.

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房子内部和周围的空间是为每个家庭成员设计的，目的是享受他们自己的隐私和与自然交流，以及他们可以有意义地聚集在一起，创造和延续围绕着吃饭、问候和家庭活动的家庭仪式。这座房子是围绕着正方形几何图形设计的。但是，在这个直截了当的框架内的空间布局是一个复杂的相互作用的大和深的空间和连接延伸到整个房子的长度在不同的方向。

The spaces within and around the house were designed for each family member to enjoy their own privacy and commune with nature, as well as spaces where they could meaningfully come together in the creation and continuation of family rituals around meals, greetings, and homecomings.  The house is articulated around a square geometry in plan, but the spatial arrangement within this straightforward framework is a complex interplay of large and deep spaces and connections that stretch across the length of the house in various directions. 

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这些细长的房间吸引着他们的目光，有时与花园的景色有关，穿过延伸的窗户，避开天际线和地平线，或者把夸张的视角聚焦在房间里的特定元素上。房间内以及从空间到空间的这些视觉联系，有助于让居民们团结起来，让他们了解彼此在房子内的行动，并将房屋与周围环境紧密联系在一起。

These elongated rooms draw the eye across them, at times relating to the views of the garden, across extended windows that skirt the skyline and horizon or to focus the exaggerated perspectives on select elements within a room.  These visual connections within the rooms as well as from space to space help to unite the inhabitants and make them aware of each other’s movements within the house as well as strongly link the house to its surrounding environment.

客厅和餐厅在一个连续的空间中连接，一端有一个游泳池，另一端有一个后花园。沿着房间的长度，墙上的褶皱上有一个低矮的海湾窗台，一个长长的水平窗口打开，与景观有着密切而直接的联系。除了可以舒适地容纳一人或多人的休闲座位外，宽敞的厨房岛横跨高大而宏伟的厨房，与后面花园的广阔视野平行，使厨房成为一个明亮宜人的房间，与工作区域一样，也是一个社交空间。

The living and dining rooms are connected in one continuous space with a swimming pool at one end and a rear garden at the other.  Along the length of the room, a low bay window ledge cast into the folds of the wall and a long horizontal window opening provide an intimate and direct connection to the landscape, as well as casual seating that can comfortably accommodate one or many people.  Similarly, the expansive kitchen island that extends across the tall and grand kitchen runs parallel to a broad view of the rear garden and makes the kitchen a bright and pleasant room that is just as much a social space as a working area. 

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有了这种深邃的空间和广阔的窗户的建筑语言，围绕着房子的花园的壮观的线性景观被镶上了框架。绿色植物的景色为居民提供了一种宁静和反思的感觉，并使他们与周围的环境相映成趣。这些景观的高潮发生在主卧室，它贯穿顶层的整个前立面，正面有一个独特的水平开口。这扇宽阔的窗户可以看到远处的郊区天际线的壮观和不间断的景色。

With this architectural language of deep spaces and extensive windows, dramatic linear vistas of the gardens that surround the house are framed.  The views to the greenery provide a sense of serenity and reflection to the inhabitants and ground them to their environment.  The culmination of these views occurs in the master bedroom that runs across the entire front façade of the top storey with a singular horizontal opening across its frontage. This broad window takes in a spectacular and uninterrupted view of the suburban skyline beyond.

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虽然这座房子是作为建筑、室内和景观设计的综合体验设计的，但每一门学科都有其独特的表达和概念；建筑以其坚固的具体美学和表达的建造过程；采用各种热带景观策略为不同的空间目标提供四层不同解决方案的景观，以及带有巧妙地传达家庭历史的个人文物挂毯的内部建筑。

Although the house was designed as an integrated experience of the architecture, interior and landscape design, each discipline has its unique expression and concept; the architecture with its rugged concrete aesthetic and expressed construction process, the landscape with four levels of distinct solutions for different spatial objectives using a variety of tropical landscape strategies, and the interiors with a tapestry of personal artifacts that subtly convey the history of the family.

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Architects WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design

Location Singapore

Category Houses

Area 493.0 sqm

Project Year 2013

Photographs Aaron Pocock