架构师提供的文本描述。这个项目位于西温哥华的一个陡峭的地点，西面有成熟的雪松和道格拉斯杉木，南面有海景。房子对这些条件的反应是在山上筑巢，同时突出其上方，以最大限度地获得景观和与景观的连通性。

Text description provided by the architects. This project is located in West Vancouver on a steep site with mature cedar and douglas fir to the west and an ocean view to the south. The house responds to these conditions by nestling itself into the hill while also projecting out over it to maximize views and connectivity to the landscape.

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Ivan Hunte

由于靠近西面崎岖而倾斜的河岸，这栋房子受到严格的环境和岩土条件的限制，其中包括从河岸顶部向东推进建筑物地基所需的一次挫折。由此产生的足迹非常狭窄，因此为了重新获得宝贵的空间，主楼和上层的一部分被悬挑回到了地基之上，使当地的溪边植被得以生长，在不间断的、野生的森林地板下和周围生长。

Due to its proximity to the rugged and sloping creekside bank to the west, the house was subject to strict environmental and geotechnical conditions, including a required setback from the top of the bank that pushed the building's foundation eastwards. The resultant footprint was awkwardly narrow, so to gain back valuable space, a portion of the main and upper floor is cantilevered back out past the foundation, allowing the native creekside vegetation to grow up, under and around as an uninterrupted, wild, forest floor.

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Ivan Hunte

这种对空间的改造在餐厅里很明显，在餐厅里，它在混凝土基础墙外15英尺外突出。通过消除窗框，并在房间的三面，通过地板和天花板平面的玻璃板，空间溶入相邻的森林冠层，并提供框架的看法，尽管到海洋以外。

This reclamation of space is clearly pronounced in the dining room, where it projects fifteen feet out past the concrete foundation wall. By eliminating window frames and extending the glazing panels on all three sides of the room, past the floor and ceiling planes, the space dissolves into the adjacent forest canopy and provides framed views though to the ocean beyond.

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Ivan Hunte

在山上，房子的前部看起来很小，是由大而成熟的雪松在前院锚定的。当一个人沿着靠近森林的外部楼梯走下，沿着暴露的混凝土墙走到主入口时，场地的地形就会显现出来。这堵墙一直延伸到室内，上升到17英尺，帮助形成明亮的流通量，楼梯通向上层，一直延伸到主要的居住空间。

Tucked into the hill, the front of the house is deceptively modest in scale, set off by the large mature cedar that anchors the front yard. The topography of the site reveals itself as one descends the exterior stairs adjacent to the forest and follows the exposed concrete wall to the main entry. Continuing through to the interior, the wall rises up seventeen feet to help frame the bright circulation volume, with stairs leading to the upper floor and down to the main living spaces.

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Ivan Hunte

从这个空间中，你可以通过上面的墙对墙的天窗来了解和定位房屋的位置、地形和太阳在建筑物上的移动。从这一有利的角度来看，天空、海洋和森林的景致是微妙的暗示，但直到一个人深入到房子的深处时，才会有这样的暗示。

From this space, one gains an understanding and orientation of the home in relation to the site, its topography, and movement of the sun across the building by way of the wall-to-wall skylight above. Subtle hints of views to the sky, ocean and forest are suggested from this vantage point but it's not until one moves deeper into the house when

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Ivan Hunte