架构师提供的文本描述。这个项目开始于普拉兰的一所现有的单层维多利亚式住宅，由一系列分隔空间组成，其中一些空间承载了一些功能。

Text description provided by the architects. This project began as an existing single level Victorian house in Prahran, comprised of a series of compartmentalised spaces, with some spaces hosting a number of functions.

 Floor Plan

随着一楼的战略重新规划和新一楼的增加，实现的设计能够更灵活地适应每个空间，以适应不断变化的家庭生活动态。

With strategic replanning of the ground floor, and the addition of a new first floor, the realized design enables more flexibility to adapt each space to suit the ever changing dynamics of family life.

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通过插入新的建筑形式，无论是在水平平面还是在垂直平面上，都可以清楚地描述底层的功能。随着地板和天花板水平的细微变化，以及新细木工元素和受控开口的引入，每个空间变得更加清晰。

A clear delineation of function on the ground floor is achieved through the insertion of new built forms, both in horizontal and vertical planes. With subtle changes in floor and ceiling levels, and the introduction of new joinery elements and controlled openings, each space becomes further defined.

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房子的内部通过一系列隐蔽的滑动门加强了与外部庭院的连接，增加了对光线、新鲜空气和侧面的接触。后庭院与厨房相连，专为户外就餐而设计，而室内庭院则提供绿色背景和客厅空间的明显延伸。

The interior of the house was given stronger connection to the exterior courtyards through a serious of concealed sliding doors, increasing access to light, fresh air and aspect. While a rear courtyard was connected to the kitchen and was designed for outdoor dining, an interior courtyard provides a Green backdrop and an apparent extension of space to the living room.

 Floor Plan

到了房子，很难获得更多的一瞥，通过周围的城市街道景观一楼加成。上面的音量有意识地从华丽的维多利亚时代的烟囱回落，而全玻璃的正面提供了反光的背景和对比的周期屋顶详细毗邻。

Arriving at the house, it is difficult to gain more than a glimpse of the first floor addition through the surrounding urban streetscape. The upper volume is consciously set back from the ornate Victorian chimney, while the fully glazed facade provides a reflective backdrop and contrasts the period roof detailing adjacent.

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这项设计策略可让一楼的空间与景观有不同程度的互动，从桦树的树梢，从下面的庭院，直接接触到广阔的城市景观，同时保持邻近公寓的高度视觉私隐。

This design strategy allowed the first floor spaces to be exposed to varying levels of interaction with the landscape, both immediate from the tree tops of the birches from the courtyards below, to the expansive cityscape views beyond, whilst maintaining a level of visual privacy from the adjacent apartments.

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在整个室内，一个白色的有限的材料调色板与苍白的木材插入，为家庭的艺术，书籍和物品的收集提供了一个中立的背景。

Throughout the interior a restrained material palette of white with pale timber insertions provides a neutral backdrop for the family’s collection of art, books and objects.