架构师提供的文本描述。这个项目是一系列沙漠居住原型中的第二个，这些原型包括正在进行的对处于相对极端气候中的离网生活的研究。这三个研究地点都位于墨西哥南部下加利福尼亚的洛萨卡提托斯的偏远社区。

Text description provided by the architects. This project is the second of a series of desert dwelling prototypes that comprise an ongoing body of research into off-grid living in a relatively extreme climate. All three research sites are located in the remote community of Los Zacatitos, in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

 © John Sinal

约翰·西纳尔

Zacatitos 02是一个建筑实验，它充分探讨了建筑作为一种工具的概念，它可以中介对场地的占领和对景观的体验。它提供了一个最低限度的建筑美学，内部和外部无缝融合，轻轻地划分了大的可操作的玻璃面板。以细节为导向的极简主义唤起了一种必然性，它直接反映了这一景观的节约型和稀疏性。

Zacatitos 02 is an architectural experiment that fully explores the concept of architecture as a device which mediates occupation of the site and experience of the landscape. It presents a minimal architectural aesthetic wherein interior and exterior blend seamlessly, lightly demarcated by large operable glazing panels. The detail-oriented minimalism evoke an inevitability that is a direct reflection of the frugality and sparseness that is the ethos of this landscape.

该项目采用可转换的建筑策略，力求提供一种景观的居住感，既不完全置身于内部，也不完全置身于外部，而是介于两者之间。为了实现这一点，主要的居住空间包括三面墙，带有可操作的大玻璃板，完全收缩，几乎无限地将住宅扩展至自然景观之外。当住宅延伸到沙漠环境中时，它的具体地形会变成碎片。约束材料的调色板几乎完全由玻璃、混凝土、钢和铝组成，它提供了一个极小的单色景观，直接反映了沙漠的风貌。

Using a convertible architectural strategy this project strives to strives to provide a sense of inhabitation of the landscape which affords the luxury of being neither completely inside, nor entirely outside, but somewhere in between.  To achieve this, the primary living space features three walls with large operable glazing panels that fully retract, providing the effect of expanding the dwelling almost infinitely into the natural landscape beyond. The concrete topography of the dwelling dematerializes in fragments as it extends into the desert context. The restrained material palette consisting almost exclusively of glass, concrete, steel, and aluminum provides a minimal monochromatic landscape that is a direct reflection of the ethos of the desert

 © John Sinal

约翰·西纳尔