架构师提供的文本描述。这个项目被认为是一种国内景观，模糊了温带沿海雨林气候中内部和外部空间之间的界限。它本质上是一种牧场式的房屋类型，上面堆放着一间客房-专为一对身体活跃的空巢夫妇设计的，他们喜欢在假期里欢迎家人回家的想法。国内的项目遍布整个网站，跨越一系列的阶梯平台，连接主楼层到楼上的垂直循环被故意低估了。

Text description provided by the architects. This project is conceived as a domestic landscape that blurs the boundary between interior and exterior space in a temperate coastal rainforest climate. It is essentially a ranch house typology with a guest house stacked upon it - designed for a physically active empty nest couple who enjoy the idea of welcoming family home for the holidays. The domestic program is spread across the entire site, across a series of stepped platforms, and the vertical vertical circulation connecting the main floor to the upstairs is deliberately understated.

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该规划组织允许主要居民在一系列与景观有密切联系的规范中完全生活在底层。主要的居住空间是围绕着一个以日本为灵感的庭院，或“苔藓花园”，作为一个多方面的建筑装置运作。一方面，它提供沿主轴线的循环，该轴线将主要入口连接到后院游泳池和健身馆。

The programmatic organization allows the primary residents to live entirely on the ground floor in a series of specs that have intimate connections to the landscape. The primary living spaces are organized around a japanese-inspired courtyard, or ‘moss garden’, that operates as a multi-faceted architectural device. On the one side it provides circulation along the primary axis which connects the main entry through to the backyard pool and workout pavilion.

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其次，它创造了客厅进入花园的视觉延伸。最后，厨房直通庭院，给人一种感觉，那就是花园里的玻璃亭子。中央的居住空间在南侧由一个大的混凝土壁炉围起来，这提供了远离街道的隐私。上面体积的方向、形状和位置是为了防止夏季的太阳直接增加，同时允许低太阳角度的光在冬季进入空间。

Secondly, it creates a visual extension of the living room into the garden. Lastly, the kitchen opens directly into the courtyard, providing a sense that it is a glass pavilion in the garden. The central living space is bracketed on the south side by a large concrete fireplace which provides privacy from the street. The orientation, form, and positioning of the upper volume was designed to protect against direct solar gain during the summer months, while allowing light at lower sun angles to penetrate into the spaces during the winter months.