Blantyre House Williamson Chong Architects

2014-06-17 01:00

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架构师提供的文本描述。在多伦多，维多利亚时期的工人阶级社区平均提供20‘宽120英尺长的批次。虽然每个狭窄的一端都有光线，但室内空间不可避免地相当黑暗。布兰太尔大厦的选址也提出了另一项限制。保持100岁的挪威云杉在后院成为一个优先事项，并影响了规划和房子的形式。在19‘宽和45’长的房子，不仅狭窄，而且很浅。

Text description provided by the architects. In Toronto, the Victorian working class neighbourboods provide average lot sizes of 20’ wide by 120’ long. While there is light available on each narrow end, the interior spaces are inevitably quite dark. The site for the Blantyre House presented another restriction. Maintaining the 100-year-old Norway spruce in the backyard became a priority and impacted the programming and form of the house. At 19’ wide and 45’ long, the house is not only narrow, but also shallow.

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最初的决定是，允许“厨房工作室”和它的综合餐桌和收获桌占据整个家庭底层，迫使起居室在底层门廊上方盘旋，并保留其作为“钢琴鼻孔”空间的地位。

A primary decision was made to allow the ‘kitchen studio’ with its integrated dining and harvest table to occupy the entire ground floor of the home, forcing the living room to hover above the ground floor porch, and retain its status as a ‘piano nobile’ space.

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“厨房工作室”，有其独特的定制磨坊衬里，作为建筑和情感中心的家庭。定制的磨坊试图将家庭的不同要求-机械管道工程、管道供应和卫生线、结构横向抗侧墩-整合到一个区域，以防止本已紧凑的8‘-0“清晰的高度天花板进一步下降。

The ‘kitchen studio,’ with its distinctive custom millwork lining, serves as the architectural and emotional center of the home. The custom millwork attempted to consolidate seemingly disparate requirements of the home -- namely, mechanical ductwork, plumbing supply and sanitary lines, structural laterally-resistant piers -- into a zone that would prevent the already compact 8’-0” clear height ceiling from dropping even further.

磨坊的目标是在一个连续的平面上提供一个入口衣柜、储藏室、橱柜系统、香料架、家电车库、冰箱和扫帚壁橱。斜面边缘和缓和的细节与凹槽轮廓，确定关键的领域访问，并提供额外的空间节省相对于传统的抽屉拉和台面悬垂深度。因此，城市条件在厨房细节方面是一个独特的驱动因素。

The millwork aims to be the running spine which offers an entry closet, pantry, cupboards system, spice rack, appliance garage, refrigerator and broom closet in one continuous plane. Bevel-edged and eased details with recessed profiles identify the key areas for access and provide additional space savings relative to traditional drawer pulls and countertop overhang depths. Thus, the urban conditions were a distinct driver in the form of the kitchens details.

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作为磨坊墙面的焦点的有角度的立体声是设计用来提供任何典型厨房的典型工作视线和角度的-除了上面的储藏室将与相邻的完整的壁橱和下柜保持齐平。这个设计细节一直延续到这样的发现：我们可以把建筑系统线放在鞋帮的后面，而不会失去烹饪功能的性能。

The angled volume cutout that serves as the focal point for the millwork wall was designed to provide the typical working sightlines and reaching angles of any typical kitchen -- with the exception that the upper storage would remain flush with the adjacent full-length closets and the lower cabinetry. This design detail followed through on the discovery that we could place the building systems lines behind the uppers without losing performance in cooking functions.

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这种“厨房工作室”的出现，帮助了台面和收获台作为一个单一的固定部分的演变，从而允许对话、准备和社会条件尽可能地在两个纵向部分之间轻松地迁移和交换。随着全高度滑动窗口的细节，厨房工作室允许无缝流动从街道到花园的客人，同时提供一个确定和稳定的地区烹饪和准备。在某些方面，我们喜欢把这看作是进入家园的“正面”。

The emergence of this ‘kitchen studio’ aided in the evolution of the countertop and harvest table as a single fixed-piece, thus allowing conversational, preparatory and social conditions to migrate and exchange as effortlessly as possible between the two longitudinal components. With the detailing of the full-height sliding windows, the kitchen studio allows for the seamless flow from street to garden for guests while providing a sure and steady area for cooking and preparation. In some ways, we like to think of this as the ‘front face’ of the home upon entry.

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相比之下，最上层的住宅是主卧室和套间。在白色和最小的细节，这是房子最私密的地方。提供安静和远离城市环境的避难所，这些风景被精心设计，提供树木，天空，甚至安大略湖从套间的投影量的一瞥。这一层也是从前面的入口和客厅的体积，允许大规模阅读与其余住宅在街区的谦逊。

In contrast, the upper most level of the home is the master bedroom and ensuite. Depicted in white with minimal details, this is where the house is most private. Offering quiet and sanctuary from the urban setting, the views are choreographed to provide glimpses of the trees, sky and even to Lake Ontario from the projected volume off the ensuite. This floor is also set back from the front face of the entry and living room volume, allowing the massing to read in scale with the modesty of the remaining homes on the block.

 Ground Floor Plan

夹在这两个层次之间的是上面提到的“钢琴贵族”。灯火通明的客厅，俯瞰街道，远离繁忙的城市生活和下面的烹饪和就餐活动。在这个起居室后面是两个孩子的卧室，其中一个占据了通常黑暗的中间空间之间的房子前面和后面。为了缓解多伦多织物中的这一常见问题，起居室的南墙被倒角，通过中心空间的一扇大窗户反射光线。在前面的正面用刀刃描绘，这个移动缩放了厨房工作室的细节，给悬臂式的入口体积带来了优雅的边缘。

Sandwiched between these two levels is the ‘piano noble’ mentioned above. The light filled living room, overlooking the street, is removed from busy city life and the activity of cooking and dining below. Behind this living area are the two children’s bedrooms, one of which occupies the normally dark middle space between the front and the back of the house. To alleviate this common problem in Toronto’s fabric, the south wall of the living room is chamfered back to bounce light through a large window in the center space. Delineated by a knife edge on the front façade, this move scales the detail developed in the kitchen studio to bring an elegant edge to the cantilevered entry volume.

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在宏观层面，最大的可持续发展理念是填充住房。为了增加城市社区的密度，我们实际上分割了一个双倍的单一家庭用地，并把它分成了两个。在现有的街区内，在可利用的土地上建造，同时注意不要破坏本地树木的树冠，这使我们能够进一步探索“增量城市化”的教学方法。布兰太尔之家是一种可重复的类型学，它可以与现行的法规和分区要求共存，同时给家庭提供城市连通性，宽敞的空间，甚至是避难所。

At the macro level, the biggest sustainable idea is that of infill housing. To increase density in an urban neighbourhood, we actually severed (split) a double-wide single family lot and made it two. Building within an existing neighbourhood on strips of available land, while taking care not to disrupt the native tree canopy, allows us to explore further the pedagogy of ‘incremental urbanism.’ Blantyre House is a repeatable typology that can co-exist with current bylaws and zoning requirements while giving a family urban connectivity, generous spaces, and even sanctuary.

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使用贯穿通风的第一原则，弹性材料的长寿，和自然完成，帮助这个小家以一种简单的方式参与绿色建筑。

Using first principals of through ventilation, resilient materials for longevity, and natural finishes, help this small home engage green building in a straightforward way.