架构师提供的文本描述。生活在环境中。从第一次参观树屋所在的地点开始，这个项目有三个明显的前提：“一棵古老的萨波特树的持久性，需要在空间上更加开放，对自然环境和建筑环境的影响最小。”

Text description provided by the architects. Living in the environment. From the first visit to the site where the Tree House is located, three premises for the project were evident, "the permanence of an ancient Zapote tree, the need for more openness in the space, and to cause the least impact on the natural and built environments."

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现有的结构本来可以解决以前的需要，但如果不作出重大改变，就不可能满足新居民的需要。

The existing structure that would have solved the previous requirements, would not cover the needs of the new inhabitants without making drastic changes.

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这个设计让我们创造了一个不只是生活在环境中，而是生活在环境中的家园。它不仅尊重自然和建筑背景，而且使它们成为其特征的重要组成部分。

The design led us to create a home that more than living with the environment, LIVES IN THE ENVIRONMENT. It not only respects the natural and built contexts but makes them an essential part of its character.

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该空间是优化的重用整个现有的结构，重新安排地区和创造孔，能够结合自然通风和照明有利于每个地区的​​房子，尽管其不利的方向。

The space was optimized reusing the entire existing structure, rearranging the areas and creating apertures capable of incorporating natural ventilation and lighting favorable for each area of ​​the house, despite its unfavorable orientation.

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这座新建筑是在东侧的Zapote树和现有建筑之间增加的，因此定义了两个外部区域，一个舒适而亲密的中央庭院，允许公共区域向北和东部开放，还有一个宽阔的后院，周围环绕着周围的绿色植物，其中树是主角，还有圆形水池，玩弯曲的建筑形状，使我们能够保留这棵树。

The new building was added on the east side, between the Zapote tree and the existing building, thus defining two exterior areas, a cozy and intimate central courtyard that allows public areas to open to the north and east, and a wide backyard surrounded by the greenery of the immediate context, where the tree is the protagonist along with the circular pool, playing with the curved shapes of the building that enable us to keep the tree.

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这两个绿色的区域允许任何房间的房子与外界有联系，创造了生活在外面的感觉，但与所有的优势和舒适的内部。一层新的楼上住着主卧室，这间卧室似乎漂浮在扎普尔河的树枝上。

Both green areas allow any room of the house to have contact with the outside, creating the feeling of living outside but with all the advantages and comfort of the interior. A new upper floor houses the master bedroom, which literally seems to float on the branches of the zapote.

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整个树屋，由于滑动的玻璃墙，可以解释为一个露台，在内部和外部之间的界限变得模糊或几乎不存在，这是一个质量是有效的社会和私人领域。

The Tree House in full, due to sliding glass walls, can be interpreted as a terrace where the boundaries between interior and exterior become blurred or practically nonexistent, a quality that is valid for both social and private areas.

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另一个重要因素是将综合设计家具纳入不同领域，无论是在衣橱、厨房、浴室，使空间得到充分优化。

Another important element was to incorporate comprehensive design furniture in different areas, whether in closets, kitchen, bathrooms, allowing the spaces to be fully optimized. 

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所有的外墙和水池都是用“木瓜”水配制的抛光白水泥完成的，这是一种传统的技术，在该地区使用的是一种不透水的表面，在没有油漆的情况下，它具有更高的耐久性，而在内部，我们尊重传统材料，在某些情况下，传统材料被重新诠释为更马赛克水泥地板就是这样。在第一条走廊中，现有的地板被重复使用，而在第一层的其余部分，它们被同一种地板所改变，但颜色却很坚实。在楼上，我们用木地板(竹在里面，德扎拉姆在外面)来加强树屋的观念。

All exterior walls and pool are finished with polished white cement prepared with "chucum" water, a traditional technique used in the area that creates an impermeable surface with greater durability without paint, while inside we respect the traditional materials, which in some cases were reinterpreted with a more contemporary aesthetic. Such is the case of the mosaic cement floors. The existing ones were reused in the first corridor, and on the rest of the ground floor they were changed by the same kind of flooring but with a solid color. Upstairs we used wood floors (bamboo inside and Dzalam outside) to reinforce the idea of 

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其结果是对整个现有结构进行了优化，尊重其环境，使其成为设计本身的一部分，并将旧房子的形象改变为一个完全现代和尊重其过去的房子。

The result is a renovation that optimized the entire existing structure, respected its environment making it part of the design itself, and changed the image of a worn house for one that is totally contemporary and respectful of its past.