架构师提供的文本描述。这所房子位于一个陡峭的，非常宽的物业上，可以看到温哥华市中心、狮子门大桥和Burrard入口处。建筑物横向流动，平缓的水平导航穿过和向下通过现场。街道与主楼层入口之间20英尺的垂直距离分为三种不同的体验，以缓解，否则将是无情的向下移动。首先，一套混凝土平台通过一个小的观赏园，然后下了一段楼梯，上面挂着一个池塘，最后穿过一座院子，跨过一座桥通往前门。院子里有着宽阔的反射池塘，在街道和建筑物的正面之间形成了一个原本是压缩山谷的独特空间。

Text description provided by the architects. This house is located on a steep, extra wide property with views of downtown Vancouver, the Lion's Gate Bridge and Burrard Inlet. The building flows laterally with a gently stepped horizontal navigation across and down through the site. Twenty feet of vertical distance between the street and the main floor entry is divided into three distinct experiences in order to alleviate, what would otherwise be, a relentless downward movement. First, a set of concrete platforms through a small ornamental orchard, then down a single run of stairs overhanging a pond, and finally through a courtyard over a bridge to the front door. The courtyard with its wide reflecting ponds creates a distinct space out of what would otherwise be a compressed valley between the street and the face of the building.

根据这对夫妇的需要，这所房子作为一个私人休憩地、一个营业场所和一个大规模的准公共娱乐空间同时运作。办公室是通过一个外部通道坡道在反射池塘旁，以便业务可以进行以外的生活空间。戏剧性的内部和外部娱乐空间，以容纳客户的伊斯玛利宗教团体的聚会，构成了网站的一半，而更密切的规模为私人生活和个人沉思的空间来自另一半。

In accordance with the couple’s needs, the house operates simultaneously as a private place of retreat, a place of business, and a large-scale, quasi-public entertaining space. The office is reached via an exterior access ramp beside the reflecting ponds so that business can be conducted apart from the living spaces. Dramatic interior and exterior entertaining spaces that accommodate gatherings of the client's Ismali religious community comprise one half of the site, while more intimately-scaled spaces for private living and personal contemplation form the other half.

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私人卧室空间被整合成一个紧凑的上层空间，漂浮在紧固的主楼层之上。这允许两个比例的主楼层空间。天花板高度很高的大空间，与较小的私人房间形成对比-厨房和餐厅之间的休息室和楼梯上的冥想室，回望着倒映的池塘。这些程序重叠，并通过内部和外部的柔和调色板：建筑混凝土，轻灰色水泥面板，抛光混凝土地板，白色石膏墙板，和匹配的磨坊面板。

Private bedroom spaces are consolidated into a compact upper floor volume that floats above the strung-out main floor. This allows two scales of main floor spaces. Large spaces with tall ceiling heights, contrast with smaller private rooms- a lounge between the kitchen and dining room and a meditation room at the stair which looks back over reflecting ponds. These programs overlap and are made cohesive through a subdued internal and external palette: architectural concrete, light gray cement panel, polished concrete floors, white gypsum wallboard, and matching millwork panels.

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