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架构师提供的文本描述。查帕拉是墨西哥最大的淡水湖，距瓜达拉哈拉仅45分钟车程，距其国际机场仅20分钟车程。在过去的几十年里，它已成为众多美国和加拿大公民的一个蓬勃发展的退休目的地，现在是该国最大的外国居民社区的所在地。

Text description provided by the architects. Chapala is the largest freshwater lake in Mexico; it is located a short 45-minute ride away from Guadalajara, and just 20 minutes from its international airport. Through the past few decades it has become a booming retirement destination for numerous American and Canadian citizens, and it is now home to the largest community of foreign residents in the country.

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卡萨先生被设计为一个瓜达拉哈拉家庭的度假之家。差不多13，000平方米。英国“金融时报”。包裹的特点是一个巨大的南面斜坡，这巧合地创造了一个非凡的观点在湖面上。房屋计划(超过6，000平方米)(英国“金融时报”)提出了一个深入的观点，开放和中性色调的透明度的研究，它包含了几个传统上与房屋无关的材料。

Casa MR was designed as a vacation home for a Guadalajara family. The almost 13,000 sq. ft. parcel features a substantial southward-facing slope, which coincidentally creates an extraordinary viewpoint over the lake. The house plan (over 6,000 sq. ft.) presents a study of deep perspectives, openings and transparencies in neutral tones, and it incorporates several materials traditionally unrelated to housing.

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利用土地的不规则地形，我们选择了将主要通道和服务区域定位在最高的位置。较高的(服务)和较低(可居住的)体积被一个庭院隔开，使人想起传统的拉丁美洲房屋计划，并通过一座细长的桥梁来沟通。

Taking advantage of the irregular topography of the land, we opted for locating the main access and services area at the highest part. The higher (services) and lower (habitable) volumes are separated by a courtyard reminiscing the traditional Latin-American house plan, and communicated by means of a slender bridge.

这座房子的建筑材料-混凝土和石头地基、挡土墙、泥砖墙、空腹桁架结构和大量使用大的、可移动的玻璃窗格-是避免柱子或其他在下降层设计上造成视觉损害的关键，从而使每个社会和生活空间都能享受到湖泊的无障碍、无与伦比的景色，同时又不妨碍邻居的意见。

The house’s building materials -concrete and stone foundations and retaining walls, mudbrick walls, a Vierendeel trussing structures, and heavy use of large, moveable glass panes- were key to avoid columns or other visual impairments on the descending tiered design, thus enabling every social and living space to enjoy unobstructed, unparalleled vistas of the lake, and without hindering the views from the neighbor

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意识到减少能源和水消耗的需要，我们遵循了被动式房屋规格，包括太阳能热水器的房子和游泳池，基于LED的照明和最先进的人工草坪在花园。

Aware of the ever-present need to reduce energy and water consumption, we followed passive house specifications including solar water heaters for the house and pool, LED-based lighting and state-of-the-art artificial turf in the garden.

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最后，虽然这所房子主要是作为周末和假日财产设计的，但在业主的要求下，将永久使用的可能性考虑在内，如果对目前的方案作任何改动，就需要非常有限的这样一种选择，这证明了它的多功能设计。

Finally, while the house has been designed primarily as a weekend and holiday property, the possibility of permanent use has been factored in at the request of the owners, and enabling such an option would require very limited if any changes to the current program, a testament to its versatile design.

 © Santiago Name

(圣地亚哥名称)

Architects JCNAME Arquitectos

Location Chapala, Mexico

Category Houses

Project Year 2013

Photographs Jorge Silva, Santiago Name