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低层住宅

LOW/RISE HOUSE

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位于硅谷中心一片半英亩的土地上，这座房子通过共享和私人项目的联锁条重新塑造了郊区的住宅类型。该组合重新利用传统形式的加州农场房屋和农场塔作为环境表现和社会互动的工具，部署以创造可变密度，自然通风，太阳能发电，日照，和沉浸在现场。

Located on a half acre lot in the heart of Silicon Valley, the house reimagines the suburban housing type through interlocking bars of shared and private program. The composition re-appropriates the traditional forms of the California ranch house and farm tower as tools of environmental performance and social interaction, deployed to create variable density, natural ventilation, solar energy generation, day-lighting, and immersion into the site.

 Floor Plan

这两位客户是两位带着成年子女的教授，他们想要一套能够容纳不同使用模式的房子，为他们自己作为一对夫妇创造一个私密的环境，同时为10名或更多家庭成员和数百名派对客人提供宽敞而完整的配置。这一复杂的规划要求激发了建筑物的具体集结和选址。

The clients, two professors with grown children, sought a house that could accommodate varying use patterns, creating an intimate environment for their own use as a couple, yet allowing for a spacious and integrated configuration for ten or more family members, and several hundred party guests. This complex programmatic request inspires the specific massing and siting of the building.

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第一层由两座狭长的建筑组成，它们在开放式厨房相交，提供独特的规划区域，并融入绿树成荫的景观，让庭院包围和渗透每个房间。微妙的几何学旋转有助于寻找道路，以及识别更多的公共和更私人的功能。私人主套房在工地东角的一个蕨类植物花园开放，而大型滑动玻璃门悬挂在客厅内的景观，以举行家庭聚会或大型活动。

The first floor consists of two long and narrow structures that intersect in an open kitchen, providing distinct programmatic areas and settling into the tree-lined landscape, allowing yards to surround and permeate each room. Subtle rotations of the geometry assist in way-finding, as well as identification of the more public and more private functions. The private master suite opens into a fern garden in the eastern corner of the site, while large sliding glass doors suspend the living room within the landscape for family gatherings or larger events.

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一座紧凑型和垂直的客房塔坐落在高大的常青树中间的西角，可以让客人体验更多的私人体验，更紧凑的平面图，并能在典型的日常使用中逐个地区有效地关闭(社交和能源方面的)客房空间。在这座30英尺高的塔顶上，一层屋顶从树木中显露出来，为下面的建筑和周围的城市景观提供了独特的有利条件。

A compact and vertical guest tower is sited at the western corner of the lot amongst tall evergreens, allowing for a more private guest experience, more compact floor plan, and the ability to effectively shut off (socially and energy-wise) the guest spaces zone by zone during typical daily use. Atop the 30-foot tower, a roof deck emerges through the trees, providing a unique vantage point of the structure below and the surrounding townscape.

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这种空间效率也提高了能源效率。客人空间的高密度使得堆叠的建筑系统减少了资源消耗，而水平空间上方隐藏的太阳能阵列产生了房屋90%以上的电力需求。结合隔热玻璃、地板辐射热量、被动冷却和弹性天然材料，该房屋在资源和生活模式方面都将可持续性列为优先事项。

This spatial efficiency also provides increased energy efficiency. The high density of the guest spaces allows for stacked building systems that reduce resource consumption, while a hidden solar array over the horizontal spaces produces over 90% of the electrical demand of the house. Combined with the insulated glazing, radiant floor heat, passive cooling, and resilient natural materials, the house prioritizes sustainability in terms of both resources and living patterns.

通过使用、形式和材料之间的整体关系，低层住宅对场地、自然和邻里的反应是敏感的，创造了一种新型的郊区生活-城市和农村。

Through an integral relationship between use, form, and material, the Low/Rise House responds sensitively to site, nature, and neighborhood, creating a new type of suburban living – both urban and rural.

Architects Spiegel Aihara Workshop

Location Menlo Park, United States

Category Houses

Architect in Charge Dan Spiegel

Area 4500.0 ft2

Photographs Bruce Damonte