架构师提供的文本描述。位于新加坡中部著名的卡尔德科特地区，这座由A D实验室建造的平房，享受着古朴的住宅区的轻松氛围，可以欣赏到国家最受欢迎的自然保护区之一MacRitchie水库的壮丽景色。然而，建筑师们不得不应对这一地点靠近繁忙的高速公路的问题，尽管从现场看不见这一点，造成很大的噪音，附近起伏的地形在新加坡是很不寻常的，形成了一种街景，土地的地块在街道下面一层左右，因此，这条街的每栋房子都是从二层楼进入的。建筑师们利用这种不寻常的情况，把大部分公共设施降到了一个凹陷的院子里，让他们免受公路噪音的影响，同时也提高了房子的隐私和亲密程度。

Text description provided by the architects. Situated in the well-known Caldecott region of central Singapore, this bungalow by A D Lab enjoys the relaxed atmosphere of its quaint residential neighbourhood with gorgeous views of the MacRitchie Reservoir, one of the nation’s most popular nature reserves.  The architects, however, had to contend with the site's proximity to a busy highway, that although is not visible from the site, creates a significant amount of noise.  The undulating terrain of the neighbourhood is quite unusual in Singapore, and creates a streetscape whereby the plots of land are about a storey below the street level.  As such, each house along the street is entered from the second storey level.  The architects took advantage of this unusual situation to lower most of the communal facilities down into a sunken court that shields them from the noise of the highway, as well as heightens the level of privacy and intimacy of the house.

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从房子的外部入口，建筑的表达方式非常低调。建筑师通过使屋顶在景观中以褶皱和剥落的形式出现，尽量保持在街道水平以上的建筑形式的地面拥抱。这种低调的表达方式通过屋顶向下向屋外边缘的折叠进一步辅助。这种倾斜屋顶形式的内部空间表达方式给出了相反的体验。这样，进入空间的入口就低了起来，从入口向上上升，创造了一种不断扩大的、宏伟的内部空间的感觉，同时将眼睛引向天空，同时向下延伸到下面的亲密的中央庭院。起伏和折叠的屋顶形式被草皮覆盖，进一步将其定义为对周围绿色景观的延续。在某些地点，屋顶从地面上折叠起来，让风和光进入下陷的庭院。

From the external entrance of the house, the architectural expression is very understated.  The architects kept the built form above street level as ground-hugging as possible by making the roofs appear as folds and peels in the landscape.  This understated expression is further assisted by the folding of the roof downward toward the outer edges of the house.  The internal spatial expression of this tilting roof form gives the opposite experience, whereby the entrance to the spaces are low and rise upward from the entry, creating the sensation of an enlarging, grand internal room that simultaneously leads the eyes upward to the sky, as well as downward to the intimate central courtyard below.  The undulating and folding roof form is covered in turf, further defining it as a continuation of the surrounding green landscape.  At certain locations, the roof folds up from the earth level to allow wind and light into the sunken courtyard.

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另一项增加隐私的举措是，一个D实验室围绕着各个层次的主要房间，用循环空间作为噪音缓冲。走廊和楼梯围绕着房子的外围，将视线从房间集中到中央庭院。除了创造一种关于人在房子里移动的戏剧性感觉之外，“观众”还通过这些走廊穿过房子，这些走廊有时是隐藏在房间后面的走廊，有时是通向剧院阳台的走廊-就像可以看到花园和主要生活空间的空间。

In another move to increase privacy, A D Lab encircles the main rooms at all levels with circulation space that acts as noise buffers.  The corridors and staircases wrap around the outer perimeter of the house, focusing the view from the rooms towards the central courtyard, as well as creating a sense of drama about the movement of a person through the house.  The “viewer” moves through the house via these corridors that are at times hidden hallways behind the rooms and at other times open out to theatrical balcony-like spaces that view down to the garden and main living spaces. 

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德瑞克·斯沃韦尔

房主和他的父母住在这间房子里，因此，这个由隐蔽而独立的走廊组成的网络，使居民可以根据不同的社会状况和隐私需要，灵活地或充分地在房子周围走动。中央庭院是一片私人的、宁静的绿洲。一个豪华的游泳池为庭院降温，还有一系列将主公共房间隔开的室内和室外水设施。把泳池元素带到房子里。

The owner lives in this house with his parents, so this network of hidden and detached corridors  allows the inhabitants the flexibility of moving around the house either subtly or in full view depending on the varying social situation and need for privacy.  The central courtyard is a private and serene oasis.  A luxurious swimming pool cools the courtyard along with a series of indoor and outdoor water features that separate the main public rooms from each other and bring the pool element into the house itself.

 First Floor Plan

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