架构师提供的文本描述。有一条小溪流过房子，这在Alibag的静修是微妙地编织成景观，交替开放和关闭自己的不同特点的网站。大量的药用和果树提供了亲密的氛围和舒适的小气候。虽然季节性，河床允许一个有趣的景观特征全年。这所房子被安置在小溪的河岸上，在那里它形成了一个突然的S-曲线。在进入房子之前，沿着小溪走一小段路，就会建立起一种期待的气氛。就像一个有机体试图最大限度地利用它的资源和环境一样，这座房子的几根树枝延伸到了景观中，充分利用了现场的景观，并戏剧化了一些特殊的时刻：一棵美丽的树，一座山外的景色，或季风降雨时的层叠溪流。一开始是笛卡尔式的对该遗址的反应，后来变得变形、拉伸和推入其中。

Text description provided by the architects. With a stream running through the house, this retreat in Alibag is delicately woven into the landscape, alternately opening up and closing itself to the different characteristics of the site. A multitude of medicinal and fruit bearing trees provide for an intimate ambiance and comfortable microclimate. Though seasonal, the streambed allows for an interesting landscape feature throughout the year. The house is placed on the banks of the stream where it makes a sudden S-curve. A short walk along the stream before entering the house builds up an element of anticipation. Like an organism trying to make most use of its resources and surroundings, the house with its several limbs reaches out into the landscape making full use of the views within the site and dramatizes special moments: a beautiful tree, a view of the mountains beyond or the cascading stream during the monsoon rains. What started out as a Cartesian response to the site became deformed, stretched and pushed in.

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(Sebastian Zachariah)

这座房子由两部分组成：日间区，如餐厅/厨房、客厅和门廊，与主卧室之间隔着一座横跨小溪的桥梁。由于业主们对烹饪很感兴趣，厨房成了房子的心脏和中心，一个巨大的、诱人的空间，天花板很高，天窗里充满了光线。这一空间构成了房屋的锚，从那里，它的各种分支延伸到周围的景观，现有的组成部分的网站。左边的起居室被抬离地面，俯瞰远处的山脉。客房拥抱一棵现存的树，创建一个庭院，只需在餐厅的另一端偷看，就可以俯瞰溪流的长度。水池沿溪流排列，在季风期间作为对它的庆祝，在旱季则是对它的记忆。

The house consists of two parts: the day areas of the house such as the dining/kitchen, the living room and entrance verandah are separated from the master bedroom by a bridge that spans across the stream. Since the owners are passionate about cooking, the kitchen is made the heart and center of the house, a large, inviting volume with a high ceiling and a skylight that floods the space with light. This space forms the anchor of the house from where its various limbs branch out into the landscape around existing components of the site. The living room on the left is lifted off the ground to have a panoramic view of the mountain range in the distance. The guest room embraces an existing tree to create a courtyard and just peeks across the dining room to have a view over the length of the stream. The pool is aligned along the stream acting as a celebration of it during the monsoons, and a memory of it during the dry season.

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(Sebastian Zachariah)

该方案的方向是基于气候方面的考虑。卧室大多在西面，有大阳台，晚上阳光充足。客厅又一次朝东，有一个大阳台。厨房、餐厅和游泳池都朝北看，都被大树遮住了。房子的南面主要是封闭的，而且更坚固，除了一个画窗，它把视野从储藏室架到更远处的田野。

The orientation of the program is based on climatic considerations. The bedrooms are mostly west facing with large verandahs and get the evening sun. The living rooms faces east once again with a large verandah. The kitchen, dining, and pool areas all look towards the north and are shaded by large trees. The south façade of the house is predominately closed and more solid with the exception of a picture window that frames the view out from the pantry to the fields beyond.

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(Sebastian Zachariah)

虽然外部结构混凝土壳收缩和扩展在计划的部分，它也这样做。房屋的外部形态是根据场地的整体流动性而由高到低的方向流动的。然而，在内部，它会对空间的创造做出反应，并引导眼睛去描绘一个特定的视图。因此，内部和外部是分开的，内部空间是由内部天花板的厚度变化所产生的体积来定义的。然而，这个质量的沉重被白色洗过的墙壁和天花板的轻盈所逆转。中央天窗和大滑动门，从地板到天花板，从墙到墙，将外部引入室内。起居室和两间卧室的悬臂式的“四肢”，克服了混凝土体积的沉重。由于不把它放在地面上，与景观的关系矛盾地得到了加强。

While the external structural concrete shell contracts and expands in plan in section it does so as well. The external form of the house responds to site and its orientation and flows from high to low in accordance with the monolithic fluidity of its form. Internally, however, it responds to the creation of space, and directs the eye to frame a particular view. The outside and inside are therefore apart and internal spaces are defined with volumes created by the changing thickness of the internal ceiling. The heaviness of this mass however is reversed by the lightness of the white washed walls and ceilings. A central skylight and large sliding doors, which span from floor to ceiling and wall to wall bring in the outside into the interiors. The cantilevered ‘limbs’ of the living room and two bedrooms defy the heaviness of the concrete volumes. By not resting it on the ground the relationship with the landscape paradoxically is strengthened.

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(Sebastian Zachariah)

一系列对称的轴心创造了一条通过房子发现的路径。到达路径与Pergola轴对齐，Pergola轴拥抱泳池进入左侧的餐厅。餐厅的一个角落与厨房的锥形体积重叠。通过将餐厅的轴线从厨房的轴线上移开，提高客厅的水平，这将成为一个更加隐蔽的空间。此外，它还允许厨房的一扇玻璃门向外打开，沿着客厅的外墙观察。在房子的战略位置上，钢制框盒窗户从混凝土墙中凸出。它们以对称的方式放置在室内墙壁上，突出了遗址的特定元素，比如树皮，或者从主展馆到主房子的窥视。

A series a-symmetrical axi create a path of discovery through the house. The arrival path is aligned with the axis of the pergola, which embracing the pool enters the dining room on the left side. One corner of the dining room overlaps with the conically shaped volume of the kitchen. By shifting the axis of the dining room off the axis of the kitchen and raising the level of the living room, this becomes a more secluded space. Furthermore it allows a glazed door in the kitchen to open up to the outside and view along the external living room wall. At strategic positions in the house steel framed box windows protrude through the concrete walls. Placed symmetrically on the interior walls they highlight specific elements of the site, such as the bark of a tree, or peek from the master pavilion to the main house.

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(Sebastian Zachariah)

这所房子是用刨花做成的混凝土浇铸而成的.同质物化强调建筑本身的雕塑品质。混凝土被暴露在潮湿的印度气候中，吸引着一片随着时间的推移变得更加丰富和生机勃勃的帕蒂纳。更多的是，灰色纹理表面提供了一个静默的表面与充满活力的绿色环境。优雅的木结构屏风进一步软化了混凝土的灰暗。它们不仅形成了室内空间和外部空间之间的缓冲，而且在地板和墙壁上形成了密集的阴影和光线。

The house is cast in plank-finished concrete with a vertical grain. The homogenous materialization emphasizes the sculptural quality of the house that is moulding itself about the site. Concrete being left exposed in the humid Indian climate, attracts a patina that becomes more rich and alive over time. More so the grey textured surface provides a muted surface against the vibrant green surrounding. Elegant timber screens further soften the greyness of the concrete. They not only form a buffer between the interior space and the exteriors, but also create an intensive play of shadow and light on the floors and walls.

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