架构师提供的文本描述。萨克塞纳公寓的设计是为了容纳三个家庭在两个类型不同的公寓-单层和复式公寓。我们的设计选择了在背景的结构和规模内工作，把这座建筑牢牢地固定在北边的一个街区公园和西边一条繁忙的街道之间。每间公寓都被想象成一个阳光的容器，在一个高度反光的石灰石地板上映射太阳的变化强度。房间被安排在一个内部的“广场”周围，消除了流通走廊，促进了房间与公园和外面街道之间的视觉联系。选择整体的，喷砂格瓦利奥砂岩面板的正面，使我们能够与石匠合作，创造阴影屏幕作为热缓冲在街道上。通过降低北面阳台上石头的密度，我们把它们想象成照亮公共花园的灯笼。

Text description provided by the architects. The Saxena apartments are designed to accommodate three families within two typologically distinct apartments - single floor and duplex. Our design chose to work within the fabric and scale of the context, anchoring this building firmly between a neighbourhood park on the north and a busy street on the west. Each apartment is envisioned as a container of sunlight, mapping the changing intensity of the sun on a highly reflective limestone floor. Rooms are organized around an interior “plaza”, eliminating circulation corridors and facilitating visual links between the rooms to the park and street outside. The choice of monolithic, sandblasted Gwalior sandstone panels for the facades enabled us to collaborate with the stone craftsmen, creating shade screens as thermal buffers on the street. By reducing the density of the stone on the north facing balconies, we imagined them as lanterns illuminating the public garden. 

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c.Andre J.Fanthome

作为人文主义者，我们的物质选择的社会背景和语境背景与其审美价值同样重要。经过深思熟虑的设计和建筑对于我们实践的维持至关重要，即使只是作为解决一般印度人对建筑的漠不关心的解药。

As humanists, the social and contextual background of our material choices is as important as their aesthetic value. Designing and building thoughtfully are vital to the sustenance of our practice, if only as an antidote to the indifference with which the average Indian regards architecture. 

 © Andre J. Fanthome

c.Andre J.Fanthome

通过使用备用的材料调色板-石灰石地板、抹灰砖墙和隔热玻璃-室内空间反映了光线质量的变化，以及周围树叶的颜色，这是城市与地形和景观的唯一联系，使居民们意识到了元素的感觉。对于这个项目，我们选择了一些表面，这些表面的长期效益是相当可观的；因此，我们更倾向于使用以其自然状态表示的奇异材料建造，如格瓦利奥砂岩外墙或石灰石地板。

By employing a spare palette of materials – limestone floors, plastered masonry walls, and insulated glass – the interior spaces echo variations in the quality of light, and the colour of the surrounding foliage, the only urban links to topography and landscape, making the inhabitants aware of a sense of the elemental. For this project, we chose to adopt a selection of surfaces whose long-term benefits are considerable; hence our preference to build with singular materials expressed in their natural state such as the Gwalior sandstone façade or the limestone floors. 

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当我们的设计使日薪建筑工人们认为自己是工匠时，我们感到非常自豪。我们没有为迅速消失的工艺传统而哀叹，而是被整个建筑业提高建筑标准的前景所鼓舞。通过这样的线索来发现一个地方的根源，我们希望小型建筑能够成功地激发他们的城市环境。

We take great pride when our designs empower daily-wage construction workers to consider themselves artisans. Rather than bemoaning rapidly vanishing craft traditions, we are energized by the prospect of elevating standards of construction across the building industry. By discovering the roots of a place through such cues, we hope that small buildings may succeed in galvanizing their urban context.