© Peter Bennetts

(Peter Bennetts)

架构师提供的文本描述。你如何在450万里建立一个家？这很棘手，但很有趣。

Text description provided by the architects. How do you create a home in 4.5m? It’s tricky, but a lot of fun.

一个四口之家住在这座简陋的老房子里已经将近八年了。孩子们快到十几岁了，一定要做点什么。放弃家园，搬到别处不是一种选择，因为家庭是一个繁荣社区的重要组成部分。

A family of four had lived in this modest, ageing house for almost eight years. As the children neared their teenage years something had to be done. Abandoning their home and moving elsewhere was not an option as the family was an important part of a thriving community.

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(Peter Bennetts)

在菲茨罗伊的这个口袋里，有着密集的工人小屋和小梯田。它们个头都很小，很多又黑又冷。许多村舍和梯田都处于原始状态，一个简单的立面隐藏在后院的砖块和风化板的组合上，俯瞰着青石巷道。这些精瘦的鞋形成了一个细密多变的网眼，与街前的简单形成鲜明的对比。在这种背景下，当你在一处房屋的后方，面对着巷道时，你会敏锐地意识到现有建筑形式的小巧和质感。在这种情况下，设计者的责任是对小批量的组装作出反应，同时也最大限度地发挥业主简介的潜力。

Within this pocket of Fitzroy is a dense mix of workers’ cottages and small terraces. All are modest in size, many are dark and cold. Many of the cottages and terraces are in original condition, with a simple facade hiding an assemblage of brick and weatherboard lean-tos in the rear yard looking onto bluestone laneways. These lean-tos create a mesh of detailed and varying volumes, in stark contrast to the simplicity of the street front. When building in the rear of a property in this context, facing onto the laneway, one is acutely aware of the smallness and texture of the existing built form. Within this context the burden is on the designer is to respond to the assemblage of small volumes while also maximising the potentials of the owners’ brief.

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(Peter Bennetts)

由于菲茨罗伊已经绅士化，我们已经看到更新是以毫无同情心的方式进行的。有许多的例子，这种组合的黑砖和风化板被取代的大型当代物体，主导其环境。Moor街的策略是最大限度地利用内部功能和可用空间，同时也通过从三个小物体而不是一个当代单体中创造出一个单一的建筑来对环境做出反应。厨房、浴室、餐厅和洗衣房里的劳累的衣食住行被移走了。这些功能随着主卧室的增加而被搬迁和更新。原来的砖阶被保留，整理并恢复生机。

As Fitzroy has gentrified we have seen renewal take place in unsympathetic ways. There are numerous examples of this assemblage of dark brick and weatherboard being replaced with large contemporary objects that dominate its context. The tactic at Moor Street was to maximise the interior functions and available space, while also responding to the context by creating a single building out of three small objects rather than a single contemporary monolith. The tired lean-to which housed the kitchen, bathroom, dining and laundry were removed. These functions were relocated and updated along with the addition of a master bedroom over. The original brick terrace was retained, tidied and brought back to life.

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(Peter Bennetts)

原来的房子中央有一口小水井，里面有一棵美丽而又受约束的日本枫树。这一家人常常发现自己正通过这条光环交谈。谈话通过枫树，从楼上的卧室到对面的厨房，研究空间，甚至是浴室。枫树被保留下来，光环被玻璃包围，把树带进了生活空间。空间和层次之间的对话，通过枫树，比以往任何时候都更好、更容易。

In the centre of the original house was a small light well containing a beautiful, yet constrained, Japanese maple tree. The family often found themselves conversing through this lightwell. Conversations took place, through the maple, from upstairs bedroom to kitchen opposite, to study space and even the bathroom. The maple was retained and the lightwell expanded and surrounded in glass, bringing the tree into the living spaces. The conversations between spaces and levels, through the maple, are better and easier than ever.

 © Peter Bennetts

(Peter Bennetts)

上层独立的箱子里有主卧室。这一空间被南方枫树的树冠和北面的一棵大树胶树所包围，使主卧室感觉更像树屋。透过树胶的树冠，可以看到菲茨罗伊的景色，展示了周围工人的小屋和小梯田的砖块和风化板的详细组合。

The separate boxes on the upper level contain the master bedroom. This space is surrounded by the canopy of the maple to the south and the canopy of a large gum tree to the north, making the master bedroom feel much like a treehouse. Through the gum’s canopy are views over Fitzroy, revealing the detailed assemblage of the brick and weatherboard lean-tos of the surrounding workers’ cottages and small terraces.

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