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架构师提供的文本描述。我们被委托设计一个当代家庭住宅，在一个占地一英亩的地方，位于辛比西生态地产的一个支流的尽头。客户的简报要求建立一个具有绝对简单感但高度复杂的家。

Text description provided by the architects. We were commissioned to design a contemporary family home on a one acre site, situated at the end of a spur, in Simbithi Eco-Estate. The client’s brief called for a home with an overriding sense of simplicity but with a high degree of sophistication.

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所有的起居区和卧室套房都朝向全景，其中包括一片从房子下坡下来的茂密的森林。

All the living areas and bedroom suites face onto a panoramic vista, which includes a dense forest down-slope from the house.

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天然材料的调色板，包括木材屏风，甲板和覆层，关闭的混凝土和石头覆层与积极的建筑形式并置，创造了一个不仅在视觉和空间上令人兴奋的家，而且舒适和亲密。

The palette of natural materials including timber screens, decking and cladding, off-shutter concrete and stone cladding juxtapose with the aggressive architectural form making, creating a home that is not only visually and spatially exciting, but also comfortable and intimate.

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住宅设计中广泛使用的水包括一个25米长的膝池，在水和地下室电影院之间有一个玻璃板，在入口处一侧有一个浅而宽的反光池，它日夜倒映着建筑物，让人产生一种宁静的感觉。

The extensive use of water in the design of the home includes a 25 metre lap pool with a glass panel between the water and the basement cinema room, and a shallow but expansive reflective pond on the approach side, which mirrors the building day and night, and evokes a sense of tranquility.

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住宅的建筑风格深受美国建筑师约翰·劳特纳的“古奇”建筑的影响。“Googie”这个名字的起源可以追溯到1949年，当时建筑师JohnLautner设计了西好莱坞咖啡店“Googies”，它具有鲜明的建筑特色。

The architectural style of the home is heavily influenced by the ‘Googie’ architecture of the American architect John Lautner. The origin of the name ‘Googie’ dates to 1949, when architect John Lautner designed the West Hollywood coffee shop, ‘Googies’, which had distinct architectural characteristics.

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‘Googie’建筑是现代建筑的一种形式，也是未来学家建筑的一个细分，它的文体惯例受50年代美国社会对未来主义设计、汽车文化、喷气式飞机、太空时代和原子时代的迷恋和营销重点的影响。

‘Googie’ architecture is a form of modern architecture and a subdivision of futurist architecture with stylistic conventions influenced by, and representing 50’s American society’s fascination and marketing emphasis on futuristic design, car culture, jets, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age.

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“Googie”的特征还包括象征运动的设计形式，包括上扫的屋顶、曲线的几何图形，以及大胆使用玻璃、钢和霓虹灯，其精神体现在Albizia楼中。

‘Googie’ was also characterized by design forms symbolic of motion, including upswept roofs, curvaceous geometric shapes, and the bold use of glass, steel and neon, the spirit of which is embodied in Albizia House.

Architects Metropole Architects

Location Simbithi Eco Estate, South Africa

Category Houses

Design Architect Nigel Tarboton

Project Architect Tyrone Reardon

Project Technician Chris Laird

Area 1000.0 sqm

Project Year 2013

Photographs Grant Pitcher