架构师提供的文本描述。客户的简报很简单，很短，“像堡垒一样的房子是无法缩小的”。当网站坐落在喀拉拉邦一个比较粗糙的地区的正中，客户想要一套看起来很吓人的房子。事实上，这就是当一个人站在外面试图进入时所得到的感觉。

Text description provided by the architects. The brief from the client was simple and short “a fort like house that one can’t scale”. As the site sat right in the middle of one of the rougher districts of Kerala the client wanted a house that looked intimidating. In fact that is the very feel that one gets as one stands outside trying to get in.

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帕文·莫汉达斯

这种形式是抹灰墙和裸露红土墙的组合。红土石曾经被广泛应用于喀拉拉邦的建筑中，由于其泥土的颜色和结构，它具有直接的视觉吸引力和与周围环境的联系。在一种新的语言中使用这种熟悉的石头，同时又不会失去它的愚蠢性质，它将立即扎根于设计之中，同时，承认存在着一种变化，弥补了现在国家普遍存在的当代建筑实践中出现的巨大差距。

The form is a combination of plastered walls and exposed laterite wall. Laterite stone, once commonly used in Kerala architecture, has a direct visual appeal and a connection to the immediate surroundings, because of its earthy colour and tecture. The usage of this familiar stone in a new language, without losing its inane nature, would immediately root the design, at the same time, acknowledge the presence of a change, bridging this huge gap that has come about in the contemporary architectural practice that prevails in the state now.

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帕文·莫汉达斯

裸露的红土石墙从复合墙开始，蜿蜒穿过庭院进入建筑物。它不仅仅是一堵墙或一座围墙，它就像一座流淌在风景中的雕塑。巨大墙体的单调是由红土墙上随机出现的各种空洞所打破的。红土石来自两个不同的采石场，因为这两种不同的颜色来自整个墙的一个图案。红土石之间的垂直接缝被白色水泥和粉状红土石填充，因此明显地突出了水平线。连续的水平线给弯曲墙提供了更多的流动性/方向。

The exposed laterite stone wall starts from the compound wall and winds through the landscaped yard into the building. More than as a wall or as an enclosure, it is like a flowing sculpture through the landscape. The monotony of the huge walls is broken by the various voids given at random on the laterite wall. The laterite stone was sourced from two different quarries for the two distinct colours that from a pattern throughout the wall .The vertical joints between the laterite stones were filled with a paste of white cement and powdered laterite stone, thus visibly accentuating the horizontal lines. The continuous horizontal lines give more fluidity/direction to the meandering wall.

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帕文·莫汉达斯

漫长的车道引导一个人坐到外面，从那里偷偷预览隐藏的球场和美化的溢出区域。从这里开始，一个人跨上一座清澈的玻璃桥，跨过一个水体，从主门下面的一道瀑布溢出到一个内部水池中。因此，当大门打开时，一个人继续走在透明的玻璃上，脚底下面是瀑布的视觉。从这里人们可以选择去生活或就餐，这两个房间开放成一个巨大的景观，溢出的地区，蜿蜒暴露的红土墙。餐厅有一个长长的膝池，走廊通向卧室。厨房也在就餐之后。厨房也打开了另一个花园，在后面有一个羽毛球场。

The long drive way leads one to the sit out from where a sneak preview is given of hidden courts and landscaped spill out areas. From here one steps onto a clear glass bridge, over a water body that spills out as a cascade below the main door into an internal pool. So as the main door is opened one continues to walk on the clear glass, with the visual of the cascade below the feet. From here one can choose to go to the living or the dining, both these rooms opening out into a huge landscaped, spill out area enclosed by the meandering exposed laterite wall. The dining has a long lap pool with a corridor leading one to the bedrooms. The kitchen also lies just beyond the dining. The kitchen too opens up into another landscaped yard at the back with a badminton court.

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帕文·莫汉达斯

三层高的内院，有香蕉、蕨类植物和许多热带植物，有楼梯进入家庭影院下面和上面的书房。上面的走廊有几个圆形天窗，与圆形天花板灯竞争，以照亮该地区。

The 3 storey high internal court with banana plants, ferns and many tropical plants, has the stairs taking one into the home theater below and the study above. The corridor above has several circular skylights competing with the circular ceiling lights to light up the area.

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帕文·莫汉达斯

大多数房间都有一个水平与天花板，形式是一个桶拱顶和平面板在较高的水平与通风口，以排出热空气的组合形式。与其他常规表格相比，这种组合在室温方面带来了明显的差异。

Most of the rooms have a play of levels with the ceiling, in the form of a combination of barrel vault and flat slab at the higher level with vents to expel the hot air. This combination has brought a marked difference in the room temperature compared to other regular forms.

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帕文·莫汉达斯

网站的每一点都是在设计过程中被考虑到的，因此，每一个成员都发现了房子里的各个层次和区域，一个新的功能和一个新的意义，这是令人欣慰的。

Each and every bit of the site was considered during design and as a result it’s heartwarming to know that each of the members finding the various levels and areas in the house a new function and a new meaning.