架构师提供的文本描述。这位客户，录音艺术家迈克尔·兰克，20年前在北卡罗来纳州匹兹堡市附近买下了他占地60英亩的房子，他一直在等待合适的时机和合适的设计师在此建造一座房子。

Text description provided by the architects. The client, recording artist Michael Rank, purchased his 60-acre spread near Pittsboro, NC, 20 years ago and has been waiting for the right time and the right designer to build a house on it.

因为隐私是这个客户最关心的问题，Tonic的设计师们把房子深深地安置在房子里，靠近森林的边缘。这建立了一个美丽的，滚动的方法和关系的房子和一个开放的牧场。道路曲线显示了一个几乎令人吃惊的视图，高大的，垂直的端立体式房屋，上层覆盖着站立的金属缝。任何提醒哥特式建筑的尖顶拱门，带肋的拱顶，和飞行的支柱，都是完全有意的！

Because privacy is a primary concern for this client, Tonic’s designers sited the house deeply into the property and near the edge of a forest. This set up a beautiful, rolling approach and a relationship between the house and an open pasture. The road curves to reveal an almost startling view of the tall, vertical end of the cubistic house, the upper section covered in standing seam metal. Any reminder of Gothic architecture’s pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses is strictly intentional!

 © Raymond Goodman

C.雷蒙德·古德曼

事实上，客户要求Tonic设计并建造一座“现代哥特式”住宅。这一点，再加上他对隐私的坚持；他对高大垂直空间的热爱；他对楼梯的极度迷恋；他广泛的艺术收藏；以及他对容纳他的“肌肉车”和拉格斯特的空间需求，推动了他的设计方案。结果是建造了一座3200平方英尺、四层楼高的平顶房屋，里面有一间三层高的清洁起居室和一座1100平方英尺的地下四车库，所有这些都推动了木结构建筑的极限。

In fact, the client asked Tonic to design and build a “Modern Gothic” house. That, plus his insistence on privacy; his love of tall, vertical spaces; his extreme fascination with stairs; his extensive art collection; and his need for space to house his “muscle cars” and dragster drove the design scheme. The result is a 3200-square-foot, four-story, flat-roofed house with a three-story-clear living room and an 1100-square-foot four-car garage beneath, all of which push the limits of wood-frame construction. 

 © Raymond Goodman

C.雷蒙德·古德曼

在等级上，车库是浇筑混凝土的。主要居住空间由油漆混凝土面板在外部定义。上面两层都是工厂完成的，黑色的，立式接缝金属屋顶材料，这将永远不需要油漆。后者既是一种美学的选择，也是一种考虑结构高度的现实选择。从设计上看，黑白的外观也能回忆起钢琴的琴键。

On grade, the garage is cast concrete. The main living space is defined on the exterior by painted concrete panels. The upper two levels are clad in factory-finished, black, standing-seam metal roofing material that will never need painting. The latter was both an aesthetic and practical choice considering the height of the structure. By design, the black and white exterior also recalls piano keys.

说到音乐：在乐谱的工作人员上放置窄的垂直窗口以表示音符。这些现成的窗口屏蔽窗口适合金属的立式接缝内的尺寸，因此它们增强了房屋的垂直性，并有助于快速、经济实惠的建筑，因为不需要定制配件。他们还给予业主他想要的隐私，同时建议哥特式城堡的“箭环”窗户，为保护城堡的弓箭手提供掩护。

Speaking of music: Narrow vertical windows are placed to suggest notes on the staffs of sheet music. These off-the-shelf Window Shield® windows fit the dimensions inside the metal’s standing seams, so they enhance the house’s verticality and contributed to fast, affordable construction since there was no need for custom fitting. They also give the owner the privacy he wants while suggesting Gothic castles’ “arrow loop” windows that provided cover for archers protecting the castle.

一个大型的伊普木甲板与黑色金属栏杆与钢电缆，定制由Tonic建筑，扩展了户外的生活空间。一个较小的阳台从业主的卧室突出。

A large Ipe wood deck with a black metal railing with steel cables, custom fabricated by Tonic Construction, extends the living space outdoors. A smaller balcony projects from the owner’s bedroom.

 © Raymond Goodman

C.雷蒙德·古德曼

从车库的水平，一个11英尺高的混凝土外部楼梯通向房子的主层，在那里起居室上升到三层清晰，业主最喜欢的颜色-黑色、灰色和白色-立即显现出来。开放式厨房和餐厅紧邻起居室。沿着远处的墙壁和头顶，一个戏剧性的黑色金属楼梯和坡道(M.C.埃舍尔(M.C.埃舍尔的绘画)带着敞开的钢制地板，通向主人和他儿子的卧室(在楼上的独立象限上)、图书馆，还有一个录音室，主人可以在那里创作和录制他的音乐。(如果有必要的话，工作室将来可以改建成一间额外的卧室。)滑动黑色金属门为独立房间提供了隐私。从上到下的螺旋楼梯也位于房子的后面。

From the garage level, an 11-foot-tall concrete exterior staircase leads up to the home’s main level, where the living room rises to three stories clear and the owner’s favorite colors – black, gray, and white – are immediately apparent. The open kitchen and dining space are immediately adjacent to the living room. Along a far wall and overhead, a dramatic network of black metal staircases and ramps (M.C. Escher paintings come to mind), with open-grated steel flooring, lead up to bedrooms for the owner and his son (on separate quadrants of the upper level), to the library, and to a recording studio where the owner can write and record his music. (The studio can be converted to an additional bedroom in the future if necessary.) Sliding black metal doors provide privacy for the separate rooms. A spiral staircase from top to bottom is also located at the rear of the house.

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整个房子，壁架存放艺术品，可以在任何时候，业主想要旋转，而不留下钉洞在白色的板岩墙。与白色墙壁形成鲜明对比的是来自CaraGreen的深灰色ECO聚结竹地板，带有淡淡的蓝色和棕色斑点。

Throughout the house, ledges hold artwork that can be revolved out whenever the owner wants without leaving nail holes in the white sheet-rocked walls. In dramatic contrast to the white walls is the dark gray ECOfusion® bamboo flooring from CaraGreen with subtle flecks of blue and brown.