架构师提供的文本描述。这两所新房子坐落在一个戏剧性的、面向南的山坡上，俯瞰北科尼什海岸PorthTowan村的海滩。从海岸到圣艾夫斯，这里的景色特别好。令人惊讶的是，对于如此突出和相对偏远的沿海地区来说，新的房屋被20世纪50年代的郊区平房所包围。

Text description provided by the architects. These two new houses are located on a dramatic, south-facing hillside overlooking the beach in the village of Porthtowan on the north Cornish coast. The site has particularly fine views down the coast to St Ives. Surprisingly, for such a prominent and relatively remote coastal site, the new houses are surrounded by a suburban estate of bungalows dating from the 1950s.

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这两所新房子是给同一个客户的，一对夫妇有一个十几岁的儿子。较大的房屋，马林迪，将用作主要的家庭住宅。较小的房子，普罗维登斯，将容纳一个艺术家的工作室在较高的底层和一套公寓为游客和家庭在较低的底层。这两所房子都取代了客户拥有的小得多的不合标准的房子。

The two new houses are for the same client, a couple with a teenage son. The larger house, Malindi, will be used as the main family home. The smaller house, Providence, will accommodate an artist’s studio at upper ground floor level and an apartment for visitors and family at lower ground floor level. Both houses replace much smaller and substandard houses owned by the client.

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为减少新居对景观的影响，避免阻挡山体上房屋的景观，两座房屋都建在七坡一楼的山坡上，因此房屋在路旁是一层，而在海边则是两层。

To reduce the impact of the new houses on the landscape, and avoid blocking the view from the houses further up the hillside, both houses are built into the 1 in 7 slope of the hillside, so the houses are single storey on the road side and two storey on the seaward side.

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相邻的两个地点朝南，这一方向被用来建造两个被动的太阳能增益屋，以尽量减少化石燃料的使用和能源成本。实现这一目标的部分原因是对这两座房屋的南部高地进行了充分的玻璃化，部分是通过对两栋房屋的其余部分采用高隔热、高质量的建筑来实现的。

The two adjacent sites face south and this orientation has been used to create two passive solar gain houses to minimize both the use of fossil fuels and energy costs. This has been achieved partly by fully glazing the southern elevations of the two houses and partly by using highly insulated, high mass construction for the remainder of the two houses.

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为了尽量减少夏季过热的可能性，在硬木阳台后面放上了玻璃的南立面，在底层提供全宽度的阳台，保护室内不受夏季高照的影响，同时允许冬季较低的太阳深入两栋房子。

To minimize the possibility of overheating in summer the glazed southern elevation is set back behind hardwood verandahs, which provide full width balconies at upper ground floor level and protect the interiors from the high summer sun, while allowing the much lower winter sun to penetrate deep into the two houses.

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外包层、屋顶铺装和阳台结构都是由FSC认证的硬木制成的，这些硬木都是未完成的，自然会变成银灰色。

The external cladding, roof decking and verandah structures are all made from FSC certified hardwood which has been left unfinished to weather naturally to a silvery grey.

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设计方案受到当地规划者的热烈欢迎，没有当地的反对意见。

The design proposals were enthusiastically received by the local planners and there were no local objections.