架构师提供的文本描述。几年前，我在Viimsi SPA酒店的健身房遇见了大象之家的女士。我和克里斯蒂一起做划船练习，发现我们有很多共同的爱好。这位漂亮的年轻女士曾当过医生，但也对其他一切事物都着迷。接着，克里斯蒂消失了好几年，最近又出现了。她打电话说我们要建一座房子。我也遇到了她的丈夫塔尔莫，他是一名公务员，他对艺术和个人才华的兴趣很快就使我们成为了坚定的朋友。

Text description provided by the architects. I met the lady of the Elephant House years ago in the gym of Viimsi SPA Hotel. Doing rowing exercises with ergometer, Kristi and I got talking and discovered we had many interests in common. The nice young lady worked as a doctor, but was also fascinated with everything alternative. Then Kristi vanished for several years and turned up again fairly recently. She phoned and said we were going to build a house. I met her husband Tarmo as well, a civil servant, whose interest in art and personal talent quickly made us firm friends.

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大象屋的解决方案在很大程度上取决于年轻客户的主动性，他们有着奢侈的愿望，我越来越热衷于重而坚固的建筑，并需要创造出丰富多彩的解决方案。我记得客户给我寄了一张电脑游戏里的奇怪房子的照片，里面有猛犸象、哥特式窗户和技术屏幕。我确定我很疯狂，但我疯到足以让客户满意吗？在工作过程中，猛犸象被一只小象的雕塑所取代，哥特式的窗户被狭长的狭缝和几扇弯曲的窗户所取代。我们从Tallinn沿Muuga路向Maardu方向行驶，来到距Maardu边界约100米的地块。我画了一个结实的正面屏风，横穿大路，尽头是一堵墙，一只浅蓝色的小象欢迎来到这里。屏幕后面的世界被分成两部分。较低的部分有医疗中心，较高的部分是夫妇及其两个子女的住所。

The solution of the Elephant House largely rests on the initiative of the young clients with their extravagant wishes, my growing keenness on heavy, stronghold-like architecture and a need to produce colourful solutions. I remember that the clients sent me a picture of a weird house from a computer game, with mammoths, Gothic windows and technological screens. I was certain I was pretty crazy, but was I crazy enough to satisfy the clients? In the course of work, the mammoths were replaced with a sculpture of an elephant calf, the Gothic windows with elongated slits and a few curved windows. Travelling towards Maardu from Tallinn along the Muuga road, we come to the plot about a hundred metres from the border of Maardu. I drew a strong façade screen crosswise with the big road, which ends with a wall where a light blue little elephant welcomes the arrivals into town. The world behind the screen is divided into two. The lower part has the medical centre and the higher part is the residence for the couple and their two children.

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阿恩·马西克

颜色在解决问题中起着至关重要的作用。主要的外部颜色是橙色，在细节上补充柠檬黄色，浅蓝和粉红色。室内以白色、米黄色、橙色、红色、蓝绿色和粉红色为主.色彩的和谐非常适合8月昆纳布的大版画在住宅入口大厅和医生的候诊室的较小的图片。在候诊室的中心是一座由现任作者设计的雕塑，我认为它是一台时间机器或一座治疗性的佛塔。佛塔周围的墙壁展示了三张猫的圆画，一张是医生的照片，一幅画是勃列日涅夫和塔吉克农民一起画的(都是八月以前的)。

Colours play an essential role in the solution. The main exterior colour is orange, supplemented in details by lemon yellow, light blue and pink. The interior is dominated by white, beige, yellow, orange, red, bluish-green and pink. The harmony of colours perfectly fits August Künnapu’s large-format paintings in the residence entrance hall and with smaller pictures in the doctor’s waiting room. In the centre of the waiting room is a sculpture designed by the current author, which I see as a time machine or a healing stupa. The walls around the stupa display three round pictures of cats, one picture of a doctor and a painting showing Brezhnev together with Tajik peasants (all by August).

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阿恩·马西克

住宅一楼设有大厅、车库、健身房和厨房-餐厅.二楼有一间客厅、三间卧室、一间办公室和一间楼梯井，上面有光线，还有我的一些小雕塑和两张房子的第一幅素描和水彩画。这间大浴室有一扇圆形的窗户，通往楼梯井，还有一幅画，一个女孩正在那里脱下一只袜子。这些照片有上世纪20年代关于它们的气息。我注意到整个房子的建筑有点像20世纪20年代和30年代的装饰艺术。毕竟，纽约摩天大楼的顶部构成了一种能源塔。

The first floor of the residential house accommodates a hall, garage, gym and kitchen-dining room. The second floor has a living room, 3 bedrooms, an office and a stairwell with light coming from above, also presenting a few of my small sculptures and 2 pictures of the first sketches and watercolours of the house. The large bathroom has a round window opening into the stairwell and to the painting where a girl is taking off a stocking. These pictures have the air of the 1920s about them. I notice that the architecture of the house as a whole somewhat resembles a sense of Art Deco of the 1920s and 1930s. The tops of the New York skyscrapers, after all, constitute energy towers of a kind.

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阿恩·马西克

我们可以说，整个象屋在某种意义上是一台时间机器，它带领我们进入一个平行的魔法世界。或者是一艘叫做生命的船，在那里乘客们要长途跋涉穿越海洋。

We can say that the entire elephant House is in a sense a time machine, which leads us into a parallel magic world. Or it could be a ship where the passengers take a long journey across the ocean called Life.

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