架构师提供的文本描述。这个项目是一个高度精心设计的响应客户的要求，以尊重现有的力量和微妙的房子。这是一个谦逊的工作，建立在物质和详细丰富的现有遗产上市的房子。

Text description provided by the architects. This project is a highly crafted response to the client’s request for a house that respects the strength and delicacy of the existing. It is a work of humility, that builds on the material and detailed richness of the existing heritage listed house.

 © Robert Frith

罗伯特·弗里奇

现有的房子是集中设置在一个传统的四分之一英亩的街区，周围有一个成熟的，美丽的花园。从花园到房子的过渡被认为是与房子初次接触的一个重要部分。花园屏蔽和保护房子，并提供了一个隐藏房子的机会，允许它只向受邀者透露。

The existing house is set centrally on a traditional quarter acre block surrounded by a well established and luscious garden. The transition through the garden to the house was considered an important part of the initial encounter with the house. The garden screens and protects the house and provides an opportunity to conceal the house, allowing it to be revealed only to the invited.

 © Robert Frith

罗伯特·弗里奇

从形式上讲，这座房子由两部分组成。第一个是对现有房屋屋顶形式的扩展。这对于继续维持现有建筑物的规模和质量是很重要的。它还创造了一个机会，引入了一个新的解释材料调色板的吉拉地板，砖石墙和木材窗框架。第二个是插入一个新的紧皮木材和钢盒子，这是开放的末端，并仔细切割其两侧的开口。这些洞口是由钢框架窗户形成的，其深度与木材覆盖墙的厚度相当。深钢框架将光线和阴影的作用清晰地展现在房子里，并捕捉到玻璃内部的倒影中的景观图像。这些开口的位置既涉及内部，也涉及到与景观的关键连接。

Formally, the house is composed of two parts. The first is an extension to the roof form of the existing house. This was important to continue the scale and mass of the existing building. It also created the opportunity to introduce a new interpretation of the material palette of jarrah flooring, masonry walls and timber window framing. The second is an insertion of a new tight skinned timber and steel box, which is open at the end and has carefully cut openings in its sides. The openings were formed by steel framed windows, with an exaggerated depth to match the thickness of timber clad walls. The deep steel frames articulate the play of light and shade into the house as well as capture images of the landscape in reflections within the glass. The placement of these openings relate both to the interior and the creation of key connections to the landscape.

 © Robert Frith

罗伯特·弗里奇

在内部，一个核心的具体核心创建了项目的组织和概念中心。这是强调了额外的重量和混凝土的存在，在核心是厨房，房子的中心。中心周围是家庭、餐饮、生活和工作场所。中心位置的核心鼓励移动和探索，同时也框架或创造新的遇到景观和花园。建筑在三个层次上，每个空间都有一个独特的、不同的外部连接。

Internally, a central concrete core creates the organisational and conceptual centre of the project. This is emphasised by the extra weight and presence of the concrete, .Contained within the core is the kitchen, the heart of the house. Located around the core are the family, dining, living and work spaces. The central placement of the core encourages movement and exploration, while also framing or creating new encounters with the landscape and garden. Built over three levels each space has a unique and different connection to the outside.

 © Robert Frith

罗伯特·弗里奇

餐厅外面有一层甲板，坐落在新添物和一棵不寻常的桉树之间。随意使用的时刻已经设计成混凝土长凳的形式，从架子到休息室座椅和台阶，到外部甲板，这些都是非常高的，可以作为坐在花园中的地方。

A deck is nestled outside the dining room between the new addition and an extraordinary eucalyptus tree. Moments for casual use have been designed into the house in the form of a concrete bench that transforms from shelving to lounge seating and steps to the external deck that are extra high to act as places to sit amongst the garden.

 © Robert Frith

罗伯特·弗里奇

后花园是由粗糙的砖块和随机石灰石块的边界墙定义的。这些被认为是花园和项目的空间形式的一部分。新的石灰石挡土墙和花园床为花园提供了一个几何图形的末端，创造了一个沉思的空间来坐下来，在它的环境中对房子进行反思。

The rear garden is defined by boundary walls in rough brickwork and random limestone block. These were considered part of the spatial form of the garden and the project. New limestone retaining walls and garden beds provide a geometric end to the garden, creating a contemplative space to sit and reflect on the house in its setting.

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