架构师提供的文本描述。Madisonhouse坐落在加州拉昆塔的一座小丘上，靠近棕榈泉。为了保护房子不受极端的沙漠条件的影响，聚集性和物质性被配置成可以抵御太阳和强北风。同时，房子完全沿着东西轴开放，最终形成了一个壮观的室内-室外居住空间，全高度的玻璃墙滑行，以拥抱沙漠景观、灯光和山景。

Text description provided by the architects. The Madisonhouse is perched on a knoll in La Quinta, California, near Palm Springs. In order to shelter the house from extreme desert conditions, the massing and materiality are configured to protect against the sun and strong Northerly winds. Concurrently the house opens completely along an East-West axis culminating in a spectacular indoor-outdoor living space with full height glass walls that slide away to embrace the desert landscape, light and mountain views.

 © Jeremy Bittermann

c.Jeremy Bittermann

该项目被认为是一系列独立的体积设置在下面和之间突出的水平板。这些独立的体积在石头，混凝土和橡木是间隔和配置，以创造不同规模的室内-室外空间之间流动。

The project was conceived as a series of freestanding volumes set beneath and between projecting horizontal slabs. These freestanding volumes in stone, concrete and oak are spaced and configured to create the different scales of indoor-outdoor space that flow between them.

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c.Jeremy Bittermann

在南方，一个包含服务空间的大容量缓冲了房屋的太阳能增益，并向庭院、厨房区域和两端开放。在北方，一卷装有卧室的房间会为强风制造防风林，风速可达每小时100英里。这些卷框一个庭院，主要入口门和一系列玻璃枢轴门，主要入口的房子。

To the South a large volume containing service spaces buffers the house against the solar gain, and opens to the courtyard, the kitchen area and at both ends. To the North a volume containing bedrooms creates a windbreak to severe winds that can reach 100mph. These volumes frame a courtyard, the main entry gates and a series of glass pivot doors, the main entry to the house.

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c.Jeremy Bittermann

这些卷的东西转换为开放式厨房/餐饮/起居区创造了空间，在整个西面高地横向扩展。这是房子的主要空间，它对景观完全开放。三面玻璃门转动和滑动，然后消失在隐藏的墙壁槽中。水磨石地板和白色灰泥天花板将空间水平延伸到景观之外。独立的第二卷-一个石头壁炉，一个黑暗的橡木厨房，一个30英尺长的木头和大理石岛，一个橡木柜子和漂浮的水磨石楼梯-锚定空间，隐藏所有的结构和系统所需的大跨度和悬臂。

An East-West shift in these volumes creates the space for an open kitchen/ dining/ living area that expands laterally across the entire West elevation. This is the main space of the house and it opens completely to the landscape. Glass doors on three sides pivot and slide away and disappear into hidden wall slots. The terrazzo floors and white plaster ceiling extend the space horizontally out the landscape. Separate secondary volumes – a stone fireplace, a dark oak kitchen, a 30-foot long wood and marble island, an oak cabinet and floating cast terrazzo stairs -- anchor the space and conceal all the structure and systems required for the large spans and cantilevers.

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c.Jeremy Bittermann

部分第二层的桥梁，较低的体积，并包含主卧室套房和室外露台/壁炉区。这层楼的空间也配置了强大的体积，固体/空隙关系，以创造一个自由流动的室内-室外空间系列开放的景观。

A partial second story bridges the lower volumes and contains the master bedroom suite and an outdoor terrace/ fireplace area. The spaces on this floor are also configured with strong volumetric, solid/void relationships to create a free flowing indoor-outdoor series of spaces opening to the landscape.

 © Jeremy Bittermann

c.Jeremy Bittermann

而方案是合理的，正交的，一个通过空间斜，动态对角线之间的空间开放空间在多个方向。体积标记的空间，但没有定义它，让景观成为一个完整的，充满活力的一部分，房子。

While the plan is rational and orthogonal, one traverses the space obliquely, with dynamic diagonal views between the volumes opening space in multiple directions. The volumes mark the space but do not define it, allowing the landscape to become an integral and dynamic part of the house.

 © Jeremy Bittermann

c.Jeremy Bittermann

Madisonhouse的设计不仅仅是被动的环境保护。为实现环境目标，选择了建筑组件、组件和固定装置。整个项目使用了绝缘混凝土模板(Icf)墙，制造了超绝缘的r60组件.四英尺厚的石墙和混凝土墙，深的玻璃凹槽和悬挑的大悬臂被计算，以保护房子免受巨大的沙漠太阳能获取。房子从四面八方打开，通过第二层热烟囱吸引空气。庭院反射池和主池为底层区域提供蒸发冷却。高性能玻璃、高效机械系统、固定装置和光伏板进一步降低了房屋的能源配置。

The Madisonhouse was designed to be more than just passively environmental. Building components, assemblies and fixtures were selected to achieve environmental goals. Insulated Concrete Formwork (ICF) walls were used throughout the project, creating super-insulated R60 assemblies. Four-foot thick stone and concrete walls, deep glazing recesses and large cantilevered overhangs were calculated to shield the house from massive desert solar gain. The house opens in every direction to draw air through a second story thermal chimney. The courtyard reflecting pool and main pool provide evaporative cooling for the ground floor areas. High performance glass, high efficiency mechanical systems, fixtures and photovoltaic panels further reduce the energy profile of the house.

 © Jeremy Bittermann

c.Jeremy Bittermann

就像沙漠气候本身一样，Madisonhouse是一项双重性的研究。大的开放和流体空间是由大量的固体和固定的元素构成的。浅白的水磨石地板和台面被暗裂谷橡木橱柜所包围。粗糙的石墙，框架，精确的金属和玻璃门的开口。房子里有80块滑动的玻璃墙，它们都是用来滑动的，完全消失在隐藏的墙壁口袋里。在整个房子里使用的材料很少，但在室内和室外，在整个房子里都有多种使用方式。

Like the desert climate itself, the Madisonhouse is a study in dualities. Large open and fluid spaces are framed by massive solid and fixed elements. Light white terrazzo floors and countertops are bounded by dark rift oak wood cabinetry. Rough stone walls frame openings of precise metal and glass doors. There are eighty sliding glass walls in the house, all configured to slide away and disappear completely into hidden wall pockets. There are few materials used throughout the house but they are used in a multiplicity of ways indoors and outdoors throughout the house.

 © Jeremy Bittermann

c.Jeremy Bittermann

房子的外墙是为了融入沙漠景观而设计的。石墙在当地采石，并将建筑物锚定在工地和邻近的山区。白色的水平屋顶漂浮在这些墙的上方和悬臂上，这是一系列与沙漠的规模和水平有关的强有力的雕塑线，将房屋与自然环境连接起来。

The exterior walls of the house are designed to blend into the desert landscape. The stone walls are quarried locally, and anchoring the building to its site and to the adjacent mountains. The white horizontal rooflines float above and cantilever beyond these walls, a series of strong sculptural lines that relate to the scale and the horizontality of the desert, connecting the house to its natural surroundings.

 First Floor Plan

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