架构师提供的文本描述。这座房子坐落在悬崖上，可以俯瞰俄勒冈州高沙漠中起伏的山毛榉草甸，可以看到喀斯喀德山的景色在西部地平线上占据主导地位。业主要求为他们的家庭提供一个非常耐用和节能的住所。对净零房的要求需要广泛使用光伏电池板、地源热泵、仔细考虑白天照明和遮阳策略以及超绝缘结构。

Text description provided by the architects. This home sits on a bluff overlooking rolling sagebrush meadows in Oregon’s High Desert with views of the Cascade Mountains dominating the western horizon. The owners requested an extremely durable and energy efficient home for their family. The request for a net zero house necessitated extensive use of photovoltaic panels, ground source heat-pumps, careful consideration of day lighting and shading strategies, and a super-insulated structure.

 © Alan Brandt

艾伦·勃兰特

意大利建筑师和客户的儿时朋友玛丽亚·奇亚拉·特雷维森(MariaChiaraTrevisan)为这座建筑创造了最初的愿景，作为对这三块最初设想为平行体(长方形立方体)，在地球上处于不同的角度，演变成三座用石头包裹的有壳的建筑，这是对三姐妹山的松散参照，这座山占据了整个家的视野。

Italian architect and childhood friend of the clients, Maria Chiara Trevisan created the original vision for the structure as a gift to them. The three masses, originally conceived as parallelepipedo (rectangular cubes) resting at various angles in the earth, evolved into three shelled structures clad in stone, a loose reference to the Three Sisters mountains which dominate the home’s view.