架构师提供的文本描述。这份简报是为了在奥拉基河沟壑中一处具有挑战性、陡峭的地方建造一座新房子。设计方面的挑战之一是将大胆的(规模和位置)干预措施插入到敏感的灌木丛保护区，同时保持谦逊和诗意的感觉。他们的愿望是寻找一种安静的建筑表达方式，一种没有过度表达和噪音的建筑表达方式；一种对周围环境的无声见证。

Text description provided by the architects. The brief was for a new house on a challenging, steep site in the Orakei creek gully. One of the design challenges was to insert a bold (in size and placement) intervention into a sensitive bush reserve whilst still maintaining a sense of modesty and poetic. The desire was to seek out a quiet architectural expression, one that is devoid of excessive articulation and noise; a silent witness to its surroundings.

 © Mark Smith

马克·史密斯

作为雕塑的组成部分，设计发挥程序的纯洁性和规模，通过三种简单的元素形式走下小溪-一层的屋顶，为下一层创造了一个水平平台。

Conceived as sculptural components the design plays on purity and scale of the program articulated through three simple elemental forms that step down the site towards the creek - the roof of one floor creating a level platform for the next.

 © Mark Smith

马克·史密斯

从入口处开始，房子提供了一系列跨越地板宽度的空间体验；从景观中一个几乎是地下的庞然大物转变为一个位于树冠上的高架位置。

From the point of entry the house offers a range of spatial experiences across the width of the floorplate; transitioning from a hunkered almost subterranean position in the landscape to an elevated position perched in the tree canopy.