架构师提供的文本描述。该物业位于新西兰惠灵顿。它坐落在直面东面的道路下，俯瞰惠灵顿港外的植物园。邻近的房子北高得多，南面高得多。该网站直接失去阳光的北部，但同时收到了慷慨的上午和下午的阳光，并在公路上，盛行的西北风吹过顶部。这所房子被布置在两个主要的外部区域，东部和西部。

Text description provided by the architects. The property is located in Wellington, New Zealand. It sits just below the road facing east, looking over the botanical gardens out to Wellington Harbour. A neighbouring house sits much higher to the north with another lower to the south. The site loses sun directly to the north, but receives both generous morning and afternoon sun and being set down from the road the prevailing northwesterly winds blow over the top. The house is laid out around 2 main outside areas, east and west.

 © Paul McCredie

保罗·麦克里迪

业主有一个大家庭，有更大的和更小的孩子。这所房子的布置是为了容纳这些不同年龄组的人，卧室在不同的楼层，中间有各种各样的居住空间，墙壁上有艺术，还有一个游泳池，供家庭中热衷游泳的人使用。

The owners have a large family, with both older and younger children. The house is arranged to accommodate these different age groups with bedrooms on different levels and a variety of living spaces in the middle with walls to house art and a swimming pool for the keen swimmers in the family.

 © Paul McCredie

保罗·麦克里迪

这座房子有两种主要的正式姿态。简单的瓦楞铁屋顶包裹和框架的房子，这有助于创建一个关系的房子的地区。这些绿色也帮助房子退到绿色植物的背景下。与此形成鲜明对比的是，在瓦楞纸铁皮屋顶之间，还有一个更有机的木质包层元素，它是车库和卧室的住房。这个元素受到景观的影响，当它在房子里滑行时，它创造了一种黑暗和木质，以取代被移除的植被所失去的部分。其中的部分已折叠或切割，供楼下主要起居区的照明之用。楼下有一个游泳池和一个简单的卧室，供大家庭使用。

Two main formal gestures define the house. Simple corrugated iron roofs wrap and frame the house, which help create a relationship with the houses of the area. The green colour of these also helps the house recede into the backdrop of greenery. In contrast to this, and housing the garage and bedrooms, a more organic wooden clad element runs between the corrugated iron roofs. This element is influenced by the landscape and as it glides through the house it creates a darkness and woodiness that is intended to replace some of that lost by the removed vegetation. Sections of it have been folded or cut to house the lighting for the main downstairs living areas. Downstairs there is a pool and simple bedrooms for extended family.