架构师提供的文本描述。圣罗克住宅的设计基于两个限制：它应该充分利用该地段的南面景观，平均坡度为20%，并且是一栋单层住宅。作为房屋和附近院子的场地，根据同样数量的挖掘和填埋场的计算，30×30米的面积被夷为平地，其高度低于地块最高点3米，采用的是用土工格栅加固的挡土墙。

Text description provided by the architects. The São Roque residence was designed based on two constraints: it should take full advantage of the southern view of the lot with an average slope of twenty percent, and be a single-floor dwelling. As a site for the house and the immediate yard, a thirty by thirty meter area was leveled to a height of three meters below the highest point of the lot, based on a calculation of equal amounts of excavation and landfill, using retaining walls reinforced with geo-grids.

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据确定，住宅的所有元素-庭院、地板和水-都应位于同一水平上。该结构建立在一个由两根柱子组成的模块上，两根柱子相距12米，中间支撑着一根90厘米高的横梁，两端则逐渐变细到20厘米，每根柱子的悬臂长度都在柱子上方四米处。这些横梁的四条线，每隔6米，向东/西方向移动，支撑着由预制混凝土板构成的屋顶。

It was determined that all the elements of the residence – yard, floor, and water – should all be situated on this same level. The structure is based on a module of two pillars set twelve meters apart that support a beam ninety centimeters high at the center but tapering to twenty centimeters at both ends, which are each cantilevered to a length of four meters beyond the pillars. Four lines of these beams running in the east/west direction at intervals of six meters support the roof made of pre-cast concrete slabs.

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该房屋分为五个功能街区纵向运行的北/南方向，即横向的结构。从东到西：包括卧室和电视室的街区；带浴室的管道区；由起居室、餐厅、游泳池和阳台组成的社交区；厨房和烧烤区，其特点是一个很长的柜台；最后，在最西部，服务区，包括一个储藏室，游泳池设备室，洗衣房和桑拿。

The house is organized in five functional blocks running longitudinally in the north/south direction, that is, transversal to the structure. From east to west: the block containing the bedrooms and TV room; the plumbing block with the bathrooms; the social block consisting of the living and dining room, pool and veranda; the kitchen and barbecue block, characterized by a very long counter; and, finally, at the extreme west, the service block, consisting of a pantry, storeroom, pool-equipment room, laundry room and sauna.

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该设计是围绕外部中央枢纽开发的。因此，这套由游泳池和水疗中心组成的组合将社交区划分为两个相同的空间：阳台和客厅/餐厅区域。一扇宽6米、宽2米、高70厘米的滑动木门沿着厨房/烧烤区运行，带有长柜台(它由两根柱子支撑，两端有悬臂)，模仿房子的基本结构模块)，可以用来划分厨房与餐厅，厨房从游泳池，或烧烤区从阳台。

The design is developed around an exterior central hub. Thus, the set made up of the pool and spa divides the social block into two identical spaces: the veranda and the living/dining room area. A sliding wooden door measuring six meters wide by two meters and seventy centimeters high runs along the kitchen/barbecue block equipped with the long counter (which, supported on two pillars and cantilevered on the ends, mimics the house’s basic structural module) and can be used to either divide, or not, the kitchen from the dining room, the kitchen from the pool, or the barbecue area from the veranda.

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社会街区的宽度被连续三层透明玻璃切割：第一层是南院和客厅之间，第二层是客厅和游泳池之间，第三层是走廊和院子的北面。

The social block is cut across its width by three successive planes of transparent glass: the first between the south yard and the living room, the second between the living room and the pool, and the third between the veranda and the yard to the north.