架构师提供的文本描述。POD精品酒店坐落在开普敦的营地湾“地带”的末端，旨在为那些寻找海滨豪华，以谨慎和时尚的方式包装。这座15室的建筑巧妙地放置在现场，让每个房间都能看到营地湾海滩、台山、狮子头像或12位使徒的景象。在一些较大的房间里，可以看到两个或更多这样的开普敦地标。

Text description provided by the architects. The POD boutique Hotel is sited at the Cape Town end of the Camps Bay “strip” and is intended to serve those looking for beachfront luxury packaged in a discreet and stylish manner. The 15 Room building has been cleverly placed on the site to allow each of the rooms a vista of Camps Bay Beach, Table Mountain, Lions Head or the 12 Apostles. In some of the larger rooms, views of a combination of 2 or more of these Cape Town landmarks are on offer.

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与其以居住环境为主的建筑相关联的建筑，在相对透明和视觉透的底层平面上，作为一种优雅的规则形式组合而聚集在一起。这些人自豪地坐在一个大胆界定财产范围的支柱上。这座建筑是从街道边界向后退的，它提供了更广阔的海滨和山区环境所提供的景观。墙壁和屏风提供了隐私和与世隔绝的邻居，同时提供景观以外的景观。提供全方位的空间体验；从亲密的室内和室外“角落”走到开辟规划、社交和娱乐空间的道路。

Scaled to relate to its predominantly residential context, the building is massed accordingly as an elegant composition of regular forms atop a relatively transparent and visually permeable ground floor plane.  These sit proudly on a plinth that boldly defines the extent of the property. The building is set back from the street boundaries and is this that affords the vistas on offer by the broader beachfront and mountainous context. Walls and screens provide privacy and seclusion from one’s neighbours whilst affording views to the landscape beyond.  A full spectrum of spatial experience is on offer; right the way through from intimate indoor and outdoor “corners” to open plan social and entertaining spaces.

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酒店的房间是一系列开放式的空间，掩盖了他们实际占用的紧凑的足迹。空间感觉慷慨和舒适，并完成在一个调色板的天然材料(木材，板岩，花岗岩)，直接关系到建筑的环境，所处的位置。

The hotel rooms are a series of open plan spaces that belie the compact footprint they actually occupy.  Spaces feel generous and comfortable and are finished in a palette of natural materials (timber, slate, granite) that relate directly to the context in which the building is located.

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对细节的关注在建筑的每一个设计、选择和连接中都是显而易见的，定义POD语言的元素在整个建筑中都很明显；其中包括：顶层套房的2层高隐私鳍，可以挡住街道上的景色，但可以看到海滩；入口屏幕和特色墙，由建筑工地本身回收的脚手架组成；有机形状的钢筋，有悬臂式的冰井，在四层垂直地板之间的楼梯井中有张紧的不锈钢筛网，然后是木料“壁龛”，在每个房间里支撑着床和浴场。

Attention to detail is evident in every design selection and junction in the building and elements that define the language of POD are in evidence throughout the building; these include, amongst others the 2-storey high privacy fins on the penthouse suites that are oriented to block views in from the street but allow views out to the beach, the entrance screen and feature wall that is composed of scaffold planks recycled from the building site itself, the organic shaped bar with its cantilevered ice wells, the tensioned stainless steel screen in the stairwell that stretches between 4 vertical floors and then the timber “alcoves” that hold the beds and bathing areas in each of the rooms.

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材料和细节的选择导致了一座既连贯又连贯的建筑。建筑物的两个区域不是相同的，但它们显然都与更大的整体有关。在优雅和谨慎的演习，POD是一个建筑，有一个明确但低调的身份本身。

The selection of materials and family of details has resulted in a building that is both consistent and coherent.  No two areas of the building are the same but they all patently relate to the greater whole.  An exercise in elegance and discretion, POD is a building that has a clear yet understated identity of its own.

 First Floor Plan

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