有客户来找我们买这房子，他们确切地知道他们想要哪间房间，就像“Vaastu/风水”(Vaastu/…)所说的那样他们正在寻找一位建筑师，他将这些空间按他们的意愿组合在一起。这是一个门控式开发项目的一部分，建筑商开发的每一栋别墅都是相似的，都有殖民参照，但由于客户特别要求引进自己的建筑师，建筑商对此表示宽慰，条件是房子外部必须是一座简单的白色直线结构。

We were approached for this house by clients who knew exactly where they wanted which rooms, as ‘vaastu/feng shui’ dictated…they were looking for an architect who would string these spaces together as they desired. This was part of a gated development where every villa developed by the builder was similar and had colonial references, but on the client’s special request to bring in their own architect, the builder relented, on condition that the house be a simple white straight lined structure on the outside.

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这座房子的核心是一个双高的非正式空间，客户很想把它作为休息室使用，这样就可以直接看到房子的所有区域。这些房间被松散地绑在中央核心周围。由于这个中心空间周围的房间，获得自然光是一个挑战，这是通过创造一系列的小天窗和牧师开口来实现的，这些小天窗和牧师开口充满了中央空间的光线。一块两层高的木板屏风，悬挂在天花板上，尽头是地板，把门厅和休息室隔开，隔开通往卧室的一层桥上的移动屏障。

The house has at its heart a double height informal space that the client was keen to use as a lounge that allowed direct visual access to all areas of the house. The rooms are loosely tied around this central core. As a result of the rooms surrounding this central space, getting natural light was a challenge and this was achieved by creating a series of little skylights and clerestory openings that suffuse the central space with light. A double height screen in slatted wood, suspended from the ceiling and ending short of the floor, separates the entrance lobby from the lounge, and screens off movement on the first floor bridge that leads to the bedrooms.

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这座房子建在一个角落的地块上，坐落在一个翠绿的区域内，为业主提供了足够的隐私。它的规划方式是，所有的公共空间都在地面上，私人空间在上层。一个主套房，一个客房，和一个由两个孩子的卧室和一个中央游乐区连接在一起的集群决定了上一层。楼下除了中央休息室外，还有起居室、餐厅、厨房和卧室套房。

The house is built on a corner plot and nestles within a verdant green zone, offering enough privacy to the owners .Its planned in a way that all public spaces are on the ground level and the private ones on the upper level. A master suite, a guest bedroom, and a cluster of two kid’s bedrooms joined by a central play area define the upper floor. The lower floor houses the living and dinning rooms, the kitchen, and a bedroom suite, in addition to the central lounge.

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由于开发商要求房子的外部保持简单，它被认为是一个上面白色的包住卧室的盒子，漂浮在透明的玻璃基座上(包含公共区域)。大悬臂悬挂在玻璃盒子上方的大部分，创造了一种轻盈和失重的感觉。玻璃围护沿所有周边墙壁在较低的地板，确保模糊的界限之间的室内和室外，并允许甲板周围的房子使用时，娱乐。

Owing to the developers request to keep the house simple on the outside, it was conceived as an upper white box housing the bedrooms, floating over a transparent glass base (containing the public areas). Large cantilevers suspend most parts of the upper floor over the glass box below creating a sense of levity and weightlessness. Glass enclosures along all the periphery walls on the lower floor ensure a blurring of the boundaries between indoors and outdoors and allow for the decks surrounding the house to be used while entertaining.

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客户要求设立一个可以作为室内空间的游泳池(以提供室内工作人员的隐私)，因为将其定位在女儿套房上方的悬空下面，这一要求得到了尊重。一系列细长的混凝土柱将它与生活空间隔开，而一个双高的竖井从上面的天窗吸引光线，并与上面女儿的卧室形成视觉连接。开放的滑动玻璃周围的游泳池甲板，允许它充分开放时，需要。

The clients request for a pool that could be cordoned off as an indoor space (to provide privacy from the staff in the house) was respected by locating it just below the overhang of the daughter’s suite above. A series of slender concrete columns separate it from the living space, while a double height shaft rising above the pool draws light from the skylight above, and makes a visual connect with the daughter’s bedroom above. Openable sliding glazing all around the pool decking allow for it to be fully opened up when desired.

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所有悬臂板的底部都暴露在混凝土中，内部的饰面是为了制造材料间的张力而选择的，目的是将粗糙与光滑并列-裸露的混凝土天花板、木材和铜，贴在灰色威廉大理石、水磨石和丝绸光滑的表面上。

The underside of all cantilevered slabs was left exposed in concrete, and the finishes for the interiors were selected with the intent of creating a tension between materials, to juxtapose the rough with the smooth- the exposed concrete ceiling, timber and copper against the smooth surfaces of grey William marble, terrazzo and silks.

 First Floor Plan

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