架构师提供的文本描述。为客户设计一个新的家庭住所的委员会提出了一些挑战和可能性。这片土地非常大，因为这个地区从来没有像邻居那样被细分，但它附带了一座破旧的工人小屋，这座小屋必须保留下来，这要归功于理事会的遗产管理，尽管有塑料风化板覆盖，还有各种各样的铝制窗户。

Text description provided by the architects. The commission to design a new family home for clients posed a number of challenges and possibilities. The site was unusually large for the area having never been subdivided like its neighbours, but came with a run down worker’s cottage, that had to remain due to Council Heritage Controls despite plastic weatherboard cladding and an assortment of aluminium windows. 

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简报是关于一个适应性强的家庭住宅，它必须为定期娱乐的客户创造阴谋和一点戏剧性。最后的设计利用了下降的地形，使一个实质性的，公开的现代加法后，重建的村舍，以街道为基础。结构之间的对比是美学的，材料的，新的附加物是由混凝土，玻璃黑色砖块，和钢建造的。

The brief was for an adaptable family home that had to create intrigue and a little drama for clients who entertain regularly. The final design utilized the falling topography of the site to make a substantial, and overtly modern addition recede behind the rebuilt cottage that addressed the street. The contrasts between the structures were aesthetic, and material, with the new addition being constructed from concrete, glazed black brickwork, and steel. 

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房屋的流通与场地之间蜿蜒曲折，院落将小屋与新的建筑分开，围绕着一棵现有的雅卡兰达树，让人们可以看到各种不同的视线，并增加了大面积建筑所能提供的空间，并将更广阔的视野投射到周边地区。

Circulation through the house meanders with the site, courtyards separating the cottage from the new addition, and around an existing Jacaranda tree allow varied sight lines and play up the luxury of space afforded by the large site size, and frames wider views into the surrounding district.

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在主要的生活和娱乐空间中发现的混凝土、砖块、钢和玻璃的戏剧性和硬度大大软化了楼上，在那里，私人空间发挥了石灰橡木的温暖和更有趣的色彩，特别是在儿童的房间里。隐私和能源效率是由建筑外部的外部可调节的百叶窗提供的，这也提供了一个美学连接回到原来的村舍的水平风化板。

The drama and hardness of the concrete, brick, steel, and glass found in the main living and entertaining spaces softens considerably upstairs where the private spaces play up the warmth of limed oak and more playful colours particularly in the children’s rooms. Privacy, and energy efficiency are provided by the external adjustable louvres on the building exterior, which also provide an aesthetic link back to the horizontal weatherboards of the original cottage.