架构师提供的文本描述。客户(他们现在更多的朋友，多年来一起从事多个项目)来找我们，为他们建造一个度假屋，他们可以在长周末和朋友一起享受，远离他们居住的德里。这是一座私人拥有的小山，位于喜马拉雅山山脉中，靠近营地城镇Kasauli，距离北部城市昌迪加尔(由柯布西耶设计)有两个小时的车程。

Text description provided by the architects. We were approached by clients (who were more friends by now, having worked on multiple projects together over the years) to build for them a holiday house they could enjoy with friends over long weekends, away from Delhi, where they lived. The site is a privately owned hill, located amidst the Himalayan ranges near the cantonment town of Kasauli, which is a two hour drive from the northern city of Chandigarh (designed by Corbusier).

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(Sebastian Zachariah)

这座山是一片狭长的直线地带(占地约5英亩)，从北向南延伸，三面的脚上有一条蜿蜒的道路。我们不想看到一群汽车(通常伴随着度假的随行人员)在房子周围，我们走了一条可以行驶的道路，沿着山走到大约四分之三的山顶，在那里我们把一个像停车场一样的洞穴塞进了山里。从这里可以走木材楼梯，也可以乘坐开放式液压平台电梯(对于在德里严寒的夏天同样使用这座房子的年迈的父母来说，这是一种让步)，带他们到通往前门的木制悬臂式天桥。

The hill is a narrow linear stretch of land (measuring around 5 acres) running north to south, with a road winding around its foot on three sides. Not wanting to see the sight of a fleet of cars (that would normally accompany the holidaying entourage)around the house, we took a motorable road up the hill to about three fourths the ascents, where we tucked a cave like car park into the hill. From here one can either take the timber stairs, or the open hydraulic platform lift ( a concession for the elderly parents who equally use the house in Delhi’s harsh summers) that takes one to the wooden cantilevered walkway bridge leading to the front door.

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在非常有限的平地基础上工作，面临的挑战是为客户创建他想要的4间卧室的房子，面积约8000平方英尺。很明显，我们不希望在这个原始的自然环境中出现两层楼高的建筑，所以我们把注意力集中在创建一个沿着山的东边延伸的机翼，以及一个沿西边的机翼，在一个水平上移动的机翼，这样，西部机翼的屋顶就变成了上东区的一个梯级甲板。这两卷书有一小部分重叠，允许有楼梯，以便于两层楼之间的垂直移动。因此，你开车绕着山头第一次遇到的房子悬臂上东部的体积，只有当你转过北端，下西侧才会变得可见，再一次读为一层楼。由像混凝土屋顶的折纸覆盖的倾斜混凝土平面的几何形状(灵感来自周围的丘陵山脉)定义了入口大厅和入口以北的两间卧室的上部空间，以及入口以南的有生命的餐厅、厨房、工作人员和公共设施。

Working with a very limited area of flat land to build upon, the challenge was to create for the client the 4 bedroom house he desired spread around 8000 square feet of built up area. We clearly did not want a two storey structure come up in this pristine natural environment, so we zeroed in on the idea of creating a wing running along the eastern length of the hill, and a wing running the western length, displaced by a level, such that the roof of the western wing becomes a terraced deck for the upper eastern wing. A small area of overlap of the two volumes allows for a staircase to facilitate vertical movement between the two floors. As a result of this you drive around the hill first encountering the houses cantilevering upper eastern volumes, and only as you turn around the northern tip, does the lower western side become visible, reading as a single storey once again . A geometry of inclined concrete planes capped by an origami like concrete roof ( inspired by the hilly mountain ranges all around) defines the upper volume which encloses the entrance lobby and two bedrooms to the north of the entrance and the living dining , kitchen ,staff and utilities to the south of the entrance.

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在较低的西面，有2间卧室，一间多媒体房，一间商店，一间小按摩和蒸汽房。每个侧翼的卧室和浴室被布置成一系列独立的体积，从山坡上悬挑出来，所有这些都延伸到木甲板上。

In the lower western volume are located 2 bedrooms, a Multimedia room, stores and a small massage and steam room. Bedrooms and bathrooms in each wing are arranged as a series of independent volumes cantilevering out from the hill slope, with all of them opening out onto wooden decks.

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整个房间都用柚木做地板，而当地的印度灰色板岩则在间隙循环走廊的表面上排列，延续了暴露的混凝土天花板和墙壁的灰色。一个独立的、位于中央的火场，有一个铜制烟囱，可以将生活与就餐区域区分开来。类似的铜管也被用来将雨水输送到其他地方，当负天花板斜坡导致中央地区积水时。

Teak timber has been used for floors throughout the rooms while local Indian grey slate lines the surfaces of the interstitial circulatory corridors, continuing the grey of the exposed concrete ceilings and walls. A free-standing centrally located fire place with a copper chimney delineates the living from the dining area. Similar copper pipes have also been used to channel rainwater elsewhere, when negative ceiling slopes cause water to collect in central areas.

一个巨大的悬臂木制观景台，比房子高出几步，在山顶最北端创造了令人叹为观止的雪顶山峰。

A large cantilevered wooden viewing deck, a couple steps higher than the house, offering stunning views of the snow capped peaks has been created on the northernmost tip of the hill.