架构师提供的文本描述。改造和增加了一个可怕的扩展，但最初非常漂亮的农舍在圣凯瑟琳山谷，为Xa Sturgis和安娜本谁是最棒的客户。扩建部分使用的材料来自被拆除的谷仓和包层是为了隐藏比例的现有延伸，同时拉开新的钻头，以揭示关键的景观。这是一个非常谦虚，非常当地的事情真的，令人惊讶的是，它引起了极大的兴趣。在为Xa做这件事的同时，埃里克·帕里(EricParry)为他做了霍伯恩(Holburne)的工作，我感到很尴尬，预算大概是每平方米成本的20倍。

Text description provided by the architects. Alterations and additions to a hideously extended, but originally very pretty farmhouse in St Catherine’s valley for Xa Sturgis and Anna Benn who were the most fantastic clients. The extension used in part materials from the demolished barns, and the cladding was designed to conceal the proportions of the existing extension while pull apart on the new bit to reveal key views into landscape. It is a very modest, very vernaculary thing really, and surprising that it generated a great of interest. I was rather embarrassed doing this for Xa at the same time as Eric Parry was doing the Holburne for him, with a budget something like 20 times the cost per m2.

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当时，我对桑迪·威尔逊(SandyWilson)在剑桥的斯克鲁普露台(Scroope Terraces)扩建工程的稀薄感相当着迷-我喜欢那栋大楼里所有的混凝土长凳等等。星空有一个非常简单的不对称部分，它允许晨光穿透建筑物深处，并将光线注入建筑物。对我来说，这个项目也是一种解决月光的所有热缺陷的方法，因为它太轻了-星空是无情的热质量，而且和它一起非常高效。

At the time, I was rather obsessed by the rawness in Sandy Wilson’s Scroope Terrace extension in Cambridge in which I was working – I love all the concrete benches and so on in that building. Starfall has a very simple asymmetric section that allows the morning light to penetrate deep into the building and flood it with light. For me, the project was also a way of reconciling all the thermal deficiencies of Moonshine, which is far too lightweight – Starfall is ruthlessly thermally massive, and with it incredibly efficient. 

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关键的细节是木材包层，它的设计是为了掩盖(尴尬的)比例的开口，令人吃惊的丑陋后延伸，客户认为必须留在考虑到拆除的费用，只是为了重建等效的体积。该项目预算有限，是英国最保守的计划委员会(Bath)。

The key detail is the timber cladding which is designed to conceal the (awkward) proportions of the openings of the astonishingly ugly rear extension which the client deemed must stay given the cost of demolition just to rebuild the equivalent volume. The project had a limited budget, and the most conservative planning committee (Bath) in the UK.

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他们的策略是找到一种物质语言-包层-让现有建筑的丑陋被蒙蔽和隐藏，同时无缝地包裹在一个新的延伸处。这样做的目的也是为了建造一座性能非常好的建筑，因此在开孔的方式和地点上是经济的。举个例子，你做饭的时候是完全透明的，滑动的玻璃屏幕消失在墙上，让你感觉到山谷边的感觉就像在外面做饭一样(就像在月光下)，但是其他的开口会更有选择性：一个位于原位水泥长凳上方的角落窗户，可以用来阅读周日的报纸。浴室上方的缝隙窗户，可以瞥见野花岸，东侧的屋顶灯可以让晨光尽早进入建筑物的中心(因此是不对称的间距)，新的延伸部分的轮廓可以让最大限度的光穿透到包含的草本植物庭院等…。热团在内部被无情地暴露出来：混凝土地板，裸露的混凝土砌块墙，混凝土厨房和其他建在长凳上的和…周围的超绝缘材料。

The strategy was to find a material language – the cladding - that allowed the ugliness of the existing building to be masked and concealed, whilst also wrapping seamlessly round a new extension. The intention also was to do a building that performs really well, so is economical in how and where openings are placed. For example, there’s complete transparency where you cook, with sliding glass screens that disappear into the walls allowing a sense of the valley side to run through the site and allow you to feel as if you are cooking outside (as at moonshine) but then other openings are more selective: a corner window above an insitu concrete bench for reading Sunday papers, a slot window above the bath to allow glimpses of a wild flower bank, rooflights on the east side to allow morning light into the heart of the building as early as possible (hence asymmetric pitch) with the profile of the new extension designed to allow maximum light to penetrate into a contained herb courtyard etc… The thermal mass is ruthlessly exposed internally: concrete floor, bare plastered concrete block walls, concrete kitchen and other built in benches and superinsulated around this…

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外部包层的设计目的是能够隐藏现有开口的比例(即可以通过现有开口的板)，并在必要时允许隐私，但也可以无缝地环绕扩展部分，以便将新的和现有的集成在一起。整个延伸部分上升了5级，使人们可以看到花园的墙壁到山谷，也可以“控制”外面的公共小巷(俯视)。几乎所有的饰面都是自我完成的：落叶松没有盖子，工地上现有建筑中的粘土砖被重复使用(我们被告知，除非我们使用它们，否则我们不会得到三次拒绝的计划)、裸露的混凝土、模压细木工、裸露的石膏等等。

The external cladding was designed to be able to conceal the proportions of the existing openings (ie a board that could run passed the existing opening) and to allow privacy where necessary, but then seamlessly wrap also around the extension to integrate the new with the existing. The entire extension was raised up 5 steps to allow views over the garden wall to the valley, and also to ‘command’ the public lane outside (ie look down on to it). Pretty much all the finishes are self finished: larch with no capping, reused clay tiles from existing buildings on the site (which we were told that unless we used them we wouldn’t get planning having been refused three times), exposed concrete, shuttering ply joinery, bare plaster, etc.

这所房子被客户们美丽地占据了-我喜欢他们在那里的宽松和创造性的生活方式-以及他们多么不珍贵和控制着他们-他们丰富的精神从那里爆发出来。

The house has been beautifully occupied by the clients – I love the loose and inventive way that they live there – and how un precious and controlling they are – their abundant spirit bursts out of it.