架构师提供的文本描述。这所房子坐落在一个美丽的私人环境中，周围环绕着巨大的普里树、黑森林和其他当地人。建筑物的形式是高架防洪，并承认向西的山，提升到它的海拔。生活区完全打开了这种环境，木材外骨骼参考周围的树木。卧室都有保护室外空间，靠近树木，以增加隐私。房子的位置是为了保护现有的植被，并充分利用阳光和本地鸟类的生活在财产上。

Text description provided by the architects. The house is nestled in a beautifully private setting surrounded with large Puriri trees, Blackwoods and other natives. The building form is elevated for flood protection, and acknowledges the hill to the west, lifting towards it's elevation. The living zone opens completely to this setting, and the timber exoskeleton references the surrounding trees. The bedrooms all have protected outdoor space, being closely located to the trees for increased privacy. The house is located to protect the existing vegetation and to make the most of the sun and the native bird life on the property.

 © Simon Devitt

西蒙·德维特

在大堡岛，这座建筑也必须是可持续的-从客户收到的一封电子邮件中得到的以下摘要提到了这一点：“户外房间是我们花大量时间吃饭、阅读、做家庭作业和午睡的地方；但是，在炎热的夏日里，所有的门都开着，呆在室内的感觉也是很棒的。”

Being on Great Barrier Island, the building also needed to be sustainable - the following abstract from an e-mail received from the Clients refers to this point: "The outdoor room is a place we spend much of our time, eating, reading, doing homework and siesta-ing; but the feeling of being indoors on those hot summer days with all doors open is also fantastic.

还没有足够的冷(由于那个巨大的低E玻璃和良好的设计)的火-我们已经有2只为环境，而不是热。“这是一种令人吃惊的颓废的感觉躺在自由水的浴缸里，由太阳加热，由太阳能驱动。像任何东西一样自由！热水在水箱里从太阳下上升到68度，必须冷却才能从水龙头出来。“有了9台，所有的笔记本电脑、音乐、洗衣机等等，我们只运行了3次发电机。所有的灌溉系统都做聪明的事情。因此，这不仅仅是个人电脑对可持续发展的认可，从我们对木材和油漆的关注中可以看出这一点。“

Not cold enough (owing to that great low E glass and good design) for fires yet - we have had 2 only for ambience, not heat. "It is an astonishingly decadent feeling lying in a bath of free water, heated by the sun, pumped by solar power. Free as anything! Hot water gets up to 68 degrees in the tank from the sun, and has to be cooled to come out the tap. "With 9 staying and all the laptops, music, washing etc we've only run the generator 3 times ever. All the irrigation systems do clever things. So it's more than a PC nod to sustainability, as you know from all our fussing about timbers and paints."

 © Simon Devitt

西蒙·德维特