架构师提供的文本描述。寻求建筑功能、美观、高效和经济的平衡并不是一件容易的事，但这是华堡住宅的简约。客户提出的问题很简单：我们能否以低于10万美元的价格提供一个简单、现代和节能的住宅？

Text description provided by the architects. Seeking to architecturally balance the functional, the handsome, the efficient, and the economical is not an easy task; but this was the brief provided for the Warburg house. The question posed by the client was simple: can we provide a simple, contemporary, and energy efficient home for less than $100,000?

在一座树木茂密的加拿大农田上，这座新房子取代了一座因建筑质量和工作农场的紧张而无法履行其功能的住宅。架构概念很简单：开放、灵活和高效。

On a wooded Canadian farmstead, the new house replaces a dwelling that was no longer able to fulfill its function due to build quality and the strains of a working farm. The architectural concept was simple: open, flexible, and efficient.

作为一个典型的“房子形状”的挤压，新房子漂浮在离地面200毫米的地方。位于农庄南面的一大片空地上，这座新房子对南方的太阳开放，并完成了东部一片小草甸的围护。

As an extrusion of an iconic “house-shaped” form, the new house floats 200mm off of the ground. Positioned along a large clearing to the south of the farmyard, the new house opens itself to the southern sun and completes the enclosure of a small meadow to the east.

以简单优雅的建筑逻辑，艰苦的努力，以保持房子的象征形式的纯洁。在两个钢框架的支持下，简单的形式创造了一个奇异的内部体积。外面的皮肤覆盖着黑色的波纹钢板，足够长来延长整个房子的长度。东墙和西端墙都被打到表单中，以创建一个入场公告，并为两边的入口门提供一个小的天气休息时间。相反的入口提供早晨和晚上的自然光，以及被动冷却在夏季的月份。

With an architectural logic of simple elegance, pain-staking efforts were made to preserve the purity of the house’s iconic form. Supported by two steel frames, the simple form creates a singular interior volume. The exterior skin is draped in black corrugated steel sheets long enough to extend the full length of the house. Both the east and west end-walls are punched into the form to create an announcement of entry and provide a small weather break for the entry doors on either side. The opposed entrances offer morning and evening natural light as well as passive cooling in the summer months.

西面是一个更公开的舞台活动的日常农场生活，提供有利点的范围内的农场，并伴随着一个百年老木屋，从场内搬迁作为外部存储。在东面，一个更小、更亲密的甲板凸出到一片小草地上，这样就能安静地从农场的需求中退却。一种抽象的与区域树木生长有关的模式被应用于雪松板上，它一直垂直延伸到端壁，与黑暗的外部形态形成鲜明对比。

The western façade is a more public stage for the activities of a day-to-day farm life offering vantage points to the extent of the farmyard and is accompanied by a century old log cabin, relocated from within the site as exterior storage. To the east a smaller and more intimate deck protrudes into a small meadow, allowing for a quiet retreat from the demands of the farm. An abstracted pattern relating to regional tree growth is applied to the cedar decking, which continues vertically up the end walls, contrasting the dark exterior form.

内部体积是简单和最小的细节。这个空间有两个元素：结构钢框架和桦树覆盖的“物体”。该物品容纳了所有的功能要素的房子，包括厨房，机械设备，一个完整的浴室与洗衣房，以及存储私人区域的东部。窗户和天窗精确定位，以充分利用自然光从南方曝光，并详细与挤压木框架，突出他们的布局和看法。

The interior volume is simple and minimally detailed. The space is differentiated by two elements: the structural steel frames, and a birch-clad “object”. The object houses all of the functional elements of the house including the kitchen, mechanical equipment, a full bathroom with laundry, and storage for the private area to the east. Windows and skylights are precisely positioned to take full advantage of the natural light from the southern exposure, and are detailed with extruded wooden frames that accentuate their placement and views.

抛光的混凝土地板包含地板辐射采暖，而厚厚的白色外墙是严重绝缘，以提供保护层的元素。该机械系统的设计和执行效率最高。这一点，再加上更高的质量建设过程，获得了房子最高的能源指南的评级可能是一个家庭是不净零。家庭要想比现在更有效率，唯一的办法就是让它产生自己的能量。

The polished concrete floor contains radiant in-floor heating, while the thick white outer walls are heavily insulated to provide a blanket of protection from the elements. The mechanical system was designed and executed to be of the highest efficiency. This, paired with the higher quality construction processes garnered the house the highest EnerGuide rating possible for a home that is not net-zero. The only way for the home to be more efficient than it is, is to have it generate its own energy.

作为一个单独的原型和系统的组合，沃堡宫通过调查一个简单的建筑所能扮演的角色，为生物和加拿大建筑开创了一个先例。通过对新兴技术和创新的建筑方法的探索，实现了一个更经济、高效和功能更强的住宅建筑系统的根本步骤。

Both as an individual prototype and as an assemblage of systems, the Warburg house sets a precedent for bioi as well as for Canadian architecture by investigating the role a simple architecture can take. Through an exploration of emergent technologies and innovative construction methodologies, a fundamental step towards a more affordable, efficient, and functional system of residential architecture has been realized.