架构师提供的文本描述。这座海滨别墅旨在创造一个地方，让这位驻纽约的建筑师能与他的新西兰根重新连接起来，并将他30年来在沙滩上的经历与他在沙滩上成长过程中仍然记得的东西结合起来，把一种美学和生活方式带回他的祖国。

Text description provided by the architects. This beach house is intended to create a place where the New York based architect can reconnect with his New Zealand roots and bring back to his homeland an aesthetic and way of living that combines what he has experienced in the 30 years away and what he still remembers from his beach orientated upbringing.

 ©  Patrick Reynolds

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该遗址位于道路拐弯处的指节处，呈饼状和锥形，因为它从公路上向山坡倾斜。因此，这限制了建筑的围护结构，因此，在开发设计时注意尽量减少房间的大小，并开发一个高效、灵活的生活空间，方便地连接到室外地区。重要的是要最大限度地利用风景，既可以越过马路对面的保护区，也可以从后面到达奥塔马聚居地上的山丘。

The site, located on the knuckle of the bend in the road, is pie-shaped and tapers as it slopes up the hillside from the road. This limited the building envelope Therefore, in developing the design care was taken to minimize the size of the rooms and to develop an efficient, flexible living space that connects readily to the outdoor areas. It was important to maximize the views, both seaward over the reserve across the road, and up the back of the site to the hill that dominates the Otama settlement.

这位建筑师习惯于住在狭小的公寓里，他们在曼哈顿市中心的公寓里使用了相同的居住/就餐空间，然后为了方便从城市到海滩的过渡，他使用了和他的纽约厨房一模一样的布局和细节。然而，在这里，向外的过渡是海滩体验的本质，所以生活空间被三面包围。

The architect, used to living in the tight quarters, used the same dimensions of their living/dining space in their midtown Manhattan apartment and then to ease the transition from the city to the beach used the exact same layout and detailing as his NYC kitchen. However here the transition to the outside is the essence of the beach experience so the living space is surrounded on three sides by decking.

 ©  Patrick Reynolds

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无论是由于成本和不愿使用城市材料，外部木材元素是粗糙的锯材与水平屏幕使用标准农场击剑板。

Both because of cost and the reluctance to use urban materials the exterior wood elements are rough sawn lumber with the horizontal screens using standard farm fencing battens.

 ©  Patrick Reynolds

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为了消除对挡土墙等的需求，除了开发自然轮廓人行道外，该地点尽量不开发，并已种植了当地的草本植物、灌木和树木。

A minimal amount of site work was done to eliminate the need for any retaining walls etc and other than the development of natural contoured walkways the site is as undeveloped as possible and has been planted out with native grasses, shrubs and trees.