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奥兰治格罗夫位于一个以传统平房式单人住宅为特色的社区，是西好莱坞城的一个新地标。这座建筑设计巧妙，与邻里兼容，但与邻居的材料调色板和比例尺不同。该项目参照现代主义的建筑惯例，而不是传统家庭生活的倾斜屋顶形式，呈现出与西好莱坞折中的、往往是非传统的人口结构相一致的特点。与邻近的建筑不同，这座建筑与街道有着很强的关系，因为它在正面有大量的高度可用的阳台区域。

Located in a neighborhood characterized by traditional bungalow style single-family residences, Orange Grove is a new landmark for the City of West Hollywood. The building is sensitively designed and compatible with the neighborhood, but differs in material palette and scale from its neighbors. Referencing architectural conventions of modernism rather than the pitched roof forms of traditional domesticity, the project presents a characteristic that is consistent with the eclectic and often unconventional demographic of West Hollywood. Distinct from neighboring structures, the building creates a strong relationship to the street by virtue of its large amount of highly usable balcony area in the front façade.

 © Marvin Rand

马文·兰德

虽然有戏剧性的和更大的规模元素定义了建筑，它也被分解成可理解的人类尺度的部分，并本身被分解成两个不同的建筑物。橙色格罗夫展示了一种类似于辛德勒之家，加州现代主义的象征，就在不远的地方打破了形象。就像辛德勒宫一样，传统的窗户和门廊建筑元素成为抽象雕塑整体的一部分。在辛德勒大厦，在结构混凝土墙板之间的缝隙中发现了窗户。在Orange Grove，窗户插在建筑物不同部分之间的缝隙中。

While there are dramatic and larger scale elements that define the building, it is also broken down into comprehensible human scale parts, and is itself broken down into two different buildings. Orange Grove displays a similar kind of iconoclasm as the Schindler House, an icon of California modernism, located a short distance away. Like the Schindler House, the conventional architectural elements of windows and porches become part of an abstract sculptural ensemble. At the Schindler House, windows are found in the gaps between structural concrete wall panels. At Orange Grove, windows are inserted in gaps between different sections of the building.

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橘子林的设计是由微妙的紧张关系产生的。建筑物的体积和窗户、门和阳台的布置不是静态的，而是构成一个活跃的三维运动构图。建筑的每一块都是一个坚固而清晰的形状，比如在东面和北面包围着第二层阳台的波纹金属环绕。这种清晰划分的另一个例子是，在前面的立面周围使用了两个方形外形阳台，在它们之间建立了对话-一个是小的，另一个是大的，一个是在前面打开的，另一个是用不锈钢板蒙住的。同时，每个阳台与建筑物中的其他元素相平衡和相关，较小的阳台位于下面的车道门，另一个与卷起门和一楼阳台有关。每个建筑元素本身就是一个抽象的形式-比如一个窗口变成一个狭缝，或者窗户变成一个框架框，同时也成为一个更大的整体的一部分。尽管这座建筑可能无法反映现状，但它满足了一个新兴的利基市场的消费者的需求，他们想要大量、简单的内部空间，以及一种基于空间、轻型和工业材料的阁楼，而不是平房。

The design of Orange Grove is generated by a subtle balance of tensions. Building volumes and the placement of windows, doors and balconies are not static but rather constitute an active three-dimensional composition in motion. Each piece of the building is a strong and clearly defined shape, such as the corrugated metal surround that encloses the second story balcony in the east and north facades. Another example of this clear delineation is the use of two square profile balcony surrounds in the front façade that set up a dialogue between them—one is small, the other large, one is open at the front, the other is veiled with stainless steel slats. At the same time each balcony is balanced and related to other elements in the building, the smaller one to the driveway gate below and the other to the roll-up door and first floor balcony. Each building element is intended to read as an abstract form in itself—such as a window becoming a slit or windows becoming a framed box, while also becoming part of a larger whole. Although this building may not mirror the status quo it answers to the desires of consumers in a burgeoning niche market who want large, simple interior volumes of space, and a paradigm based on space, light and industrial materials of the loft rather than the bungalow.