架构师提供的文本描述。背景：建筑的体积和聚集性从围绕沃尔克斯比纳的历史合奏建筑中汲取了他们的线索。外观完全是一个单一的颜色，在纹理和阴影的细微差别，以匹配和样本现有邻居的外观和感觉。

Text description provided by the architects. Context: the volume and massing of the building take their cues from the historic ensemble architecture surrounding the Volksbühne. The facade is entirely excecuted in a single colour, with sublte differences in texture and shade contriving to match and sample the look and feel of the existing neighbourhood.

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C.Werner Huthmache

灰泥、门、窗框、百叶窗、花园楼梯和所有固定装置和配件都涂成石灰色，以配合正面。这种严谨单调的构图在概念上也强调了零能量建筑所需要的严密的建筑围护结构。

The plaster, doors, window frames, blinds, garden stairs and all fixtures and fittings are painted stone gray to match the facade. This rigourous monotone composition also conceptually underlines the tight building envelope required by a zero-energy building.

窗户的组成可以作为这个主题的对立面，在这个主题中，巨大的开口以立面为傲，稍微向侧面倾斜，以增加节奏，并在正面播放。街景的倒影是意料之外的，倾斜的，窗户成了街景的画框。

The composition of the windows serve as a counterpoint to this theme, where the large openings stand proud of the facade, tilted slightly to the side to add rhythm and play to the facade. Reflections of the streetcape are unexpected and askew, the windows become the picture frames of the street.

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C.Werner Huthmache

画廊：画廊面向街道，有一个大的玻璃正面。游客被领下楼梯，来到一个巨大的、将近5米高的展厅，从街道和花园里瞥见了一束牧师的玻璃。公寓

Gallery: the gallery opens up to the street with a large glazed frontage. The visitor is guided down a stair to a large, almost 5m hight exhibition hall, glimpsed from the street and garden with a band of clerestory glazing. Apartment &Maisonettes: the building contains one garden maisonette, one single story appartment, and two penthouse maisonettes.

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C.Werner Huthmache

固定装置和配件是简单和清晰的，特别是在最高的质量，使用最好的材料。这些公寓有3米的标准天花板高度，6米高的双高空间-除了一层的公寓走廊-以及巨大的玻璃开口，创造出宽敞、轻盈的居住空间。

Fixtures and fittings are simple and clear, excecuted in the very highest quality, using the best materials. The apartments have 3m standard ceiling heights, double height spaces of 6.5m - except for the one-storey apartment gallery -, and large glazed openings serve to create generous, light filled living space.

这些舱室作为一个开放的空间排列在一个中央服务中心周围，包括厨房、浴室和内部楼梯。服务核心也容纳了完整的高度滑动墙，可以被拉出来，按需要划分空间，允许完全用户定制空间。

The appartments are concieved as an open sequence of spaces arranged around a central service core containing kitchens, bathrooms and interior stairs. The service cores also house the full height sliding walls that can be pulled out to divide up the spaces as required, allowing for full user customisation of the spaces.

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C.Werner Huthmache

能量概念：“Passivhaus”是完全能量优化的。高绝缘建筑围护结构由一个带有三面玻璃的EIFS系统组成.室温由98%热回收的通风系统调节。低余热需求由地热装置和屋顶上的太阳能集热器提供。

Energy Concept: the “Passivhaus” is totally energy-optimised. The highly insulated building envelope consists of an eiFs system with 3-way glazing. Room temperature is regulated by a ventilation system with 98% heat recovery. The low remaining heating requirements are served by a geothermal installation and solar collectors on the roof.

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C.Werner Huthmache

饮用水是在淡水站局部加热的(与中央供热相比节省了15%的能源)，其他的水是由灰色水系统提供的。屋顶上的光伏装置输入电网以抵消传统的电力消耗。街道南面的大窗户安装了反光百叶窗，以减少夏季的热量增加，并允许冬季的太阳热量输入，以及全年提供自由裁量权。

Potable water is heated locally in fresh water stations (15% energy savings compared to central heat- ing), other water is provided by a grey water system. A photovoltaic installation on the roof feeds into the grid to offset conventional electric consumption. The large, south facing windows to the street are fitted with reflective blinds to reduce heat gain in the summer and allow solar heat input in winter, as well as offering discretion all year round.