架构师提供的文本描述。不同的房子，不同的故事。

Text description provided by the architects. Different houses , have different stories.

位于穆纳瓦利的一个小村庄，靠近Alibaug，一个最受欢迎的度假胜地，为富裕的孟买市民建造他们理想的乡村家园。

Located in a small village Munavali, proximal to Alibaug, a favorite getaway, for affluent Bombay citizens as a place to build their dream country home.

那块地(3英亩)部分是一片塔马林和芒果树的树林，有奇怪的，香帕树，瓦德树。地块的一部分低了四英尺，是一片杂乱无章的稻田。物业的前面是一条不那么繁忙的柏油路。

The allotment (3 acres) was partly a grove of Tamarind and Mango trees , with the odd , Champa, Vad tree. Part of the plot was four feet lower and was, an unkempt paddy field . The front of the property is a not so busy asphalt road.

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当开车在雷加德地区转转时，人们经常会看到当地的砖块堆在他们周围的绿色土地上被烘焙-有些留下了，也被遗弃了…。。

When driving around the Raigad district , one often chances to see local brick stacks being baked on the green lots that surround them – some remain and are also abandoned ….

这些构成了马哈拉施特拉邦独特的景观特征。

These form a peculiar feature of the landscape in Maharashtra.

我们，想知道在这些近乎原始的乳突形状中掏空和栖息会是什么感觉。

We, wondered what it would be like to hollow out and inhabit these almost primitive mastaba like forms.

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我们的兴趣在于利用这个形象作为房子的起源。

Our interest lay in using this image as a genesis of the house .

进一步的概念，被告知的网站特征，如突出的塔马林树和方向，方面，风向和雨方向…。。

Further conception, was informed by site features like prominent Tamarind trees and orientation, aspect, wind and rain direction …..

房子的两个主翅膀长了很长的一段，彼此成直角坐着，围绕着一棵长着斜角的好奇的树。

Long stretches of the two main wings of the house , sit at right-angles to each other and about a curious tree which has grown at a leaning angle ……

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每个房间两边都有开口，支持简单的交叉通风和轻型…右侧的入口。.德西(乡村)的房子有特别黑暗的内饰，提供从阳光灼热的户外…的休息。。

Every room is cut on two sides with openings ,supporting easy cross ventilation and ingress of just the right about of light…..DESI (country) houses have peculiarly dark interiors offering respite from the sun –scorched outdoors…..

附加的设施，允许与户外的亲密接触，在明显的反对城市生活，在这里你将不需要一本书，当你坐在锅里。

Attached facilities, allow for an intimate interface with the outdoors, in marked opposition to urban life, here you wouldn’t need a book when you sit on the pot……

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房间的顺序是简朴的，作为一个农场建筑，你必须走到室外去换房间…。

The sequencing of the rooms, is frugal, and in series as a farm building, you must walk outdoors to change rooms…

居住空间有一个奇怪的棚子般的体积，在那里，房子的材料聚集在一起，相当松散的…。。暗示不完整，创造一种沉浸在周围植被中的感觉。

The living space has a curious shed-like volume, where the materials of the house come together rather loosely ….. Insinuating incompleteness and creating a sense of being immersed in the vegetation around.

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房子的尸体像鳄鱼一样藏在树冠下，在河岸…的边缘。。

The body of the house hides under tree canopies like a gator , at the edge of a river bank….

砖块的选择是基于颜色、强度、光洁度？手工制作单元的瑕疵是整体表达…的关键。

The choice of BRICK was based on color, strength, finish--- --blemishes of a hand-made unit were key to the overall expression…

红土砖并没有试图精确，也没有试图创造印度建筑中常见的图案或标尺，它是静止的-一堆，它的大量隐藏和揭示在它里面的生命(…)。。砖的厚度-质量，保持室内空间舒适凉爽。

The red earth brick does not attempt to be precise, neither does it try to create patterns or jaalis as commonly seen in Indian architecture, the brick is what it is , at rest --- a STACK , its mass concealing and revealing life within it….. The sheer thickness –mass of the brick, keeps the interior spaces comfortably cool.

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职业经验优先于正式手势…。太阳、雨和风自由地进入这所房子，并将在几年内标记它…。.这些堆积物将逐渐被发光的苔藓覆盖，自然会挣扎回来.住在乡下的房子是关于见证这场战争的…。

Experience of occupation takes precedence over formal gestures…. Sun , rain and wind freely enter the house and will mark it over the years …..the stacks will gradually get covered with luminescent moss, nature will fight its way back……. Living in a country home is about witnessing this war…..

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这个水池是从下面地球上树木的影子中形成的，我们在一个特别炎热的下午…上注意到了这一模式。。在这些地区，水会自动成为生命的来源，…。。被树叶…吞没。

The pool, takes form from the shadow of the trees on the earth below, a pattern we noticed on an especially hot afternoon ….. In such regions water automatically becomes a source of life…. Getting engulfed by foliage….

这是一个设计-构建任务-我们第一次作为建筑师…。

This was a DESIGN-BUILD assignment --- our first as architects…..

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我们，有一位砖匠-古怪！，6名木匠-他们的收音机嗡嗡作响！一位老石匠的手硬得像石头一样，证明了他一生的工作，还有我们的工程师28年来一直在质疑从设计决策到施工接头，再到令人沮丧的水平的必要性、意义和力量！

We, had one brick mason--- eccentric!, 6 carpenters – with their radios blaring! ,an old stone cutter whose hands as hard as stone gave evidence of his life’s work and our engineer all of 28 yrs- who questioned the necessity, sense and strength of everything from design decisions to construction joints, to frustrating levels!!!

我们，喜欢建造这座房子.。

We ,enjoyed building this house……..