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佛吉尼亚福尔斯教堂私人巴克罗夫特湖沿岸的海滨地段在房地产市场上是罕见的，因此，当这片土地上市时，客户就把房子当成了原样：这是20世纪60年代分裂水平的一个经久不衰的象征。

Waterfront lots along private Lake Barcroft in Falls Church, Virginia are rare finds in the real estate market, so when this lot became available, the clients took the house as it was: a weathered symbol of the 1960s split-level.

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建筑师们试图利用这一基本的组织来获得一个优势：开发街道边/水边住宅的个性，但同时也承认这两个世界的现代联系是有趣的。房子的美化街道面，包括入口，办公室，车库和客房，使人想起原来的房子的保留和规模。房子的后面，有起居室和餐厅，还有主人套房，在树林里爆炸，看到陡峭的山丘，俯瞰着下面的水。后面的露台，一个由房子的“L”定义的室外房间，向远处的枫树倾斜。主卧室是后部新增的“树屋”，垂直推进房子的扩建。但这是视觉和组织之间的联系，房子的分裂水平和外面的景观以外-打开空间彼此之间，跨越边界之间的正面和背面，内外，上面和下面，使整个的部分。

Saving the bones of the front to back split-level, the architects sought to use this basic organization to an advantage: exploiting the street side / water side split personality of the residence, but acknowledging that the fun is in the modern connection of the two worlds. The landscaped street face of the house, containing the entry, office, garage and guest rooms, recalls the reserve and scale of the original house. The rear of the house, with the living and dining rooms, and master suite, explodes into the woods, opening views to the steep hill that plummets to the water below. The rear terrace, an outdoor room defined by the "L" of the house, leans out into the maples beyond. The master bedroom is the "tree house" of the new rear addition, pushing the expansion of the house vertically. But it's the visual and organizational connections between the split levels of the house and out to the landscapes beyond - opening up the spaces to one another, crossing the boundaries between front and back, inside and outside, above and below, that makes the whole out of the parts.