架构师提供的文本描述。简约是简单地翻新和重建一个现有的房子和相关的平顶画廊厨房，以达到当代的生活水平。这房子是一个典型的单一排扣20世纪中叶的梯田房屋，现有的画廊厨房返回。

Text description provided by the architects. The brief was to simply refurbish and recondition an existing house and associated flat roofed gallery kitchen to reach contemporary living standards. The house is a typical single breasted mid-twentieth century terraced house with an existing gallery kitchen return.

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这位客户是一位对园艺很感兴趣的退休教师。房子的直接环境是劣质的临时添加到原来的露台。房子以前遭受了视觉以及身体上缺乏与花园的联系，一个没有同情心的相邻延伸对一个其他良好的方向产生了负面影响。

The client is a retired teacher with a keen interest in gardening. The house immediate context is of poor quality ad-hoc additions to the original terrace. The house previously suffered from a visual as well as a physical lack of connection to the garden, with an unsympathetic adjoining extension negatively impacting on an otherwise good orientation.

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在现有的回报，是添加了一个简单的包赤陶瓦和外部绝缘。这套新的护套比原来的投资回报高出250万英镑，里面有一小部分4平方米的土地。我花园的房间和长凳，它的屋顶是倾斜的，以抓住直接牧师南光之上的毗邻延伸，沐浴以前的黑暗返回在较弱的阳光。

To the existing return, is added a simple wrap of terracotta shingles and external insulation. This new sheath projects 2.5m beyond the footprint of the original return, enclosing a small 4sq. m garden room and bench, it’s roof is canted to catch the direct clerestory southern light above the adjoining extension, bathing the previously dark return in attenuated sunlight.

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在较低的工作层，一个平平的玻璃窗口，形成一个新的空间从党墙延伸到党的墙壁，超越玻璃外壳，包括画廊和内庭。

A flush glass window at the lower worktop level, forms a new space extending from party wall to party wall, beyond the glass enclosure, comprising the gallery and the inner court.

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隐蔽的厨房，面向橡木，继续进入花园房间，形成长凳和隐私屏幕毗邻的财产。

The concealed kitchen, faced in oak, continues into the garden room to form the bench and privacy screen to the adjoining property.

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然后，花园的房间被设想成一行的尽头，一个可以容纳一个熟悉的游客的空间，一个可以看到花园的空间，而不是通往花园的路线，一个名副其实的小囊，围绕着白天的一段时间，从那里可以看到花园，喝杯咖啡，或者只是看鸟。

The garden room is then conceived as end of the line, a space for one and maybe a familiar visitor, a space with a view of, rather than a route to, the garden, a veritable cul-de-sac, enclosing a moment in the day, from which to view the garden, enjoy a cup of coffee or just watch the birds.