架构师提供的文本描述。客户的主要目标是推动新西兰议会的会议。客户端也是构建者，对构建的挑战很感兴趣。他的简报要求建造一座大房子，尽管这个地方很小，而且该地区的居住规则也相当严格。这导致了一座四合院的发展，压缩成了一个小场地，由三个层次组成。

Text description provided by the architects. The key ambition of the client was to push the conventions of the New Zealand house. The client was also the builder and was interested in something that was a challenge to build. His brief called for a large house, even though the site is very small and the residential rules in the area fairly severe. This led to the development of a courtyard house, compressed into the small site and composed of three levels. 

 © Paul McCredie

保罗·麦克里迪

当地的规定，促进郊区房屋的中心，是受到压力和同意的过程涉及大量的谈判。从概念上讲，这座房子是为了积极响应惠灵顿紧张的地质和审美环境而发展起来的；这座城市是由太平洋和澳大利亚构造板块交汇而形成的陡峭山丘之一，这里的建筑是垂直的和坚固的。这促使决定使用似乎受到大部队震动的重混凝土元件。

The local rules, which promote suburban houses in the middle of the site, were put under pressure and the consent process involved a great deal of negotiation. Conceptually the house developed as an active response to the taut geological and aesthetic context of Wellington; the city is amongst steep hills that are shaped by the meeting of the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates, and the architecture here is vertical and tough in response. This drove the decision to use heavy concrete elements that appear to have been jolted by large forces.

 Street level plan

街道平面图

这些混凝土屏障以各种动态的方式排列，倾斜、高架或漂浮，形成外甲壳到房子。在这里面，庭院被玻璃隔开，玻璃在混凝土屏风之间穿线。这使房屋与景观有着积极而对等的关系；房子被认为是流到场地的极限，其中的活动是单一空间的一部分。

These concrete screens are arranged in various dynamic ways; leaning, elevated or floating and form the outer carapace to the house. Within this, courtyards are separated off by glass, which threads between the concrete screens. This brings the house in active and equivalent relationship with the landscape; the house is considered to flow to the limits of the site and the activities within it are part of a single space. 

 © Paul McCredie

保罗·麦克里迪

这就形成了一种动态的社会安排，但家庭有着不同程度的隐私，以适应客户在每个地区的生活方式；从概念上讲，这是一个空间，但在强度上各不相同。这座房子是一个正在进行的研究项目的一部分，只有由于业主/建造者的热情和精力，才有可能做到这一点。该项目于2011年10月完成。

This makes for a dynamic social arrangement but the home has areas of intimacy and varying degrees of privacy to suit how the client wants to live in each area; it is conceptually one space but varies in intensity. The house is part of an ongoing research project and has only been possible due to the irrepressible enthusiasm and energy of its owner/ builder. It was completed in October 2011.

 © Paul McCredie

保罗·麦克里迪