架构师提供的文本描述。坐落在悉尼郊区兰德威克(Randwick)一条小巷的尽头，靠近工地，步行到库吉海滩(Coogee海滩)。1890年，两个爱尔兰铁匠(兄弟)建造了一个74平方米的简单砖块工业结构，以容纳他们的长途汽车建筑业务。

Text description provided by the architects. Tucked away at the end of a lane in the Sydney suburb of Randwick, close to The Spot and in walking distance to Coogee beach, is a 74 sqm simple brick industrial structure built in 1890 by two Irish blacksmiths (brothers) to house their coach building business.

 © Justin Alexander

贾斯汀·亚历山大

在过去的120年里，这座建筑还经营着摩托车修理厂、二手洗衣机仓库、建筑工人车间，以及最近为当地艺术家建造的工作室。在该地区长大后，其中一位业主对这座建筑了如指掌，当它于2003年上市时，他开始了信心的飞跃，投入了一个令人兴奋的项目，为开发一种更小、更可持续、更高效的生活方式提供了一个激动人心的机会，同时挑战了“ʻ更大是更好的ʼ”这一传统。

Over the past 120 years the building has also operated as a motorcycle repair shop, secondhand washing machine warehouse, a builder's workshop, and more recently a studio for local artists. Having grown up in the area, one of the owners knew the building well and when it came up for sale in 2003, took a leap of faith and invested in a project that presented an exciting opportunity to develop a smaller, sustainable and more efficient way to live, while challenging the convention that ʻbigger is betterʼ.

 © Justin Alexander

贾斯汀·亚历山大

可持续更新

Sustainable Renewal

该项目回应了城市对适应性再利用的日益增长的需求，满足了有限预算的限制，满足了业主们的长期需求，这些业主想要一套能够减少传统(昂贵/污染)能源需求的住宅-所有这些都不影响舒适或舒适的水平，实际上是在最大限度地提高隐私和更新/绿化一条被遗忘的小巷。

The project responds to the city's growing need for adaptive reuse, meets the constraints of a limited budget and addresses the long term needs of owners who wanted a home that would reduce the use of traditional (costly/polluting) energy requirements – all without compromising the level of amenity or comfort, in fact improving it, while maximizing privacy and renewing/greening a forgotten lane way.

 © Justin Alexander

贾斯汀·亚历山大

这座建筑有一个朝北的屋顶，安装了太阳能电池板来利用太阳，从北到南都有可操作的门窗，这样就不需要空调了，而混凝土地板的热质量能在较冷的几个月里保持冬天的阳光，使建筑物变暖。在南面的墙壁上安装了一排地面厨房/储藏室，以及一层的长袍/储藏室，作为相邻车道的有效绝缘体。

The building has a north-facing roof that has been set up with solar panels to harness the sun, there are operable doors and windows from north to south to allow good cross ventilation so there is no need for air conditioning, while the thermal mass of the concrete floor holds the winter sun to warm the building in the colder months. Along the southern wall a full bank of kitchen/storage on ground level, and robe/storage on the first level, has been installed as an effective insulator from the adjoining lane way.

 © Justin Alexander

贾斯汀·亚历山大