架构师提供的文本描述。这座房子位于莱里亚市教区Pousos的“典型”周边城市化地区。它位于城市的东面，位于高地上，是莱里亚上空的一种全景观景台。

Text description provided by the architects. The house is located in a "typical" peripheral urbanization of Pousos, a parish of the municipality of Leiria. Situated east of the city and at high ground, it works as a sort of panoramic belvedere over Leiria.

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为了保证更多的空间和完全进入远处的景观，业主还购买了前面的三个地段，在“悬崖”，这是后来聚集在一个地段。虽然每个地块都允许建造一个地下室和另外两层楼，通常都是在地块中央被压实和隔离的，但这一组合让人们有可能拥有一座较低的房子，它“拥抱”了更平坦的部分，有了花园空间。

So as to assure for more space and complete access to the faraway view, the owners also bought the three lots ahead, over the "cliff", that were later gathered in a single lot. Although each lot allowed for the construction of a basement and two more stories, usually compacted and isolated in the center of the lot, this assemblage allowed the possibility of having a lower house, which "embraced" flatter portions, with garden space.

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当我们第一次去这个地方的时候，周围的街道已经建好了，而且，由于建造街道所必需的地球位移，土地突然上升，从人行道开始，就像一种具有地形性质的暗示性建筑。在周围的环境中，所有邻居的房子都已经建好了，并以“L”的形状“环绕”了这片土地。

When we went to the place the first time, the streets surrounding the lot had already been made and, because of the earth displacement necessary for the street making, the land rose suddenly, starting from the sidewalk, like a suggestive construction of a topographic nature. On the surroundings, all the neighbor houses were already built and "circled" the lot in an "L" shape.

房子的概念直接产生于我们观察这一现实的方式。为了满足当地标准，我们选择了一个大尺寸的单户住宅，我们选择将建筑体积分成两部分。一半的建筑被掩埋，就像土地的负面部分，并被认为是其中的一部分。在那半块土地上，第二个体积被放置在明显的白色混凝土中，长而扁平.在较低的体积中，位于技术区域、使用较少的区域或支持区域。在较高的空间里，社交场所聚集在一个主庭院周围，卧室围绕着私人的第二个庭院。

The conception of the house emerges directly from the way we observed this reality. Dealing with a single-family house of large dimensions for local standards, we chose to divide the construction volume in two parts. Half of the construction is buried, like a negative of the land, and assumed as being a part of it. Over that half-land, a second volume is placed, long and flattened, in apparent white concrete. In the inferior volume are located the technical areas, the less used areas or those of support. In the upper volume the socials areas gather around a main courtyard, and the bedrooms around a private second one.

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毕竟，这座房子的主要特征是其辩证特征的产生方式：地下建筑，建筑的“自然”半部，上半身，漂浮和人工的，以及两者之间的生命流动。一张脸，内向，亲密，阴影或反射光；另一张，开放，发光，透明，从那里可以享受遥远的地平线。

After all, the main characteristic of this house is the way its dialectical feature comes about: the underground, "natural" half of the building, its upper half, floating and "artificial", and the life flowing between the two. One face, introverted, intimate, of shadow or reflected light; another, open, glowing, transparent, from where it is possible to enjoy the distant horizon.

最后，与以往一样，最重要的是了解那些需要房屋设计的人的生活和个性，让他们对日常生活有一个新的意义。

In the end, all that matters, as always in this kind of project, is to understand the life and personality of those who come to us in need of a house design, and try to give them a new meaning for everyday life.