架构师提供的文本描述。伯克利山庄的客户是一位杰出的科学家和他的妻子。他们最近从东海岸搬来，又买了我设计的另一套房子。在家里住了几年后，他们联系了我，探索他们建造自己家的灵感开始完成。我们一起寻找土地，最后他们在东湾的斜坡上买了一片风景壮观的双地块。

Text description provided by the architects. The clients for this Berkeley Hills home were a prominent scientist and his wife. They had recently moved from the east coast and purchased another home I had designed. After a few years in the home, they contacted me to explore their inspiration of building their own home start to finish. We looked for land together and eventually they purchased a double lot with spectacular views in the sloping hills of the East Bay.

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水与峡谷墙最基本的原始关系是住宅布局的隐喻性根源。水受到地形的限制，但需要一个出口。每一种物质和力量都会向对方屈服。在锌谷的每一端，在出口处，都会自然形成一个庭院，一个朝山坡，另一个朝西边，完全向海湾地区的景色和风开放。

The most basic primordial relationship of water and canyon wall was the metaphorical origin for the layout of the home. The water is constrained by the topography and yet needs an outlet. Each material and force yields to the other. At each end of our zinc canyon, at the outlets, a courtyard would naturally form, one towards the hillside and protected from the wind, the other towards the west, hanging, completely open to the views and the winds of the Bay Area.

 Main Floor Plan

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我们的概念是创造三个翅膀连接两个微风通道，一个露天微风道和一个玻璃。透明的风道使人们可以看到庭院外的景色，其低矮的屋顶线突出了主要建筑元素的聚集。设置垂直于玻璃微风通道是两个水的特点，似乎延伸到整个家庭和轴向强调的观点，旧金山湾。

Our concept was to create three wings connected by two breezeways, one open air breezeway and one glazed. The transparent breezeways allow views out of the courtyard and their low roof lines accentuate the massing of the primary building elements. Set perpendicular to the glazed breezeway are two water features that appear to extend through the home and axially emphasize the view towards San Francisco Bay. 

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断断续续的山坡末端的水轴是一个整体的室外壁炉。把房子分成三个不同的单元，我们可以建立三个不同的庭院，两个保护和一个开放给几乎不断的岸上雾和微风从旧金山湾。主住宅和客房之间的庭院有足够的保护，可以在一年中的大部分时间里舒适地在黄昏时就餐。房子的外部是由锌瓦交替包裹的，让人想起一个世纪前的工匠建筑，或者说是灰泥。我们设计了带有深屋檐和精致结构钢支撑的强烈倾斜的棚屋屋顶，为房屋提供独特的外观，并提供保护的外部循环和充足的表面积，为房屋提供动力的广泛的光伏阵列。

Punctuating the hillside end of this water axis is a monolithic outdoor fireplace. Breaking the house into three distinct units allowed us to create three distinct courtyards, two protected and one open to the almost constant onshore fog and breezes from San Francisco Bay. The courtyard between the main house and guest house is protected enough for comfortable twilight dining a good part of the year. The house’s exterior is alternately sheathed in zinc shingles, reminiscent of the craftsman architecture a century earlier, or stucco. We designed strongly canted shed roofs with deep eaves and delicate structural steel supports to give the house a distinctive look and provide protected exterior circulation and ample surface area for the extensive photo-voltaic arrays that power the house.

硬景是极简主义的，白色混凝土从房子内无缝延伸，花岗岩鹅卵石带设置到住宅结构钢框架的节奏。当你跨过第一条黑色花岗岩鹅卵石带时，房屋的建筑模块就会在街道边缘遇到。进展开始了。景观种植设置在一个严格的网格后面的低挡土墙Cor-10钢，并进一步延长了强有力的组织建筑到现场。

The hardscape is minimalist with white concrete extending seamlessly from inside the house and granite cobble bands set to the rhythm of the homes structural steel frame. The construction module of the home is literally encountered at street edge as you step across the first band of black granite cobbles. A progression begins. The landscape plantings are set on a rigorous grid behind low retaining walls of Cor-ten steel and further extend the strong organization of the building architecture onto the site.