架构师提供的文本描述。什么使房子舒服？这是沙发的衬垫水平，还是气候和身体的舒适性，与自然相结合的建筑所允许的？Elamang是一个试图达到上述最高水平的“舒适”的房子，同时产生最小的环境影响。

Text description provided by the architects. What makes a house comfortable? Is it the level of padding in the couches or the climatic and physical comfort that architecture, integrated with nature, allows? Elamang is a house that attempted the highest level of “comfort” as described above, whilst producing the smallest environmental impact.

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夯土墙脊是在这所房子中开发的被动热系统，以保护免受极端气候的影响。脊柱连接着南侧的各个层次的长步道。

A rammed earth wall spine is the passive thermal system developed in this house to provide protection from climatic extremes. The spine links all levels of the long stepping dwelling on its south side.

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该计划还旨在将现有住宅改造成更现代的房子，并将其与埃拉芒大道上的一个新车库结构连接起来。房子的设计使用旧足迹的清晰度，增加和车库体积，形成三个美化庭院和花园。

The scheme also aimed to morph the existing dwelling into a more contemporary house and to link it to a new garage structure on Elamang Avenue. The design of the house uses the articulation of the old footprint, the additions and the garage volumes to form three landscaped courtyards and gardens.

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光伏发电产生了相当多的住宅能源，太阳能热水装置也是如此。房子的肠子里装着14300升的水箱，就像骆驼一样，它能以极小的水和能量度过高温和干旱。

Photovoltaics produce a considerable amount of the dwellings energy, as does a solar hot water installation. The bowels of the house contain 14300 litres of water tanks and, much like a camel it can survive heat and drought with minimal water and energy consumption.

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该项目成功地成为我们旨在将高质量的住宅设计与高水平的环境可持续性结合起来的试验场。

The project succeeded as a testing ground for our aim to combine a high quality of residential design with a high level of environmental sustainability.

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