架构师提供的文本描述。该项目位于太平洋栅栏，太平洋和圣莫尼卡山脉之间的一个丘陵地区，在一个现有的50年代的住房开发项目。该项目由位于季节性分水岭上方陡峭斜坡上的两栋房屋组成。

Text description provided by the architects. This project is located in the Pacific Palisades, a hilly region between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains within an existing 1950's housing development. The project consists of twin houses sited adjacent to each other on a steep slope above a seasonal watershed.

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C.杰森·普雷多克

在这个项目中，弗兰建筑师对探索加州两种典型建筑类型的交集感兴趣：庭院建筑和山坡建筑。这个交叉口由于两个高度包络参数的叠加而变得更加复杂，这两个参数非常明确地控制了结构的体积极限。

In this project Predock Frane Architects were interested in exploring the intersection of two classic California building typologies; the courtyard house and the hillside house. This intersection was then further complicated by the overlay of two height envelope parameters that very explicitly controlled the volumetric limits of the structures.

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C.杰森·普雷多克

该建筑项目相对于城市总津贴而言是雄心勃勃的，因此，普雷多克·费兰建筑师首先将这两个信封相交，然后用两个庭院穿透这卷书，将山坡的类型改变为山坡/庭院的混合体。

The building program was ambitious relative to total city allowances, so Predock Frane Architects started by intersecting the two envelopes, and then pierced this volume with two courtyards, altering the hillside typology into a hillside/courtyard hybrid.

 © Jason Predock

C.杰森·普雷多克

这种类型学的杂交“纠正”了山坡原型中的某些缺点。中央庭院创造了一个很大的受保护的室外居住空间，远离与相邻物业的直接接触。主庭院和相邻的庭院/凹槽穿透房屋的整个空间，形成光轴到通常被“掩埋”在山坡上的房间，并进一步扩大通往接地外部空间的直接通道。在实质上，这些房屋的外部覆盖着漆黑的木板，内部表面逐渐变成白色。

This typological hybrid 'corrected' certain shortcomings in the hillside prototype. The central courtyard creates a large protected outdoor living space secluded from direct engagement with adjacent properties. The main courtyard and adjacent courtyard/recesses pierce the entire volume of the house creating light shafts to rooms typically 'buried' in the hillside and further expanding direct access to grounded exterior spaces. Materially the exterior of the houses are clad in dark stained wood plank, transitioning to white on its interior surfaces.

 © Jason Predock

C.杰森·普雷多克