架构师提供的文本描述。在这个邀请的竞争中的客户简介是设计在现有的伦敦中央邮局顶层的两套公寓和位于伦敦维多利亚的菲利普斯·德普里艺术行动中心。客户表达了一个巨大的“阁楼”空间的愿望，以及他对当代设计和功能的渴望。保罗·麦克奈里建筑师的回答赢得了比赛的胜利，他通过许多新的细节，甚至开发了一种新型的铸木青铜材料，提出了表达自然构造的建议。

Text description provided by the architects. The clients brief in this invited competition was to design two apartments on the top floor of the existing Central London post office and Phillips de Pury art action house in Victoria, London. The client expressed a wish for large volume ‘loft’ spaces and his desire for a contemporary design and functionality. Paul McAneary Architects’ response won the competition with a proposal for expressed natural tectonics through numerous new details, and even developing a new material type of cast timber bronze.

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由于这两套公寓都建在现有的伦敦中央邮局之上，邮政投递系统一直是概念设计的灵感源泉。保罗·麦克奈里建筑师对这份简报的回应是，将“邮筒组件-概念元素”表达并放大到容纳私人项目的天然材料的大盒子中。

Since, the two apartments are built on top of the existing Central London post office, the postal delivery system has been the inspirational source of the concept design. Paul McAneary Architects responded to the brief by expressing and magnifying the ‘post box component-concept-element’ into large boxes of natural materials accommodating for the private programme.

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我们在大的双层阁楼空间里放置了三个卧室盒子，以提供住宿的房间：除了主卧室和另外两间卧室，它们还可以容纳主卧室的步入式衣柜、套间浴室和共用浴室。与更现代的家庭生活相一致，私人方案领域的规模相对较小。客户表示希望有一个大的多用途的生活空间，完美的放松和聚会，因此，客厅是宽敞的，并提供多用途的活动。

We placed three bedroom boxes within the large double height loft space, to provide rooms for sleeping accommodation: additional to the master bedroom and two further bedrooms, they accommodate for the master bedroom walk-in wardrobe, en-suite bathroom and a shared bathroom. In line with a more contemporary domesticity, the private programme area is relatively modest in size. The client expressed the desire to have a large versatile living space perfect for relaxation and parties, as a result the living area is spacious and serves multipurpose events.

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整体的建筑语言是谦逊和戏剧性的同时：混合木材构造已被应用，强调他们的纹理和内在的美。“垂直自然光”通过大天窗、走上玻璃和水平幕墙的数量，最大限度地发挥了木材天花板、橡木梁和地板以及青铜“木材纹理”的自然纹理和图案的细腻效果。

The overall architectural language is modest and dramatic at the same time: mixed timber tectonics have been applied with an emphasis on their texture and intrinsic beauty. The amount of ‘vertical natural light’ flooding through the large skylights, walk on glass and the horizontal curtain walling maximise the exquisite effect of the natural grain and pattern of the timber ceiling, oak beams and floor as well as the bronze ‘timber texture’.

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