架构师提供的文本描述。布莱登豪斯坐落在一个戏剧性的高架地点与壮观的山景。它的目的是提供一个封闭的撤退，并开发它的北部方面和昆士兰州北部的阳光海岸腹地在威塔，澳大利亚。这所房子是通过一片稠密的亚热带雨林靠近的，这片森林向房子所在的一小片空地开放。这位客户是一位热爱书籍和大量艺术收藏的单身女性，她要求的目标和规模相对较小。

Text description provided by the architects. Bryden House is located on a dramatic elevated site with spectacular mountain views. It is designed to provide both a hermetic retreat and to exploit its northern aspect and prospect in the northern part of Queensland's Sunshine Coast Hinterland in Witta, Australia. The house is approached through a dense sub-tropical rainforest which opens to a small clearing where the house is located. The client, a single woman with a passion for books and a significant art collection requested something relatively modest in ambition and scale. 

 © Christopher Frederick Jones

克里斯托弗·弗雷德里克·琼斯

最低限度的手段和对低维护的关注也影响了轻金属包层展馆的概念，轻定位在现场，并安排在计划和部分集中具体的意见。完成和详细是简单和经济，允许一个背景的艺术和前景的看法。作为一个沉思的地方，艺术和文学，偶尔客人娱乐，这座小房子是为了满足这些不同的需求，在一个舒适和高度共振的关系，这个特殊的地点。

Minimal means and a concern for low maintenance also influenced the concept for a lightweight metal clad pavilion, lightly positioned on the site and arranged in plan and section to focus specific views. Finishes and detailing are simple and economical, allowing a backdrop for art and a foreground for views. As a place for contemplation of nature, art and literature and occasional guest entertainment, this small house is intended to accommodate those varying demands in a comfortable and highly resonant relationship with this special site.

 © Christopher Frederick Jones

克里斯托弗·弗雷德里克·琼斯

从项目开始时，在访问网站时，首先与客户进行讨论，包括客户购买该网站的原因，以整体方式进行可持续性一直是房屋开发的一个固有部分。近年来，原有的亚热带雨林的残馀部分得到了进一步的补充，在该地区发现了新的本土树种种植，作为进一步种植热带雨林的雄心的一部分。

From the start of this project, upon visiting the site, first discussions with the client and including the reasons that the client purchased the site, sustainability in a holistic manner has been an inherent part of the house’s development. In recent years, the remnant part of the original sub-tropical rainforest has been further supplemented by new tree planting of indigenous species found in the area as part of the ambition to grow the rainforest further. 

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这包括在当地和知识渊博的植树人的帮助下种植稀有物种，其中一些濒临灭绝。尽管理事会制定了植物保护条例，规定在房屋附近清理50米，但该房屋的位置是为了保护现有树木的最大数量，并造成最少数量的损失。尽管如此，今后的种植仍将恢复这种种植。

This has included the planting of rare species, some endangered with the assistance of a local and knowledgeable arborist. Notwithstanding Council’s plant protection regulations for clearing of 50 metres within the vicinity of the house the house’s location has been situated to protect the maximum number of existing trees and incur the loss of a minimal number. Future planting will see the reinstatement of this planting nonetheless.

作为尽量减少对场地的干扰和最大限度地利用生物多样性的方法之一，房子一直保持在单一的水平上，通常是较深的颜色，以尽量减少对眼前和更大景观的视觉影响，并在自然地面水平之上的最低高度高架，小规模挖掘只是为了容纳车辆通道和车库下面的蓄水。

As part of the approach of minimising disturbance on the site and to maximise biodiversity, the house has been kept to a single level, generally a darker colour to minimise visual impact on the immediate and larger landscape and elevated at a minimum height above the natural ground levels with minor bulk excavation only to accommodate vehicular access and water storage below the garage.

 © Christopher Frederick Jones

克里斯托弗·弗雷德里克·琼斯

该项目更大的可持续设计方法是基于大量举措的累积效应，而不是侧重于所谓的主要举措。独立供水，在车库地板下提供40 000升储水，包括屋顶集水、可渗透车道和道路、现场生物处理有机废物处理系统、太阳能光伏电池板回到电网，以取得总体积极的能源效果，在所有结构框架到地板、墙壁和屋顶以及所有细木工和地板的所有结构框架中使用人工林木材，良好的北、南方向被动式太阳能设计，尽量减少对东西向的暴露，冬季采用管道换热的慢速燃烧炉，低能的照明配件和设备，低用水的液压系统和水龙头，低VOC漆面。尽量减少外部油漆和使用前完成金属，以尽量减少未来的维护要求和使用太阳能玻璃，以尽量减少热量。房子没有空调，主要依靠高质量的交叉通风在夏季冷却。

The larger sustainable design approach for the project has been based on the accumulated effect of a large number of initiatives rather than focusing on so called major initiatives. Independent water supply by provision of 40,000 litres of storage under the garage floor from roof water harvesting, permeable driveway and pathways, Biolytix organic waste treatment system on site, photovoltaic panels for solar power generated back into the grid for an overall positive energy outcome, use of plantation timbers throughout for all structural framing to floors, walls and roof as well as all joinery and floors, good passive solar design for principle north and south orientations minimising exposure to east and west elevations, slow combustion stove with ducted heat transfer for heating in winter, low energy light fittings and appliances throughout, low water use hydraulic systems and taps throughout, low VOC paint finishes throughout, minimal external painting and use of pre-finished metal to the exterior minimising future maintenance requirements and use of solar glazing to minimise heat gain. The house is not air-conditioned and principally relies on high quality cross ventilation for cooling in the summer months.