Le Cabanon A Family Retreats Love Affair with the Tropics

2019-03-14 14:25

Blessed with an exotic setting, courtesy of a tropical lagoon on the south coast of Providenciales, an island in the Turks - Caicos archipelagos, “Le Cabanon” by Arizona-based Rick Joy Architects is a serene, family retreat that opens up to the natural beauty of its surroundings while ensuring that the occupants’ privacy is only disturbed by the coastal breeze that gently blows through the site. Designed as a discreet, low-rising ensemble of volumes of subtly textured eggshell concrete that echoes the area's limestone coastline, the house harmoniously complements the turquoise waters and lush shrubbery. Espousing a modernist sensibility of cubic volumes and minimalist aesthetic, the blocks that make up the residence cluster around a central terrace with the private quarters on the one side and the public area on the other. The house turns its back to the street, forming a continuous concrete bulwark, punctured only by few, small square windows which not only protect the interiors from prying eyes but more importantly from the sun’s binding light and solar heat, and the reason why all the large glazed openings are wisely set back into the thickness of the walls to ensure that the afternoon sun is shut out.

幸运的是，特克斯岛普罗维登夏莱斯南海岸的一个热带泻湖提供了一个异国风情的环境。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

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Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

The main living and dining area is housed in a central pavilion, which unlike the other flat-roofed blocks is crowned with a single-hip roof. Completely opening up to the main terrace on the one side and a smaller patio on the other, it effectively functions as a semi-exterior space. The lopsided roof is not merely an architectural flourish, but also serves as an open-able triangular window that induces a gentle airflow that extracts the heated air from the room. With cross-ventilation in every space, the use of thermal mass and ubiquitous solar shading, the house is passively cooled forgoing the need for air-conditioning. The house's sustainability is further enhanced by the large cistern that the architects designed beneath the main terrace to harvest water and the photovoltaic panels installed on all the flat sections of the roof.

主要的居住和就餐区位于中央展馆内，与其他平顶建筑不同的是，展馆顶上有一个单一的臀部屋顶。完全开放到主露台一边，另一边是一个较小的露台，有效地发挥了半外部空间的作用。不对称的屋顶不仅是一种建筑装饰，而且也是一个开放的三角形窗口，它可以诱导出柔和的气流，从房间里抽出加热的空气。随着交叉通风在每一个空间，使用热质量和无处不在的太阳能遮阳，房子是被动冷却，不需要空调。房子的可持续性进一步加强了建筑师设计的大型蓄水池下的主要平台，以获取水和光伏电池板安装在屋顶的所有平坦部分。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Photo by Joe Fletcher.

图片来源：JoeFletcher。

Whereas the communal spaces are fully integrated into the house’s exterior areas, the bedrooms are much more introverted and secluded spaces, eschewing sea views and large balconies for interior courtyards, small skylights and intimate peaks out onto the nature outside. Pendant lights that hang like flower buds and linen curtains gently billowing in the ocean breeze further enhance the Zen ambiance that the architects have established, creating the ideal abode where the occupants can relax after a day in the sun or a night of socializing. The interior décor combines the minimalist coolness of the exposed eggshell concrete walls and grey floor screed with the exotic warmth of mahogany featured in the doors, windows and ceilings, a combination that lyrically echoes the surrounding vegetation that adorns the sandy coves and rocky shores that stretch as far as the eye can see. It is indeed a magical landscape that the residents of “Le Cabanon” can best enjoy lounging with a glass of wine next to the terrace pool that visually segues with the azure waters of the sea.

虽然公共空间完全集成到了房屋的外部区域，但是卧室更内向和隐蔽的空间，Eshake海景和大型阳台，用于室内庭院、小天空灯光和私密的山峰。悬挂像花芽和亚麻布窗帘的吊灯在海洋微风中轻轻翻滚，进一步增强了建筑师们已经建立的禅意环境，创造了理想的住所，在阳光下一天或社交夜晚，居住者可以放松。内德林克将暴露的蛋壳混凝土墙和灰底砂浆层的极简冷却与门、窗和天花板中的桃花心木的奇异温暖结合在一起，它的组合使周围的植被与周围的植被相呼应，这些植被覆盖了沙地和岩石海岸，只要眼睛能看到。这的确是一个神奇的风景，“LeCabanon”的居民可以尽情享受在露台游泳池旁的一杯红酒，那里的酒与大海的蔚蓝的水在一起。