Project: Umhlanga House Architects: Bloc Architects Lead Architect: David Nelson Location: Durban, South Africa Area: 400.0 m2 Project Year 2017 Photography: Peter Oravecz

项目：Umhlanga豪斯建筑师：集团建筑师首席建筑师：大卫·纳尔逊地点：南非德班地区：2017年项目400.0平方米摄影：彼得·奥拉维茨

The Umhlanga House is an exploration into materiality, light and the integration of architecture into the landscape. Situated in an exclusive forest estate in Durban, South Africa, the forest house strives to frame the landscape with clean horizontal lines.

Umhlanga宫是对物质性、光线和建筑与景观整合的探索。该林场位于南非德班的一个专属森林庄园，它努力用干净的水平线来规划景观。

The home celebrates raw materials, which helps soften the transition between built form and the precious landscape that surrounds it. This raw materiality reinforces the honesty behind the architectural tectonics of its construction.

家庭庆祝原材料，这有助于软化过渡的建筑形式和宝贵的景观围绕着它。这种原始物质强化了建筑构造背后的诚实。

Through subtle manipulations of materials and forms we sought to alter perceptions. By chamfering brutal edges, we revealed concretes cool elegance. Concrete Frames are propped off steel columns converting heavy and cumbersome to light and agile.

通过对物质和形式的微妙操控，我们寻求改变知觉。通过倒角残酷的边缘，我们揭示了混凝土冷却优雅。混凝土框架是由钢柱支撑，将笨重和笨重的钢柱转换成轻巧的。

The pool straddles inside and out, pulling ephemeral reflections of sky and clouds deep into the house. The indigenous wild grasses on the roofs blur boundaries between the landscape and architecture. Besides adding an animated aural experience, the planting offers a more pragmatic insulating layer from the outside.

游泳池横跨内外，将短暂的天空和云彩反射到屋内深处。屋顶上的土著野草模糊了景观和建筑之间的界限。除了增加一个动画听觉体验，种植提供了一个更实用的绝缘层从外面。

Conceptually, the Umhlanga house consists of two rectangular boxes on ground (‘Service’ and ‘Storage’ boxes), on either side of the site. On top of this another box, the ‘Living’ box, bridges across the two lower boxes.

从概念上讲，Umhlanga住宅由两个矩形盒子(“服务”和“储存”箱)组成，分别位于场地的两侧。在这另一个盒子的顶部，“活生生的”盒子，跨越两个较低的盒子的桥梁。

The ‘service’ box, to the West, houses the triple garage, laundry, scullery, staff apartment, gym and office. The ‘Storage’ box to the East, houses general storage and specialized equipment. Both are clad with timber screens to ensure privacy from the open plan ‘play’ area, which sits directly under the ‘Sleeping’ box.

“服务”箱，在西方，有三个车库，洗衣房，洗衣，职员公寓，健身房和办公室。东边的“储物柜”，存放一般仓库和专用设备。这两家公司都配备了木材屏风，以确保从开放的“游戏”区域的隐私，该区域就坐落在“睡梦”框下。

These two ground floor boxes serve to provide privacy from the neighbors, and frame the prized views over the Northern landscape and distant sea views.

这两个底层的盒子提供了来自邻居的隐私，并为北方景观和遥远的海景提供了珍贵的视图。

All doors and timber screens slide away seamlessly into cavities, ensuring cavernous volumes interact directly with the landscape.

所有的门和木屏风都会无缝地滑入洞室，确保洞穴的体积与景观直接互动。

This house was designed around the sub-tropical Durban climate and the young client’s social lifestyle.

这所房子是围绕亚热带德班气候和年轻客户的社会生活方式而设计的。