Grow Box is a 1,975 sf home in Lexington, Massachusetts, designed by Merge Architects for an MIT University Professor, his wife, and their young son. The landscape surrounding the house is in pristine condition, with elaborate plantings and over 40 different varieties of Japanese maple trees painstakingly cultivated and maintained by the clients.

GrowBox是马萨诸塞州列克星敦的一座1975 SF住宅，由麻省理工学院的一位教授、他的妻子和他们的小儿子设计。房子周围的景观是原始的，精心种植的植物和40多个不同品种的日本枫树精心栽培和维护客户。

The extents of the existing gardens limited the footprint of the new house, but inspired an architecture that utilizes landscape to affect space that expands beyond the physical limits of the house. The resulting design is a compact volume penetrated by slot gardens and entry decks that both define space within the house, and erode the boundary between interior and exterior.

现有花园的范围限制了新房子的占地面积，但也启发了一种利用景观影响空间的建筑，这种空间的扩展超出了房屋的实际范围。由此产生的设计是一个紧凑的体积穿透槽花园和入口甲板，这两个德fiNe空间在房子内，并侵蚀了内部和外部的边界。

The slot recessed gardens are organized geometrically by a five foot by six foot central courtyard garden that contains a single Himalayan birch tree. This garden, which will collect rain in the summer and snow in the winter, underlines one’s experience of the elements as the literal and metaphorical centerpiece of the home. Entryways on each facade provide ready access to the yard, while copious operable windows, sliding doors, and framed views reinforce the reciprocal relationship between house and garden.

槽凹花园的几何组织由一个六英尺中央庭院花园，其中包含一棵喜马拉雅山桦树fiv脚。这座花园，夏天会下雨，冬天会下雪，突出了一个人对这些元素的体验，它是家庭的字面和隐喻的中心。每个立面上的入口都提供了通往院子的便捷通道，而丰富的可操作的窗户、滑动门和框架景观则加强了房子和花园之间的相互关系。

On the exterior, the intriguing visual contrast between the crisp geometry of the house and the sinuous landscape is both enhanced and obfuscated by the tree-trunk hue of the weathering steel panels that comprise the house cladding. Large areas of glazing surrounding the slot gardens and floor to ceiling windows reflect the surrounding trees and plantings, further blurring the distinction between architecture and nature.

在外观上，房屋的清晰几何图形和曲折的景观之间有趣的视觉对比，被构成房屋覆层的风化钢板的树干色调所增强和模糊。开槽花园周围的大面积玻璃和从fl到天花板的窗户fl等周围的树木和植物，进一步模糊了建筑和自然之间的区别。

On the interior, each room of the house is paired with at least one garden, the deep recessed rectangular proportions of which allow the clients to visually inhabit the garden while maintaining privacy from the neighboring houses and adjacent street. The house features 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, an office, and a fabrication shop in the basement.

在室内，房子的每个房间与至少一个花园成对，其中深凹的长方形比例使客户能够在视觉上居住在花园中，同时保持与邻近房屋和邻近街道的隐私。这所房子有3间卧室，2间浴室，一间办公室和地下室的一家加工厂。

建筑师：合并建筑师项目：GrowdBox Location：美国马萨诸塞州莱克星顿首席主管：Elizabeth Whittaker项目经理：Amit Oza项目设计师：艾莉森·奥斯汀设计团队：杰米·佩莱蒂埃，安妮-索菲·迪文伊，邓肯·斯科维尔结构工程师：埃文·汉金，PE钢铁制造公司，Ramos钢铁总厂总承包商EverGreen Group公司摄影公司：John Horne

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