Architects: Edmonds   Lee Architects Project: Switchback House Location: San Francisco, California, United States Area: 3800.0 ft2 Project Year 2016 Photography: Joe Fletcher

建筑师：埃德蒙兹·李建筑师项目：折叠式房屋位置：美国加州旧金山：3800.0英尺2工程2016年摄影：乔·弗莱彻

A loft-style house designed by the architects for their own family, this budget-sensitive human-scaled project wove together the architects’ deep knowledge of San Francisco’s urban context and codes with their crisp and clear material and architectural aesthetic.

这是一个由建筑师为他们自己的家庭设计的阁楼风格的房子，这个预算敏感的人性化项目将建筑师们对旧金山城市环境和代码的深刻了解与他们清晰的材料和建筑美学紧密结合在一起。

Practically, the pair, who have two children, needed (at least) three bedrooms and enough living space for their family to feel perfectly situated: close enough that their now-youngish children didn’t have to be sidelined into a basement or attic, but ultimately spacious enough that as they do grow up, they can become independent – from each other, and from their parents. Edmonds   Lee also decided to divide their building into two units, making use of Lee’s development expertise combined with Edmonds’ architectural focus. The lower floor can be—and currently is used as—an income-producing rental, but the house is designed flexibly enough that the owners can turn the structure back into a single-family home.

实际上，这对有两个孩子的夫妇需要(至少)三间卧室和足够的居住空间，让他们的家庭感觉到完美的位置：距离他们现在年轻的孩子不需要被排挤在地下室或阁楼里，但最终足够宽敞，随着他们的成长，他们可以变得独立-彼此之间，以及他们的父母。埃德蒙兹·李还决定将他们的建筑分成两个单元，利用李的开发专长，结合埃德蒙兹的建筑重点。较低的楼层可以-目前也是作为一种创收的租金-使用，但这套房子的设计非常灵活，业主可以将结构改造成一个单一的家庭住宅。

Working as not only their own clients but also their own budget-sensitive developers, the architects were able to avoid the typical market-driven pressure of maximizing square feet and instead focus on qualitative issues. As a result, they were able to work creatively—by flipping the plan to place the living room on the top floor and bedrooms on the lower level— to bring to life the feeling of loft-style living that they wanted, without giving up the intimate neighborhood feel of their immediate surroundings or the connection to San Francisco’s vibrant streets.

建筑师不仅作为他们自己的客户，而且作为他们自己的预算敏感的开发商，能够避免典型的市场驱动的压力，最大限度地扩大平方英尺，而是专注于定性问题。因此，他们能够创造性地工作--通过翻转将客厅放置在顶层的计划，将卧室放在较低的楼层---让他们想要的阁楼式生活在生活中，而不放弃他们紧邻的环境或与旧金山充满活力的街道的亲密关系。

Because much of Edmonds   Lee’s practice is centered around multifamily buildings, the architects celebrated the urban density this project brings to the street. While it can feel compelling for those who have the resources to do so to try and insulate themselves from San Francisco, to use zoning and architecture to protect themselves and their families from the possible encroachment of an ever-densifying city, Edmonds and Lee wanted to celebrate the density, while still creating an interior space that feels light, airy, spacious, and open to the sky.

由于埃德蒙兹·李的许多实践都是围绕着多家庭建筑，建筑师们庆祝了这个项目给街道带来的城市密度。对于那些有资源的人来说，尝试和隔离旧金山，利用分区和建筑来保护自己和他们的家庭免受日益密集的城市的侵袭，这是很有吸引力的，但埃德蒙兹和李想要庆祝这种密度，同时仍然创造一个感觉轻盈、通风、宽敞和对天空开放的室内空间。

Their familiarity with common architectural constraints led to innovative cost-sensitive solutions: the guardrails are simple drywall, the stair is painted steel, and much of the house’s detailing made creative use of everyday materials. The facade is built from a rhythmic display of pre-manufactured trim boards; the sinks are molded Corian; and the architects undertook the ultimate Ikea Hack: measuring the standard size of the big-box retailer’s shelving, and building closet spaces to fit to the centimeter, creating a custom millwork-level aesthetic for a fraction of the price. And that’s central to the magic of the house; it was built by people who really do live within a budget, who had a vested interested in building within that budget, who experience financial as well as design constraints, but who embraced and celebrated these limitations and used them to give rise to incredibly creative and aesthetically compelling solutions. Working on Switchback reminded Edmonds and Lee of their time at Columbia as it became almost like a school project, part unshakable rules, and equal part unshakable excitement for pushing the envelope wherever it can be furthered.

他们熟悉共同的建筑限制因素导致了对成本敏感的创新解决方案：护栏是简单的干墙，楼梯是油漆钢的，房子的许多细节都是创造性地使用日常材料。立面是由预先制作的装饰板组成的有节奏的展示；水槽是由柯里安模塑而成的；建筑师们进行了终极宜家Hack的设计：测量这家大型零售商货架的标准尺寸，并建造符合厘米的壁橱空间，为价格的一小部分创造一种定制的毫升级美感。这是这栋房子的魅力所在。它是由那些真正生活在预算范围内的人建造的，他们有兴趣在预算范围内建造房子，他们经历了财政和设计上的限制，但他们接受并庆祝了这些限制，并利用这些限制产生了令人难以置信的创造性和美学上有说服力的解决方案。在Switchback上的工作让埃德蒙兹和李想起了他们在哥伦比亚大学的时光，因为这几乎变成了一个学校的项目，部分是不可动摇的规则，同时也是一种不可动摇的兴奋。