Architects: El Dorado Project: Shelton house Principal in Charge: Josh Shelton Project Manager: Steve Salzer Area 275 sqm Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States Photography: Mike Sinclair

建筑师：El Dorado项目：谢尔顿住宅主管：Josh Shelton项目经理：Steve Salzer面积275平方米，地址：密苏里州堪萨斯城，美国摄影：Mike Sinclai

The Shelton house is an urban home for a family of four built in the Westside neighborhood of downtown Kansas City. With a main structure consisting of just under 2,000 square feet, the house makes a compelling argument for quality over quantity within the context of a downtown neighborhood that is striving for increased urban vibrancy.

谢尔顿住宅是一个四口之家的城市住宅，建在堪萨斯城市中心的西区社区。这座房子的主建筑面积略低于2000平方英尺，在一个城市中心区的环境下，它提出了质量高于数量的令人信服的论点，该社区正在努力增加城市的活力。

The layout of the residence is a “U” shaped plan, organized around an entry courtyard to the east and a shaded full-length porch to the west. While the entry courtyard dips 6’-0” below the back-yard grade, the front porch floats dramatically in the trees, over 20’-0” above Madison Avenue. Large sliding glass and screen doors connect the kitchen, dining room and the living room to the courtyard and the porch, and provide the entire house with sufficient cross ventilation to enjoy summer breezes during evening hours. The house leverages natural daylighting to provide 100% of its daytime illumination, and utilizes dimmable fluorescent cove lighting and limited recessed halogen fixtures for nighttime illumination.

该住宅的布局是一个“U”形的平面，组织在一个入口庭院的东部和一个阴影的全长门廊在西方。当入口庭院在后院的下面倾斜6‘-0“时，前廊在树林中戏剧性地飘浮，超过20’-0”在麦迪逊大道之上。大滑动玻璃门和屏风门将厨房、餐厅和客厅连接到庭院和门廊，并为整个房子提供充足的交叉通风，以便在晚上享受夏日微风。该房子利用自然采光，提供100%的白天照明，并利用可调荧光小湾照明和有限凹进卤素灯固定装置用于夜间照明。

The master bedroom and bathroom suite is scaled appropriately for an urban residence, and opens up to the front porch to enjoy the quiet Westside nights. The kids’ bedrooms are designed for flexible configurations, opening up to one another and the entry courtyard as a single bedroom suite, if desired. Hand-crafted loft beds organize functional closet space and homework stations below.

主卧室和浴室套房适合于城市住宅，并向前廊开放，享受宁静的西区之夜。孩子们的卧室是为灵活的配置而设计的，彼此开放，如果愿意的话，进入庭院作为一个单卧室套房。手工制作的阁楼床在下面组织实用的壁橱空间和家庭作业站。

The unique site section of the Shelton house renders its interior as an urban sanctuary; a place of quiet domestic reflection within a gritty, urban neighborhood.

谢尔顿住宅独特的遗址部分把它的内部变成了一个城市避难所；一个安静的家庭倒影的地方，在一个坚如磐石的城市社区内。

Tucked in below on one side, and hovering above on the other, the transparent qualities of interior spaces and exterior courtyards open up generously to one another within a cedar clad structure that carefully edits the surrounding exterior environment, distilling the sounds of trains and prevailing breezes through sliding glass walls and dappled western sunsets through adjacent deciduous tree limbs. Upon approach from the alley, however, the house is largely invisible: the public spaces of the house unfold step by step, poetically suspended between the ground below and the transplanted prairie ecosystem on the roof.

内部空间和外部庭院的透明特性，夹在一边的下面，在一边盘旋，在一个雪松覆盖的建筑里慷慨地向对方敞开，精心编辑周围的外部环境，通过滑动的玻璃墙提炼火车的声音和盛行的微风，在相邻的落叶树干上点缀西方的日落。然而，从小巷走过来，房子基本上是看不见的：房子的公共空间一步地展开，诗意地悬挂在下面的地面和屋顶上移植的草原生态系统之间。

The Shelton house is ultimately a careful study of site section, nestled tightly into the site on one hand, and floating effortlessly above the site on the other. It celebrates quiet intimacy of family life by contributing a quiet, unassuming and unexpected presence to the intimate context of its surrounding neighborhood.

谢尔顿的房子最终是对遗址部分的仔细研究，一方面紧紧地依偎在工地上，另一方面毫不费力地漂浮在场地上方。它庆祝安静的家庭生活亲密无间，贡献了一个安静，谦逊和意想不到的存在，以亲密的环境，其周围的邻居。