MadHouse LIONarchitecture

2016-02-13 09:00

 © John Iiams

约翰·利亚姆

架构师提供的文本描述。密苏里州位于堪萨斯城市中心附近的充满活力的西边社区内，坐落着一处陡峭、狭窄和过度生长的场地。这个地点的地形和周围的城市推动了这所房子的设计，一个四口之家。我们把这个项目叫做Madhouse。除了街道地址的名字外，路人们似乎在评论把房子放在城市悬崖边的疯狂行为。房子在淹没和浸没之间摇摆-从一端到另一端，这个地方下降了近40英尺-允许疯人院从地面延伸到近20英尺。

Text description provided by the architects. Within the vibrant West-side Neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri sits a steep, narrow, and over-grown site. The topography of the site and surrounding city drives the design of this house for a family of four. We call this project the Madhouse. Beyond merely the name of its street address, passers-by seem to comment on the madness of putting a house on the side of an urban cliff. The house oscillates between submersion and immersion - the site drops nearly forty feet from end to end - allowing the MadHouse to extend out of the ground nearly twenty feet.

 © John Iiams

约翰·利亚姆

疯人院的意义在于，它克服了工地的复杂和“不可建造”的性质，使用了很少在一栋建筑中使用的建筑技术。虽然建筑和实施复杂，但简单的设计并没有破坏周围房屋的折中风格。空气、石头和光线的使用从一开始就为设计提供了信息。房子的坚固性来源于与之交织在一起的基岩。存在于地下和树木中的二元性允许一系列被动系统。

The significance of the MadHouse is that it overcomes the complex and ‘unbuildable’ nature of the site using a combination of construction techniques rarely employed in a single building. Though complex in construction and implementation, the simple design does not buck the eclectic style of the surrounding houses. The use of air, stone, and light have informed the design since the beginning. The solidity of the house is derived from the bedrock it is intertwined with. The duality of both being in the ground and in the trees allows for an array of passive systems.

 © John Iiams

约翰·利亚姆

在疯人院的被动策略实际上是温度调节。在夏天的几个月里，树木遮住了这个地方。窗户的方向是堆叠通风-允许空气通常会通过房子通过吸热空气从北面的天窗。该计划取消了整个北墙作为公共设施核心的北玻璃窗：卫生间、壁橱和储藏室。这提供了一个三英尺的气候缓冲，消除严寒的冬季风进入房子。天窗提供额外的光线。

Passive strategies in the MadHouse are actually temperature moderators. Trees shade the site during the summer months. The windows are oriented for stacked ventilation - allowing air that would typically move over the house through to suck hot air out through north-facing skylights. The plan eliminates northern glazing along the entirety of the northern wall as a utility core: restrooms, closets and storage. This provides a three foot climate-buffer eliminating harsh winter winds from entering the house. Skylights provide additional light.

马德豪斯，没有强制空气，有一个集中的木材燃烧炉，在冬天的几个月，取暖房子使用木材从树木移走在建筑。炉子辅之以被动式系统，如南面的窗户(夏季有适当的遮阳)，通过混凝土地板进行日照。

The Madhouse, without forced air, has a centralized wood burning stove that heats the house during winter months using wood from the trees removed during construction. The stove is supplemented by passive systems, such as southern oriented windows (with proper shading in the summer), insolation via concrete floors & walls, partially submerged bedrooms, and R-40 walls and R-50 roof/floor.