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架构师提供的文本描述。Thorold Active House旨在突破加拿大绿色住宅开发的界限，满足现行的活动房屋标准：确保高能效、舒适健康的室内环境，以及充满丰富自然光线和空气的令人振奋的空间。

Text description provided by the architects. The Thorold Active House is designed to push the boundaries of green Canadian residential development, by meeting the current Active House standards: ensuring high energy efficiency, a comfortable and healthy indoor environment, and an uplifting space filled with an abundance of natural light and air.

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活动屋是丹麦的一个指标，它强调能源效率、低环境影响和优良的室内环境质量。这座住宅位于安大略省南部的一处住宅开发项目中，由加拿大最大的房屋建筑商之一大海湾(Great Bay)建造，旨在将这座独栋住宅的期望从传统设计和“豪华”装修中转移开来，因为这两种设计都无助于人类健康和环境健康。

The Active House is a Danish metric that emphasizes energy efficiency, low environmental impact, and superior indoor environmental quality. Located in a residential development in Southern Ontario, the house – built by Great Gulf, one of Canada’s largest home builders - aims to shift the expectations of the single-family home away from traditional design and ‘luxury’ finishes, neither of which contributes to human or environmental health.

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房子的质量方面由自然日光和通风所引导，以及它们如何从根本上改变房子的感觉。不寻常的建筑房屋，索洛德活跃的房子有一个开放的横轴平面与一系列可操作的屋顶天窗和窗户，使房子充满充足的日光，很少或根本不需要人工照明在白天。天窗和窗户的设计同样能提供自然通风。房子后面的全宽甲板加强了从室内到室外的视觉无缝过渡，并鼓励住户保持滑动的玻璃甲板门打开。

The qualitative aspects of the house are guided by natural daylight and ventilation and how they can fundamentally change the feeling of a house. Unusual for a builder home, the Thorold Active House has an open cross-axial plan with a series of operable roof skylights and windows that suffuse the house with sufficient daylight that little to no artificial lighting is needed during the day. The skylights and windows are equally designed to provide natural ventilation. A full width deck at the rear of the house reinforces a visually seamless transition from the indoors-out, and encourages the occupants to keep the sliding glass deck doors open.

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利用传统门式房屋顶设计的现有地方设计准则，并对其进行改造，产生了一种多功能设计，这是开放式方案、充足的室内日光和优越的环境性能的基础。房子的比例和聚集来源于设计准则，确保房子自然地坐落在更传统的邻居旁边。

Using the existing local design guidelines of a traditional gabled roof design and adapting them for the House yielded a multi-functional design that was the basis for an open plan, an abundance of interior daylight, and a house of superior environmental performance. The proportions and massing of the House are derived from the design guidelines ensuring that House sits naturally beside its more traditional neighbors.

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Sustainability

住宅的热环境设计是为了优化舒适性和效率，采用分区采暖、HRVS和高效炉子。该设计最大限度地增加太阳能在冬季通过南面玻璃。悬垂和可操作的阴影有助于保持房子凉爽的夏天。一个高度绝缘的建筑围护结构和一个家庭自动化系统将电动遮阳、照明控制、天窗和窗户与暖气/冷却系统结合起来，以帮助确保房屋尽可能高效地运作。

The thermal environment of the house was designed to optimize comfort and efficiency using zoned heating, HRVs and a high efficiency furnace. The design maximizes solar heat gain in the winter through south facing glazing. Overhangs and operable shades help keep the house cool in the summer. A heavily insulated building envelope and a home automation system integrates motorized shades, lighting controls, skylights and windows with the heating/cooling system to help ensure that the house operates as efficiently as possible.

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安装了一个蓄水池和雨水收集系统，以减少在花园中使用市政用水和冲洗厕所。太阳能家用热水系统和排水热水回收进一步有助于减少房屋对环境的影响。

A cistern and rain water collection system was installed to reduce the use of municipal water in the garden and to flush the toilets. A solar domestic hot water system and drain water heat recovery further contribute to reducing the house’s environmental impact.

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从一开始，房子就被设计成一个预制的嵌板木结构，既减少了建筑浪费，又减少了现场施工的长度。工厂建造了墙板、地板和屋顶板，并用卡车将其平装起来，运至现场。这所房子的整个框架是在几天内建成的。

From the outset the house was designed as a prefabricated panelized wood structure, to both reduce construction waste and the length of onsite construction. Wall, floor and roof panels were factory built, flat packed and brought by truck to the site. The entire framing of the house was erected in just a few days.

好生意

Good business

作为美国最大的住宅建筑商之一，伟大海湾公司同时关心的是成为一家创新的、具有前瞻性的公司，同时也是一家在住宅市场中有效竞争的公司。这个项目是信心的飞跃，因为到目前为止还没有对可持续性表现出任何特别的兴趣。这在很大程度上也是一个学习过程，一个围绕实现设计和工艺效率的激励过程，以便公司能够继续建造下一个版本的房子，该版本将于2014年2月开始设计。

Great Gulf, as one of the country’s largest home builders, is simultaneously concerned with being an innovative, forward-thinking company, and a company that competes effectively within the residential market. This project was a leap of faith, in a market that has not to date shown any particular interest in sustainability. It was also very much a learning process, one that has galvanized around achieving design and process efficiency so that the company can move forward building the next version of the house, which is slated to begin design in February 2014.

Thorold Active House是加拿大住宅开发的分水岭，它同时推动了每年在加拿大建造的数千栋新住宅的可持续和现代设计的界限。

The Thorold Active House is a watershed in Canadian residential development, one that simultaneously pushes the boundaries of sustainable and modern design for the thousands of new homes built in this country every year.

Architects Superkül inc

Location Thorold, Canada

Category Houses

Architects in Charge Andre D’Elia, Meg Graham

Project Architect Wendy Wisbrun

Area 3290.0 ft2

Project Year 2013

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