架构师提供的文本描述。Meadowview位于贝德福德郡一个乡村的边缘，是为一对退休夫妇设计的家庭之家。这块地被树篱和成熟的树木所包围，与大片的可耕地接壤。该网站已被划分为不同的区域，通过房屋和硬景观，建立了一个相互作用的建筑，花园和遥远的景观。

Text description provided by the architects. Meadowview is situated on the edge of a rural village in Bedfordshire and was designed as a family home for a retired couple. The plot, enclosed by hedgerows and mature trees, borders onto an expanse of arable fields.  The site has been divided into different areas by the house and hard landscaping, setting up an interplay between the building, gardens and distant landscape.

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周围的农业景观和乡土建筑的抽象性质为设计提供了依据，从而形成了一种简单的线性形式和水平强调形式的房屋。高度的微小差异使你在平面景观中所能看到的东西有了很大的不同，所以三个基座被敲打在现场，用板岩、白光渲染和木材覆盖来标记观看平台。

The abstract nature of the surrounding agricultural landscape and vernacular buildings has informed the design, resulting in a house with a simple linear form with a horizontal emphasis.  Small differences in height make a big difference to what you can see in a flat landscape so three datums were struck across the site expressed in bands of slate, white render and timber cladding to mark the viewing platforms.

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在底层，玻璃区域与花园建立了密切的、感官的关系，而第一层则提供了一种更独立的景观体验，其长景就像墙上的图画一样。

On the ground floor, areas of glazing set up close, sensual relationships with the garden whilst the first floor offers a more detached experience of the landscape with long views framed like pictures on the wall.

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甜栗子包衣盒悬在一楼，这样，从田野的另一头看，它就像漂浮在树篱上一样。深凹阳台的作用就像一个镜头罩，框架夕阳西下的农村。悬停建筑的概念继续深入到灰烬踏板楼梯的细节，这是悬臂墙在入口大厅。木材箱的轻盈与环绕私人围墙的重铁石辉长石墙并置。

The sweet chestnut clad box overhangs the ground floor so that from across the fields it looks like it is floating over the hedgerows.  The deep recessed balcony acts like a lens hood, framing sunsets over the countryside. The concept of a hovering building is continued into the details of the ash tread stair that is cantilevered off the wall in the entrance hall. The lightness of the timber box is juxtaposed with the heavy ironstone gabion wall that encloses the private walled garden.

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一条蜿蜒的路线穿过房子，创造了一系列逐渐变得更加私密的内部和外部空间。入口大厅让游客直接从房子里看到后花园里的亭子，同时屏蔽了客厅。当你穿过一楼的时候，空间扩展成一个双高的起居室，这是一楼的研究所忽略的。从客厅，你可以进入庭院花园，在那里更精致的植物可以生长，保护免受风和寒冷。在房子的后面，一片长长的草和草地的花朵被微风吹动，给人一种码头般的感觉。花园的一片区域被分配给在凸起的床上生产食物，在夏天的几个月里提供家里所有的水果和蔬菜。

A meandering route through the house creates a sequence of gradually more private internal and external spaces.  The entrance hall offers visitors views straight through the house to the pavilion in the back garden whilst screening off the living areas.  As you progress though the ground floor, the space expands into a double height living room that is overlooked by the first floor study.  From the living room, you can gain access to the courtyard garden where more delicate plants can grow protected from the wind and cold.  To the rear of the house, swathes of long grasses and meadow flowers are animated by the breeze giving the terrace a wharf-like feel.  An area of the garden is given over to food production in raised beds, providing all of the household’s fruit and veg over the summer months.

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房子是很好的绝缘，安装了光伏板，还结合了机械通风和热回收，以减少热量损失，而雨水收集罐提供水的WC和花园灌溉系统。

The house is well insulated, fitted with photovoltaic panles and also incorporates mechanical ventilation with heat recovery to reduce heat losses whilst a rainwater harvesting tank supplies water to the WC’s and the garden irrigation system.