架构师提供的文本描述。这位客户，我们之前在内华达州为他设计了一套房子，他想要一座现代化的四卧室家庭住宅，有一个宽敞的开放式起居区，使用戏剧性的海滨场地。有一项要求，就是要使这所房子的价格尽可能低。

Text description provided by the architects. The client, for whom we had previously designed a house in Nevada, wanted a modern four bedroom family house with large open plan living area, using the dramatic seaside site. There was a requirement to keep the cost of the house as low as reasonably possible.

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这座房子的设计是为了取代一处陡峭的斜坡上一片树木茂密的前滨的现有棚屋。地面条件是众所周知的不稳定的蓝色滑粘土与旋转架地下。地基需要用土钉深深地堆放和保留，一个早期的决定是为一个简单的“盒子”房子建立一个平面稳定的平台，它是在地面上的腿上升起的。这允许最简单的地下解决方案，减少房屋的面积‘触摸’地面，避免需要复杂和昂贵的多层次的房子内，同时提高它‘树屋’，就像在树木之间。

The house was designed to replace an existing shack on a steeply sloping site on a wooded foreshore. Ground conditions are notoriously unstable with blue slippery clay with rotating shelves underground. Foundations needed to be deeply piled and retained with soil nails and an early decision was to create a flat stable platform for a simple ‘box’ house raised on legs above the ground. This allowed for the simplest possible below ground solution, reduced the area of house that ‘touched’ the ground, avoided the need for complex and expensive multi level changes within the house whilst raising it ‘tree house’ like amongst the trees.

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最初设计的钢框架腿建筑太贵了，因此在30m深的桩上建造了一个紧凑的撕裂形混凝土管，30m长的耙土钉上装有公用室和淋浴房，上面放置了一个简单的钢框架两层箱。这包括一楼、入口处和卧室以及一楼的书房和客厅/厨房。

An initial design with the building on steel framed legs proved too expensive so a compact tear shaped concrete tube was created on 30m deep piles with 30m long raking soil nails containing utility room and shower room on top of which was placed a simple steel framed two storey box. This contains, on the ground floor, the entrance and the bedrooms and on the first floor, a study and the living / kitchen area.

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这座建筑覆盖着水泥颗粒板，雨幕覆层，涂上了一层船用高光泽度的搪瓷。整个建筑是在1200×1200网格上设计的。

The building is clad in cement particle board rain screen cladding painted with a marine high gloss enamel. The whole building is designed on a 1200 x 1200 x 1200 grid.

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经过长达3年的规划申请过程(包括19世纪中叶对该场地的研究和与环境署的谈判)之后，地面以下复杂的混凝土结构解决了现场实际施工问题，将建筑物与地面以下30米以下更稳定的基岩连接起来，而且难以进入。

After a protracted planning application process (3 years) involving research on the site going back to the middle of the 19th Century and negotiations with the Environment Agency the problems of physical construction on site were addressed with the complex concrete construction below ground, tying the building into the more stable bedrock 30m below ground level, and difficult access.

该建筑的设计是为了在地面上有一个尽可能小的物理足迹，并使房子本身看起来像一个简单的，抛光的黑匣子一样漂浮在树上。内部整理干净，简单，经济。由于经济上的原因，所有的玻璃都是固定的，通风和交叉通风是由一系列的楼层开口板和屋顶灯提供的。

The building is designed to have a small as possible physical footprint on the ground and for the house itself to appear to float within the trees as a simple, polished black box. Internally finishes are clean, simple and economic. For reasons of economy all glazing is fixed and ventilation and cross ventilation is provided by a series of floor level opening panels and roof lights.

该房屋的轻钢和木材两层高的“盒子”屋顶使用木材自支撑绝缘板(Sips)和包层的建筑物提供所有包围周围的树木温和的反射。建筑时间(包括地面工程)为18个月。

The lightweight steel and timber two storey ‘box’ of the house is roofed using timber self spanning insulated panels (SIPS) and the cladding to the building gives gentle reflections of all the enveloping surrounding trees. The construction time, including ground works, was 18 months.