架构师提供的文本描述。一对有创业精神的夫妇带着5个孩子来找我们，第六个孩子在路上，还有一些宠物，帮助他们整修他们刚刚在伯克希尔一个20英亩土地上买的房子。这座建于19世纪的房子是由不同的主人以一种拼餐的方式加在一起的，其效果喜忧参半。这导致了一系列布置笨拙、互不相连的房间，这些房间非常黑暗，不适合现代家庭生活。

Text description provided by the architects. An entrepreneurial couple approached us with 5 children, a sixth on the way and a number of pets, to help them refurbish the house they had just bought on a 20-acre estate in Berkshire. The house, dating from the 19th century, had been added on to in a piece meal fashion by various owners with very mixed results. This resulted in a series of awkwardly arranged and disconnected rooms that were very dark and did not suit modern family life.

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我们的简介有两方面：第一，理顺现有房屋的内部布局，同时尽量增加花园和地面的景观；第二，增加扩展，以增加居住环境。这将平衡现有的L型方案的房子和一个额外的机翼，以包围前面的车道。

Our brief was twofold: first, to rationalise the internal layout of the existing house while maximizing the views onto the garden and grounds; and secondly to increase the living accommodation by adding an extension. This would balance the existing L-shaped plan of the house with an additional wing to enclose the front driveway.

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扩建设置在花园的较低部分，这使我们可以创造高天花板的空间，而不是增加主导的主楼。建筑物的形式是从典型的谷仓结构，可以在当地地区，以及在房地产本身。短海拔与西方红雪松条，除了固定的三角玻璃山墙在高水平。三扇垂直的条形窗户打破了车道立面上的雪松覆层，给家庭房间带来了光线，也让人们瞥见了远处的花园。

The extension is set on a lower part of the garden, which allowed us to create high ceilinged spaces, without the addition dominating the main house. The form of the building is drawn from the typical barn structures that can be found in the local area as well as on the estate itself. The short elevations are clad with western red cedar strips apart from the fixed triangular glazed gables at high level. Three vertical strip windows break up the cedar cladding on the driveway elevation, bringing light into the family room and providing glimpses to the garden beyond.

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花园的立面是从地板到天花板的大部分长度；与雪松覆盖的门，创造了进入露台和更低的花园。在内部，很长的空间在中间被一个两层高的街区隔开，里面有健身房和上面的一间办公室。一端是家庭室，另一端是一个84英寸屏幕的大电影室。延伸部分的屋顶覆盖着石板砖，以与现有的房屋相匹配；然而，它是以一种现代的方式详细描述的，因此它与玻璃和木材覆盖层形成了脆的连接。

The garden elevation is glazed from floor to ceiling for most of its length; with cedar clad doors creating access to the patio and lower garden beyond. Internally the long space is divided in the middle by a two-story block, which houses the gym and an office above. At one end is the family room and at the other a large movie room with an 84” screen. The roof of the extension is clad in slate tiles to match the existing house; however, it is detailed in a contemporary way so that it creates crisp junctions with the glazing and timber cladding.

 © Ioana Marinescu

伊亚娜·玛丽内斯库