架构师提供的文本描述。主题网站坐落在布伦斯威克后街的一个角落，那里有我们选择开发的北方方向。

Text description provided by the architects. The subject site is nestled on a corner in the back streets of Brunswick that enjoys a northern orientation which we chose to exploit.

这座房子是对郊区住宅民风和影响他们的规划法律的批评和回应。努力为传统的欧洲人提供可供选择的负担得起的住房，这影响了复制品的复制，在我们的城郊景观中大量出现。在过去十年中，在我们的职业范围内讨论和辩论的一个领域。

This house is a critique and a response to the suburban housing vernacular and the planning laws that influence them. An endeavour to provide an alternative affordable housing to conventional European influenced copies of copies that proliferate throughout our sub-urban landscape. An area much discussed and debated in the last decade within our profession.

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该项目的目的不是重新参与和展示我们关于建筑和文化地域主义问题和想法的宣言；而是使用成本效益高和通用的标准化建筑方法来展示替代方案和可能性。在这种情况下，砖单板，油漆压缩板，彩色粘结屋顶和覆层，石膏板等。您所拥有的方法是至关重要的体系结构思想，是设计过程的平台。这个项目是我们办公室内一个正在进行的案例研究，我们试图消除那种只有通过庞大的预算和昂贵的建筑方法才能实现建筑理念的想法。

The aim of the project was not to re-engage and profess our manifesto on architectural and cultural regionalist issues and ideas; but mealy to demonstrate alternatives and possibilities using cost effective and generic standardised building methodologies. In this case, brick veneer, painted compressed sheet, Colorbond roofing and cladding, plasterboard etc. A make do with what you’ve have approach were critical architectural ideas are the platform for the design process. This project was an ongoing case study within our office and we seek to eliminate the idea that architectural ideas can only be achieved with big budgets and costly construction methods.

我们的反应是努力建立另一种架构，为普通家庭提供另一种语言！另一种批评空间、材料、颜色、规模、环境可持续性和城市参与的安排和秩序的言论。结果试图提出问题，而不是口授关于通用的澳大利亚众议院的答案。

Our response is an endeavour to establish an alternative architecture; another language for the average home! Another rhetoric critical of the arrangement and order of space, material, colour, scale, environmentally sustainability and urban engagement. The outcome seeks to raise questions rather than to dictate answers about the generic Australian House.

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这是一座小街区上的大房子。然而，与普通的家庭住宅相比，它是非常小的。

This is a big house on a small block. Yet it is very small in comparison to an average family house.

虽然这个建筑面积刚刚超过200平方米，但它包含了在一座占地1/4英亩的街区的常规郊区住宅中发现的所有项目；3张床房，2套接续设施和一间浴室、一间书房、两个独立的起居室、一个庭院、一个双人车库和一个“后院”。

Although the site is just over 200m2, it consists of all the programs found in a conventional sub-urban housing on a ¼ acre block; 3 bed rooms, 2 ensuites and a bath room, a study, 2 separate living zones, a court yard, a double garage and a ‘back yard’.

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这个计划是开放的，封闭的，坚实的和无效的。其设计意图是将空间划分为与独立空间相结合的灵活性，如与庭院的生活、与后院的餐饮，或作为一个大的开放的连续空间。

The plan is both open and closed, solid and void. The design intent was to compartmentalise the space with the flexibility of joining independent space such as the living with the court yard the dining with the back yard or as one big open continuos space.

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对传统的“倾斜屋顶”的正式操纵为设计反应提供了信息；从一层到一层的连续飞机从一层延伸到一层，从而放弃了每一层的两个单独的建筑单元和屋顶线。这一干预措施还使建筑物能够与突出的拐角处接触，突出了入口处和浮下管道的汇合透视图，或水的特征，从而在行人层对建筑物进行了多维解读。

The design response was informed by the formal manipulation of a traditional ‘hipped roof’; stretched from the first to ground floor on 1 continues plane thereby relinquishing 2 separate building elements and roof lines for each level. The intervention also enabled the building to engage with the prominent corner highlighting the converging perspective to the entry and floating down pipe, or water feature and resulting in a multi-dimensional reading of the building at pedestrian level.

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其结果是，一楼和一楼之间的标度和分界模糊不清。一楼和一楼从哪里开始？

The result, an ambiguity between scale and the demarcation between the ground and first floor. Where does the ground floor end and the first floor begin?

剥落的后弹出式天窗在空间难题上发出了一些光。

The peeled back pop-up skylight sheds some light on the spatial conundrum.

大公司与压缩的翘曲屋顶竞争从地面到第一层。

Bigness competes with the compressing warped roof to negotiate access from ground to first floor.

房子探索的物理和空间限制郊区建筑作为一种话语，而不是限制，屋顶是主要的要素雕刻的强制性‘设置图’由当地的规划政策。一种由文字构成的背靠背图，翻译成屋顶形式。我们的实践采用了一种哲学，即任何形式的约束都可能得到体现；预算、规划政策、语境是设计过程的一部分，可以作为讨论的一部分，我们寻求作为决议的批判性建筑理念。

The house explores the physical and spatial constraints of suburban building as a discourse rather than a limitation with the roof being the predominate element sculptured by the mandatory ‘set back diagram’ dictated by local planning policies. A set back diagram literarily constructed, translated into the roof form. Our practice adopts the philosophy that constraints in what ever form they may be manifested; budgets, planning policies, contextual are part of the design process and can be used as part of the discourse and we seek for the critical architectural ideas as resolutions.

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空间和计划一样重要，就像两个人竞争一样，而形式决定了功能。北方的定位使我们能够通过被动设计来整合环境的可持续性，并利用倾斜屋顶作为一种通过天灯和双折叠门进行交叉通风的方法。

The space is as much about section as it is about plan as the two compete, whilst form dictates function. The northern orientation enabled us to integrate environmental sustainability through passive design and utilized the sloping roof as a method cross ventilating through the sky light and bi fold doors.

房子融入了重要的古典思想作为建筑技术，而不是复制的美学，通过移情点与汇合屋顶和篱笆线。一个双高的入口，一个引人注目的楼梯突出了入口门厅。

The house incorporates important classical ideas as architectonic techniques instead of replicating the aesthetic by empathizing the point of entry with the converging roof ad fence lines. A double heighten entry, a dramatic staircase highlight the entry foyer.