True to its name, the House in the Orchard, located in San Miniatio, Italy, actually sits nestled amidst the trees in a real orchard! Design teams at LDA.iMdA architetti associati built the little home to explore space, shape, and natural context in unique, minimalist, and efficient ways.

名副其实的是，位于意大利圣米尼亚肖的果园里的房子，实际上就坐落在一个真正的果园的树木中间！LDA.iMdA Architetti Associati的设计团队以独特、极简和有效的方式建造了这个小家，以探索空间、形状和自然环境。

Although the building is, indeed, a private home, certain aspects of its structure are built to mimic more public spaces’ function and shape, like its focus on open concept layouts and its transparent walled ends that create a visual blending of indoor and outdoor space, creating a feeling of increased square footage despite its actual modest but efficient size.

尽管这座建筑的确是一座私人住宅，但其建筑结构的某些方面是为了模仿更多公共空间的功能和形状，比如它专注于开放的概念布局和透明的围墙末端，创造了室内和室外空间的视觉融合，尽管它的面积实际上很小，但效率却有所提高。

Speaking of efficiency, the actual systems used to power the house and make it run are highly efficient as well! This includes the hydro, the heating and cooling mechanisms, and even the home’s facade. The external coating around the whole house, which gives it quite a monolithic look, creating stunning continuity, was made by covering a wooden frame in an ecologically protective polyolefin sheet, which has a high solar reflectance, preventing the interior from becoming overheated.

说到效率，用于为房屋供电并使其运行的实际系统也是高效率的！这包括水电，加热和冷却机制，甚至家庭的正面。整个房子周围的外部涂层，使它看起来相当整体，创造了惊人的连续性，是通过在一个具有生态保护作用的聚烯烃薄片中覆盖一个木框制成的，它具有很高的太阳反射率，防止内部过热。

The shape and structure of the house actually inspired by that of a classic greenhouse meant for plants, but wildly re-imagined and invigorated. As you might know if you’ve ever worked with plants, the average greenhouse (exception those used on high production farms and so on) is not a place fit for anything but a plant to inhabit. Here, however, the shape, level of natural light reaching the interiors, and temperature control technology has been updated and adapted for actual living in a permanent home.

这座房子的形状和结构实际上是受传统温室的启发，它是为植物而设计的，但却被重新想象和充满活力。正如你可能知道的，如果你曾经和植物一起工作过，一般的温室(生产量高的农场等的温室除外)不是一个适合居住的地方，只是一个植物栖息的地方。然而，在这里，到达室内的自然光的形状、水平和温度控制技术已经得到更新，并适应于长期居住在家中的实际生活。

The exterior of the house isn’t the only space that got a little bit innovative and green with its materiality. Designers ensured that the home’s interior followed suit as well! For example, the flooring of the main room is covered in a material that uses anti-infiltration, water resistant protective products to coat a prefabricated wooden floor. This is great for improving insulation and energy emissions and conservation. The floor is also built from “self-supporting” panels, making it sturdy and resistant to weathering or wear and tear; it is layered with larch wood, polystirene, and then fir wood.

房子的外观并不是唯一有一点创新和绿色的空间，因为它的物质性。设计师确保家里的内部也跟着做！例如，主房间的地板上覆盖着一种材料，这种材料使用防渗透、防水的防护产品来覆盖预制木地板。这是伟大的改善绝缘和能源排放和保护。地板也是由“自给”面板建造的，它坚固耐用，抗风化、耐磨损；它是用落叶松木、聚丁烯、然后是杉木制成的。

The emphasis on plant life that surrounds and inspires this home doesn’t stop at its shape and location. Designers also wanted to integrate and enable the dweller’s favourite hobby as best they could. You see, the owner absolutely adores vegetable gardening! This is part of the reason the house was kept modest in size and green in function; they wished to make the most of the available plot as far as gardening space was concerned.

围绕和激励这个家的植物生命的强调并不仅仅停留在它的形状和位置上。设计师们也希望尽可能地整合和促进居民最喜欢的爱好。你看，主人绝对喜欢蔬菜园艺！这也是为什么这所房子的面积和功能都很小的原因之一；他们希望在园艺空间方面充分利用现有的地块。

The emphasis on smalltime agriculture and modern home technology creates a beautifully blended home experience both within and directly surrounding the house itself. The whole place has a sense of green prioritization, as well as a strong relationship between energy conservation and natural production.

强调小规模农业和现代家庭技术创造了一个美丽的混合家庭体验，无论是在内部和直接围绕着房子本身。整个地方都有一种绿色优先次序的感觉，以及节能和自然生产之间的紧密关系。

Originally, designers briefly considered a much larger design that would have included an extra interior gardening space that was intended as a winter gardening plot or greenhouse. Upon reflection, however, they opted to create just the little house you see here, basing it in part on classic children’s drawings of houses in its bare shape. Cutting out the additional building process and square footage stopped the structure itself from leaving too big a footprint on the land. After all, clearing natural land to create indoor spaces for gardening, instead of just gardening the land, seemed counterintuitive on this small scale.

最初，设计师们简单地考虑了一个更大的设计，它将包括一个额外的室内园艺空间，该空间被设计为一个冬季园艺地块或温室。然而，在反思之后，他们选择仅仅创造你在这里所看到的小房子，把它作为典型的儿童画的一部分，在其裸露的形状上。削减额外的建筑过程和方形镜头，阻止了结构本身在陆地上留下太大的足迹。毕竟，清除自然土地，为园艺创造了室内空间，而不是仅仅是园艺的土地，在这个小尺度上似乎是反直觉的。

Speaking of reducing impact on the land, designers found another way to make this happen physically as well! Instead of building the house so its entire ground floor lays flush on top of the earth beneath it, building teams created a raised frame in which the house appears to sit on solid, strong stilts. This allows natural growth right underneath and minimized the amount of clearing that had to be done in order to erect the building.

在谈到减少对土地的影响时，设计师们还发现了另一种方式，使这一点在物理上也是如此。建筑团队代替建造房屋，使其整个地面铺设在其下方的地球的顶部，建筑团队创造了一个升起的框架，在该框架中，房屋似乎坐落在坚实的、坚固的高跷上。这允许在下面的自然生长，并且最小化必须进行的清除量，以建立建筑物。

Over all, the house exists as an example of the design team’s ongoing study and prioritization of the way that architecture can build and maintain relationships with the land, as well as how fluid combinations of modern technology and the natural world can benefit home and societal experiences.

总之，这栋房子的存在是设计团队不断研究和确定建筑如何与土地建立和维持关系的一个例子，以及现代技术和自然世界的流体组合如何有益于家庭和社会经验。

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