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Liminal House, British Columbia, Canada
加拿大卑詩省 閾限之家
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麥克勞德.博維爾
McLeod Bovell
Scope|154
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麥克勞德.博維爾
McLeod Bovell
The clients came to us at a pivotal stage in their lives as soon-to-be empty nesters. The evolving needs of a family became the impetus for how we imagined a house that could embody the state of transition at a conceptual and experiential level. We chose the word liminal to encapsulate ideas that have informed the design process. The project site straddles the interstice between a suburban residential neighbourhood and West Vancouver’s natural stony seashore. Positioned on an expanded border between land and sea, the building form references the creatures that occupy this interstitial territory, whose physiology has adapted to such challenging conditions. In the same spirit, the house establishes itself in concrete, stained Accoya wood, and aluminum plate—enduring materials that can resist the battering effect of a shore environment.
不斷改變需求的家庭模式,促使設計師開始思考如何體現住宅在「概念」和「體驗」層面間過渡的動力。由於該案業主的子女將搬出住家,而夫妻兩人正處於人生關鍵階段。為此,設計團隊選擇「閾限」這個詞概括整體設計過程,考量到該宅邸橫跨於郊區住宅和西溫哥華天然石質海濱之間的間隙,因此設計師首先研究該區環境,使其建築型態能夠適應當地嚴苛條件。延續上述概念,房屋選由混凝土構築而成,並搭配耐候性高的固雅木和鋁板,以抵抗沿岸環境的波浪衝擊。
Drawing from our experience negotiating complex topography and tight proximity with neighbours, we have learned to abandon the reading of the project as a series of flat “elevations” which exists from an imaginary or inaccessible viewpoint. Instead, we embrace a scenographic approach where the house can be understood after having moved through and around it. The language of courtyards, cantilevered volumes, and extension of landscaped surfaces onto floor areas below dismantle boundaries between the house and the natural environment. The changing outdoor atmosphere at the shore not only animates the house, but is in turn animated by the house: views are framed between solid walls and walls of glass; their images duplicated by a dark pool at the edge of the property and by the glazing of internal courtyards. Reflections and refractions of the outdoors evoke a feeling of being neither here nor there, but somewhere in between.
設計師借鑒過往在複雜地形和緊密社區關係之間取得平衡的經驗,不將角度各異的立面以單一視角解讀。反之,該案藉由電影場景設計手法,讓建築從周圍望去猶如一幕幕框景。天井庭院和懸臂式量體,使戶外景觀一路延伸至地下層,消弭了建築與自然環境之間的界線。海岸不斷變換的戶外氣氛不僅讓該案顯得有生氣,反過來也賦予周遭景致活力氣息。視野被框在實體牆和玻璃牆之間,而景色從位於建築邊緣的黑色泳池和室內庭院的玻璃窗映照出來,讓人彷彿置身於室內與戶外之間。
Principal Architects:Matt McLeod.Lisa Bovell
Structural Engineering:Ennova Structural Engineering
Contractor:Hart + Tipton Construction
Character of Space:Residence
Total Floor Area:1,016 ㎡
Principal Materials:Concrete.Accoya.Glass.Metal panel
Principal Structure:Concrete.Steel
Location:British Columbia, Canada
Photos:Hufton + Crow
Text:McLeod Bovell
Interview:Angel Chi
主要建築師:馬特.麥克勞德 麗莎.博維爾
結構工程:恩諾瓦結構工程
施工單位:哈特+蒂普頓建築公司
空間性質:住宅
總建築面積:1,016平方公尺
主要材料:混凝土.固雅木.玻璃.金屬板
主要結構:混凝土.鋼材
座落位置:加拿大卑詩省
影像:Hufton + Crow
文字:麥克勞德.博維爾
採訪:紀奕安
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