塑钢楼
PLASTIC HOUSE

◎设计公司：共和建筑

◎Design Company：Architecture Republic

◎设计师：马克西姆·拉鲁西、让-巴蒂斯特·阿斯楚克、哈维尔·布隆、约翰·卡西、马克·卡特

◎摄影师：保罗·蒂尔尼

◎Designer：Maxim Laroussi, Jean-Baptiste Astruc, Javier Buron, John Casey, Mark Carter

◎Photographer：Paul Tierney

◎面积：67m2

◎Size：67m2

空穴之中，一个新的空间悄然诞生。本案建筑如同天外飞仙般地嵌入地中而成了人居。

这所住宅位于一个平台之上，其自然切割的部分运用了十足的都柏林乔治亚时代的手法。前部是大客厅，后部是小房间，半身立于街面之上，半身位于街面以下。

本案是在拆除现有的扩充部分和内墙，把整所房子拉低一层的基础上建起的。这使整个建筑量体更加开阔，成为明亮的双高空间。

一件十字形的建筑家具运用其中，犹如一棵大树，根基扎实，姿态舒展。厨房、卫生间、储藏室和楼梯间等各功能空间位于“树桩”部位，满足着日常的生活和饮食服务需求。

上层空间是睡觉、更衣、学习的平台。空间结构有四个功能不同的分区，两个分区是全墙式衣柜，前方的分区是一张悬臂式的阅读桌，供当教师的业主使用。第四个分区延伸至整个后墙，突出外墙2 m，是一个淋浴房，釉面的天花板令人联想起乔治亚时代的经典回归。

楼下的围墙沿着其边缘设有一道壁架，形成挡土墙，与街道和邻近的房屋相向而行。它又兼作展示起居室和饭厅的书籍和手工艺品之用。当首层空间的门被打开后，就可看到花园中横亘着一道简单的抹灰墙，隐藏着一个私密的阅读空间和盥洗室。这个私密的区域通过一堵玻璃墙在视觉上延伸到房子的后部，可打开为露天沐浴遮挡。

登峰造极前，必先经历一番探索，本案亦然。在每个有利的地势上，这个空间可以看作是由原有的一个带双坡屋顶和未被改动过的开口的外壳围合而成的。整座住宅是连贯中有分化的建筑量体——只有盥洗室是完全封闭的。插入或突出的建筑结构，造就出一连串相互交错重叠的复合空间。

插入的结构由聚碳酸酯和钢材构成。这种轻型结构也是晚上灯光的主要来源——插入的设备使结构的表面呈半透明状，点亮整个空间，结构产生效果，遍布空间上下以及设备和容器之间。

A house is excavated and a space created. The insertion of an object allows inhabitation.

The house is on a terrace whose split-section is native to Georgian Dublin; a grand parlour to the front with smaller rooms to the rear is at half-levels, one up and one down from the street.

The project begins with removal - of the existing extension, internal walls and earth - bringing the entire house to lower ground-floor level. This opens the volume of the house as a double-height vessel, full of light.

A cruciform object is inserted; a piece of architectural furniture which spreads tree-like from a concentrated base. Services such as kitchen, toilet, storage and stairwell are housed within this trunk - providing for living and dining in the spaces around it.

Above this is a platform for sleeping, dressing and study spaces. The four branches of the structure hold various functions - two which span to the side walls act as wardrobes while that to the front is a cantilevered reading desk for the teacher client. The fourth branch extends through the rear wall and projects 2m beyond it housing a shower room, which is glazed to the sky, reminiscence of the traditional "Georgian return typology".

A ledge running along the perimeter wall downstairs expresses the retaining wall which was built against the street and neighbouring houses - this doubles as a shelf for the display of books and artifacts in the living and dining areas. Opening out from this ground floor is a generous garden with a simple rendered wall, which hides a secret reading room and bathing area. This private realm extends visually to the rear of the site through a glazed wall, which can be opened allowing for sheltered outdoor bathing.

First presented at the arrival platform, the house must be circumambulated before it can be fully understood. At each vantage point the space can be conceived as contained by the existing shell with its double-pitched roof and unaltered openings. The entire house is a continuous yet differentiated volume - only the washrooms are fully enclosed. A complex series of interconnected and overlapping spaces is set up by the architectural insertion and its projections.

The insertion is constructed with polycarbonate and steel. This lightweight structure is also the primary source of light in the evening - inset fittings cause its translucent surfaces to illuminate the spaces, which generate above, below and between the object and its container.