折叠式住宅 美国威斯康星州,门县半岛

Pleated House Door County,Wisconsin,America

这栋折叠式房屋是一对空巢夫妇狭小而紧凑的住所,他们在波士顿、纽约和芝加哥度过了大部分职业生涯后,决定搬回威斯康星州的门县半岛,妻子是一位卓有成就的平面设计师,在那里度过了她童年的大部分时光。该建筑须小而温馨低调,对周围森林有着真诚的敬畏。为此,我们设计了一座建筑,外观低调,静静地依偎在缓缓倾斜的场地西边的一小块空地上,低矮的轮廓几乎消失在森林茂密的植被中。这座建筑被威斯康星州北部的烧焦的雪松所覆盖,它的纹理,阴暗的黑色辅以清漆透明的雪松、深色阳极氧化铝和玻璃。与树干覆盖的树皮的视觉深度和表面振荡相呼应,烧焦的木板安装在不同深度的水垢条上,形成一个轻轻地折叠起伏的建筑表皮,就像一个褶皱的窗帘——一个蜿蜒的、高度多面的面纱,包裹着房子,用一个更模糊的边界取代原本可以是传统明确界定的边界,缓和建筑严谨的几何结构,缓和从人工建筑到自然文脉的过渡。

The Pleated House is a small,compact residence for an empty-nester couple who,after spending most of their professional lives in Boston,New York,and Chicago,decided to move back to Wisconsin’s Door County peninsula where the wife,an accomplished graphic designer,had spent most of her childhood.The program asked for a small,unassuming home,a building with an attitude of sincere diffidence to the surrounding forest.In response,we designed a building with an unassuming volume quietly nestled in a small clearing at the western edge of the gently sloping site,its low-slung silhouette virtually disappearing in the forest’s dense vegetation.The building is clad in charred cedar from Northern Wisconsin,its textured,somber blackness complemented by varnished clear cedar,dark-anodized aluminum,and glass.Echoing the visual depth and surface oscillations of bark covering the trunks of trees,the charred wood boards were installed over furring strips of varying depths to form a gently folding,undulating building skin,not unlike a pleated curtain–a meandering and highly faceted veil that wraps the house and replaces what could have been a conventional,sharply defined perimeter with a more ambiguous boundary,one that softens the building’s rigorous geometry and moderates the transition from artificial construct to natural context.