Key：Metrostudio Design Research

项目概况:

The hill house is designed by Andrew Maynard Architecture andlocated in the Melbourne northern suburbs. It becomes a playful long-term homethat, like the family of five, would grow and change over the next 30 years. HillHouse is a response to this possibility. Melbourne is flat. A simulacrum ofboth an undulating landscape and the pure architectural form. The thin allotments that dominate Melbourne’s northern suburbsoften provide indomitable constraints to solar access. The site faces norththerefore relegating the backyard, the family’s primary outdoor space, toshadow throughout the year. In the 90s a two storey extension was addedreducing solar access even further while creating deep dark space within thehouse. Rather than repeating past mistakes and extending from the rearin a new configuration, the proposal was to build a new structure on the rearboundary, the southern edge of the block, upon the footprint of what had been,until now, the back yard. The new structure faces the sun, the purecantilevered box above acts as the passive solar eave, cutting out summer sun,while letting winter sun flood in. Following the decision to build at the rear of the block aubiquitous modern box was first imagined. Soon it seemed necessary to pursuethe opportunity to activate this new, once shaded, now sunny facade. A seatalong the new northern façade, a series of steps like the Scalinata dellaTrinità dei Mont and a slope instead to solve the lounge in the sun on steps.And the hill house evolved/emerged. The new structure faces the original house. The backyard is nowthe centre of the house activated by the built form around it. Beyond solargain, the benefit of the new structure being in the backyard is that it borrowslandscaping from its neighbours’gardens. The high windows about theentertainment cabinetry and the dining area are enveloped in trees. Internallyone gets the sense that Hill House is enveloped by bush rather than part of thesuburban mix. Along one boundary a 2m high fence was created, but unlike mosthouses the Hill House has a one metre wide fence; a corridor lowered into thesite to achieve head height. This in turn creates a lowered dining area. Onerises into the living space. FrontStreet no longer provides the main entry to the home. Family now enters via theside lane. The original house, now private dormitory spaces, no longer has atypical relationship to the street’s “front” door. The original house, as withmost narrow blocks throughout Melbourne, demanded that visitors walked a longcorridor past bedrooms to the living area. Stolen quick glances into darkprivate spaces always occurred along the journey. At the Hill House the entryis reorientated. The kitchen, the nerve centre, the hub of the house, is thenew greeting point. Beyond is the park. Adjacent is the living space, the yardand the "kids’ house" beyond. The old house is converted into"the kids’ house". The old house is as it once was. The rear of thesimple masonry structure, though spatially connected,is not reoriented, a face is deliberately not applied. Itis left honest and robust.