Highlands House安静地坐落在景观中，带着一种玩耍感和熟悉感，同时体现了自己的个性。该住宅由Other Architects设计，在一个单一的体量中提供了豪华的简单生活，允许居民享受他们的乡村生活方式的非正式和灵活性。

With a sense of playfulness and feeling of familiarity, Highlands House sits quietly in its landscape while simultaneously embodying its own character. Designed by Other Architects, the home provides the luxurious simplicity of living in a single volume, allowing the residents to enjoy the informality and flexibility of their country lifestyle.

乡村生活有一种轻松自在的感觉。时间和空间可以让人感觉更轻松，不受一天的结构或房子的功能的限制。David Neustein和Grace Mortlock，其他建筑师的总监，在Highlands住宅的设计中捕捉到了这种开放的感觉。高地住宅位于新南威尔士州南部高地，非正式而灵活，用木材细木工划分和柔软的边缘，使时间和空间感觉不匆忙。

There is a casual ease to country living. Time and space can feel more relaxed, less restrained by a defined structure of the day or functions of a house. David Neustein and Grace Mortlock, Directors of Other Architects, captured this feeling of openness and open-endedness in the design of Highlands House. Located in the New South Wales Southern Highlands, Highlands House is informal and flexible, crafted as a single volume with timber joinery divisions and soft edges, allowing time and space to feel unhurried.

该项目是一对半退休夫妇的乡村住宅，随着时间的推移，它将成为他们的永久住所。当客户购买这处房产时，它有一间三居室的小别墅和一间艺术家工作室，房子里长满了杂草和攀缘植物，挡住了海景。这对夫妇邀请了Michael Jackman来对周围地区的景观进行美化;然后他们聘请了其他建筑师设计一个房子，以支持他们放松的乡村生活方式和享受他们的新花园。

The project is the country home of a semi-retired couple – it will become their permanent residence with time. When the clients purchased the property, it had a three-bedroom cottage along with an artist’s studio, and it was overgrown with weeds and creepers that blocked the ocean view. The couple invited Michael Jackman to landscape the surrounding area; they then engaged Other Architects to design a house that supported their relaxed country lifestyle and enjoyment of their new garden.

客户想要一座乡村别墅只是为了他们自己，而不是为客人提供额外的空间。他们想要的是住在一个单间里的奢华和舒适，而且景观总是近在咫尺。建筑师们的方法是为典型的澳大利亚现代住宅提供一种不同的生活体验。它是宽松的，而不是实用主义的;它是柔软的，而不是坚硬的，它安静地坐落在背景和花园中，把前景让给人、宠物、家具、艺术和植物。

The clients sought a country house simply for themselves rather than providing extra space for guests. They wanted the luxury and ease of living in a single room, with the landscape always close at hand, the architects say. Architects approach was to offer a different experience of living in the landscape to that of the quintessential modern Australian house. It is loose-fit rather than functionalist, soft and inviting rather than hardedged, and it sits quietly in the background and the garden, ceding the foreground to people, pets, furniture, art and plants.

Highlands House建在混凝土平台上，取代了之前小屋的足迹。它的平屋顶与庭院中保留的艺术家工作室相连，而较低层的结构被重新用作客房。建筑商小心翼翼地拆除了现有的房子，以便材料可以循环利用;雪松梁在新住宅的建设中被重复使用，游廊柱现在成为景观中的台阶，碎砖形成车道。

Highlands House is built on a concrete platform that replaces the footprint of the previous cottage. Its flat roof relates to the retained artist’s studio across the courtyard, while a lower-level structure has been repurposed as a guest bedroom. The builders carefully dismantled the existing house so that materials could be recycled; the cedar beams have been reused in the construction of the new dwelling, verandah posts are now steps in the landscape and crushed brick forms the driveway.

Highlands House地势低洼，呈水平状，给人一种亭台楼阁的感觉，大型滑动玻璃门和窗户，允许自由和非正式的移动，与乡村生活相适应。紧凑而宽敞的室内空间包含起居和睡眠区域，木材细木工分隔区域，并提供温暖的内部背景。石灰华地板内外增强了室内空间流动和向外扩展的感觉。厨房、餐厅和休息室可以看到花园东面的景色，并延伸到朝北的凉廊。在书架后面，卧室朝南，通往客房顶部的弯曲露台。洗衣房和靴子房在厨房橱柜的后面，套间在房子的后角。

With its low-lying, horizontal form, Highlands House has the sense of being a pavilion, with large sliding glass doors and windows that allow for the freedom and informality of movement that goes with country living. The compact but generous interior is experienced as one space that contains living and sleeping areas, with timber joinery dividing areas and providing a warm internal backdrop. Travertine flooring inside and out enhances the sense of the interior space flowing and expanding outside. The kitchen, dining and lounge have an easterly view across the garden and spread out to the north-facing loggia. Behind the bookshelf, the bedroom faces south and opens to a curved terrace atop the guest bedroom. The laundry and boot room are behind the kitchen cabinetry, and the ensuite is in the back corner of the house.

玻璃门将室内景观打开，屋顶上的弹出式的天窗将光线带入室内。它们也为展馆的形式增添了独特的趣味性。如果它只有一个平屋顶，那将是一个简单的、实用的乡村住宅，但这些夸张的体量给人一种场合和轻浮的感觉。卧室中有一个弧形的弹出窗口，可以看到夜空和树冠，三角形的开口将北极光引入厨房和餐厅。一个烟囱状的结构在上面升起，给洗衣房通风，套间和靴子间上方有天窗。

Where the glass doors open the interior to the landscape, pop-ups and skylights in the roof bring light deep into the plan. They also add a distinctive playfulness to the pavilion form. It would have been a simple, utilitarian country house if it just had a flat roof, but these exaggerated volumes give a sense of occasion and levity. A curved popup in the bedroom provides a view of the night sky and tree canopy, and a triangular opening brings northern light over the kitchen and dining. A chimney-like form rises above and ventilates the laundry, and there are skylights over the ensuite and boot room.

Architect:OtherArchitects

Interiors:OtherArchitects

Photos:ClintonWeaver

Words:RebeccaGross

Copy:TheLocalProject