美国波特兰塔式住宅丨Benjamin Waechter Architect

Tower House / Benjamin Waechter Architect

设计方：Benjamin Waechter Architect

位置：美国

分类：居住建筑

内容：实景照片

结构工程师：Munzing Structural Engineering

承包人：Prutting and Co.

图片：13张

摄影师：Lara Swimmer

这是由Benjamin Waechter Architect设计的塔式住宅。住宅架于康奈路西北的陡坡上。它轻触地面而建，而非突出于地面。该住宅可通过钢架的步行天桥进入建筑中间层，即住宅的饭厅及核心区。由于场地限制，只有局部临街面可到达住宅。

塔式住宅可看作筒状建筑表皮内悬浮着3个主要房间（客厅、饭厅和卧室）。房间高大，宽敞，采用了涂漆的白橡木板。室内布置简单而豪华。建筑外墙采用了黑色的垂直波纹钢围成一个无边角的套筒，形成连续、不间断的立面，仅有窗口和凉廊穿插处设有开口。

室内采用了蜂窝式的平面布局，以根据不同功能需求提供灵活的空间布局。联系室内外的楼梯，3英尺宽，柔和的自然光线可照入室内主要房间。厕所和浴室贴近楼梯，隐蔽而私密。

建筑时间：2013

图片来源：Lara Swimmer

译者： 艾比

Steep Slope

The Tower House is perched on a small shelf along steep topography downhill from NW Cornell Road. It touches the ground lightly and is built up rather than out. The house is accessed by a thin steel pedestrian bridge that meets the house at its mid level, the dining room and hub of the house. The site is tucked away with just enough street frontage to access the site.

The uphill side of the site is nestled into a stand of douglas fir and pine trees characteristic of nearby Forest Park. The downhill side drops off with undisturbed panoramic views of the city and mountains beyond. Like a medieval tower house, this tower house has one primary room per floor with support spaces incorporated into the building perimeter.

Three Rooms

The Tower House is conceived as 3 main rooms (LIVING, DINING and BEDROOM) floating loosely in a tubular shaped building skin or “sleeve.” These are the dominant rooms of the house. They are tall, generous volumes of space finished with oil rubbed quarter sawn white oak. They are simple, quiet rooms with a sense of luxury that comes from authenticity and craft. The white oak palate is limited to these spaces creating a strong threshold between inside the room and out, heightening ones sense of being held and contained.

Sleeve

The cladding of the house is seen as a sleeve, as if it were a stretchable garment pulled down tight over the structure. It is made of black vertical corrugated steel with rounded corners eliminating the need for corner trim. It is a continuous, uninterrupted surface punctuated only by the window openings and loggias.

In-Between

Between the 3 main rooms and the exterior sleeve of the house, the spaces take on a cellular structure, adjusting to fit functional requirements while keeping within the space provided. Stairs, bathrooms and closets are the building blocks of this interstitial space.

The stairway, with offset interior and exterior openings, acts as light loft refracting light within its 3 foot width and providing the main rooms with a soft, filtered ambient glow. Closets and bathrooms have an intimate scale with a sense of being tucked away, hidden and private.

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