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架构师提供的文本描述。作为一家六口之家的周末之家，Compass House的名字来源于客户想要制定一条新的路线，从在英国的长期停留过渡到在加拿大的生活。为了实现这一点，家庭的设计超越了普通的家庭节目，创造了一个精神共鸣的地方，引导和提高了一个人对周围环境的体验。通过它的位置，聚集，构造和物质，它平衡亲密和扩张，光明和黑暗，土地和天空。(鼓掌)

Text description provided by the architects. Designed as a weekend home for a family of six, Compass House takes its name from the clients’ desire to chart a new course as they transition from an extended stay in the United Kingdom to life back in Canada. To achieve this, the design of the home transcends ordinary domestic programming, creating a place of spiritual resonance that orients and heightens one’s experience of the surrounding environment. Through its siting, massing, tectonics and materiality, it balances intimacy and expansiveness, light and dark, land and sky.

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© Ben Rahn/A-Frame Studio

本·拉恩/A帧演播室

位于尼亚加拉悬崖上，指南针大厦的选址工具确立了方向。这座房子坐落在土地组成特征的交汇处：西边是森林，南边是一座小山，北边和东面有100英亩的田地。从公路上退下来，四周环绕着一丛树木，提供了防风林和一种封闭的感觉。从现有的农场小巷走过来，白色的外观有助于记录季节，在夏季的绿色田野中很明显，并融成一片冬日渐弱的白雪景观。

Located on the Niagara Escarpment, Compass House’s siting instrumentally establishes orientation. The house sits at the nexus of the land’s constituent characteristics: forests to the west, a hill to the south, and 100 acres of fields to the north and east. Set back from the road, it is surrounded by a thicket of trees to provide windbreak and a sense of enclosure. On approach from the existing farm lane, the white exterior helps register the seasons, distinct amidst the green fields of summer, and melding into a winter landscape of waning light and snow.

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