The relationship between man and nature is fundamental within the architectural discipline. In this project, a weekend house sited on the high grounds of a forest in New York’s Hudson Valley, we propose to challenge the conventional ‘man-looking-over-nature’ trope.

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By dissolving distributing the mass of the building into a loose gathering of solids and voids we create a house that is equally open in all directions and welcomes nature in. The common programs - dining, living, bedroom, study and bathroom - are separated from and connected to each other by un-enclosed courtyards. Passive cooling through cross ventilation and the shade of existing trees allows for the elimination of active cooling. The house realizes two distinct conditions: “living small” - by minimizing the construction footprint, and “living in the forest” - by creating a permeable edge between man-made and nature.

人与自然的关系在建筑学上至关重要。该项目是为平面设计大师Ivan Chermayeff (伊万•切玛耶夫) 建造一座位于纽约哈德逊河河谷森林高地上的周末休闲别墅，而我们的设计则主张挑战传统的“人造高于自然”的观念。

通过把建筑物的大型体块分解并分散排列得到不同体积的空与实，我们设计出一个向各个方向都对自然开放的别墅。餐厅、客厅、卧室、书房以及卫生间之间由封闭的庭院分离亦或连接起来。而水平通风和基地上现有树林提供的阴影也使得整个别墅不需要人工制冷。在这个别墅里我们实现了两个迥然不同的居住形式：通过最小化施工占地面积而达到的“小空间大生活”和通过筑造一个在人造与自然之间通透的边界而达到的“大树林小别墅。 ”