Whidbey Uparati House/维特曼·埃斯蒂斯

Whidbey Uparati House/维特曼·埃斯蒂斯
Whidbey Uparati House / Wittman Estes

项目与环境的和谐统一：Whidbey Uparati House最引人注目的特质在于其与自然环境的完美融合。建筑师通过将房屋“融入场地”而非“凌驾于场地之上”，实现了对自然景观的最小化视觉和物理影响。蜿蜒的小路穿过草地植被，引导人们缓缓走向建筑，这种设计不仅创造了独特的体验，也强化了人与自然的联系。房屋的选址位于地块的最高点，最大限度地利用了周围的景观优势，可以俯瞰无用湾和奥林匹克山脉的壮丽景色。整体设计体现了对环境的尊重，并通过建筑语言实现了人与自然的和谐共生。

空间与材料的极简主义表达：该项目在空间设计和材料选择上都体现出极简主义的精髓。室内空间以简单木材细节为基础，如胶合板墙、雪松天花板和白橡木地板，营造出一种宁静、放松的氛围。这种极简主义的设计风格，不仅降低了建造的复杂性和成本，也赋予了空间一种纯粹的美感，突出了居住者个人物品在空间中的视觉作用。落地窗的运用，进一步增强了室内外的视觉联系，让自然光线和周围的景色成为室内空间的重要组成部分。这种对材料和空间的精简，体现了建筑师对“宁静”主题的深刻理解和独特表达。

创新技术与可持续设计的结合：除了设计美学，Whidbey Uparati House在技术和可持续性方面也展现出卓越的创新。该项目采用地面框架基础系统，取代了传统的混凝土基础，从而显著减少了碳足迹。微型桩技术的使用，不仅在结构上将房屋固定在地面上，也赋予了建筑一种“根植于土地”的视觉感受。此外，建筑师在设计中注重自然光线和通风的利用，减少了对能源的依赖。这种创新技术的应用和对可持续设计的追求，使得Whidbey Uparati House不仅是一座美丽的住宅，更是一个具有环保意识和前瞻性的建筑范例，体现了现代建筑设计的发展趋势。

建筑师提供的文字描述Whidbey Uparati漂浮在草地上，通过融入场地而不是在场地上表现自己，最大限度地减少了对自然景观的视觉和物理影响。接近时，草地植被围绕着一条蜿蜒的小路，沿着稳定的斜坡向上延伸到房子。这所房子是一个家庭静修所，用于冥想、建立联系和uparati——梵语中的“宁静”。
Text description provided by the architects. Floating above a meadow, Whidbey Uparati minimizes visual and physical impact on the natural landscape by blending into the site rather than asserting itself upon it. Upon approach, the meadow vegetation surrounds a winding path up a steady slope to the house. The house is a family retreat for meditation, bonding, and uparati – "stillness" in sanskrit.

Site Section

这座1880平方英尺的房子坐落在自然环境之上。草地上长满了青草，环绕着一座低调的雪松覆盖的建筑，窗户宽大，在听觉和视觉上将房子与周围的自然环境连接起来。庭院平面布局围绕着一个破碎的花岗岩露台，露台上有一个反射池、火坑和一棵Stewartia树。主人经常回到印度参加冥想静修。他们请建筑师马特·维特曼设计一个静修所，可以作为逃离城市生活的场所，也可以作为冥想沉思的场所和房屋。
The 1,880-square-foot house is perched above the natural surroundings. Meadow grasses and surround a muted cedar-clad building with generous windows, connecting the house audibly and visually to the surrounding nature. A courtyard plan layout surrounds a crushed granite patio with a reflecting pool, fire pit, and a single Stewartia tree. The owners often travel back home to India to partake in meditative retreats. They asked architect Matt Wittman to design a retreat that could serve as an escape from urban living and as site and house for meditative contemplation.

Floor Plan

这所房子由两间卧室、两间浴室、一间多功能室、一间客厅和一间用于公共活动的厨房组成。房子的透明度邀请居民共度时光，享受乡村背景，而房子位于地块最高处，可以欣赏到周围无用湾和奥林匹克山脉的全景。在温暖的季节，业主还可以享受宽敞的西向甲板。
The house consists of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a multi-purpose room, and a living room and kitchen for communal activities. The transparency of the house invites residents to spend time together and enjoy the rural background, while the house's location on the highest part of the lot allows for panoramic views of surrounding Useless Bay and the Olympic Mountains. During the warmer seasons, the owners can also enjoy a generous west facing deck.

Section

这所房子的体验始于从贝尔维尤出发的旅程。船主乘坐Mukilteo Clinton渡轮穿越普吉特湾，前往Whidbey岛乡村的偏远地区。车道把他们拉近了，蜿蜒成一个稳定的斜坡，穿过草地植被——蓝色燕麦草、墨西哥羽毛草、Adagio Maiden草——和夏季盛开的花朵——锥形花和鼠尾草首席景观设计师Jody Estes说：“我们想通过景观美化来‘重塑’场地。”。“清除入侵物种并制定森林恢复计划非常重要。”一条蜿蜒在五英亩土地周围的步行道。在未来的一个阶段，步行道将通往森林中的冥想亭。
The experience of the house starts with the journey from Bellevue. The owners cross the Puget Sound on the Mukilteo Clinton ferry and head into the outlands of rural Whidbey Island. The driveway draws them closer, winding up a steady slope, through meadow vegetation – Blue Oat Grasses, Mexican Feather Grasses, Adagio Maiden Grasses - and summer blooming flowers – Cone Flowers and Flowering Sage. "We wanted to 'rewild' the site through landscaping," says Jody Estes, the lead landscape designer. "It was important to remove invasive species and to create a plan for forest restoration." A walking path that meanders around the perimeter of the five-acre lot. In a future phase, the walking path will lead into the forest to a meditation pavilion.

在小路的尽头，入口楼梯将业主提升到房子的最高点。低矮的天花板在进入更宽敞的客厅和厨房之前会产生短暂的压缩感。再往里走，房子变得更加透明，落地窗勾勒出水景和山景。室内空间是对简单木材细节的研究——胶合板墙、雪松榫槽天花板和白橡木地板。面对有限的预算，Wittman Estes将房子设计得易于建造，缩短了施工时间和成本。维特曼说：“简单的木结构遵循4'网格。”。地板和屋顶采用现成的TJI框架，以12'和16'的间隔跨越合理的柱和墙顺序。
At the end of the path, entry stairs elevate the owners up into the house at its highest point. The low ceiling creates a moment of compression before stepping down into the more spacious living room and kitchen. Further in, the house becomes more transparent and floor-to-ceiling windows frame the views of water and mountains. The interior spaces are a study in simple wood details – plywood walls, cedar tongue and groove ceiling, and white oak floor. Facing a limited budget, Wittman Estes designed the house to be simple to construct, reducing the construction timeframe and cost. "The simple wood structure follows a 4' grid," says Wittman. The floors and roof are framed with off-the-shelf TJIs spanning a rational order of columns and walls on 12' and 16' intervals.

房屋由地面框架基础系统支撑，该系统消除了房屋基础的混凝土。与同等混凝土基础相比，这减少了77%的碳足迹。微型桩技术就像房子的根，在结构和视觉上将它固定在地面上。出于对电影的兴趣，客户希望房子能为室内外提供电影般的视觉效果。室内空间的顺序允许光影改变每个房间的视角和情绪，就像罗杰·迪金斯电影中的场景一样。室内色调以中性色调为基础，允许居民的物品创造色彩和视觉焦点的标点符号。
The house is supported by a Ground Frame foundation system that eliminates concrete for the foundation of the house. This reduces the carbon footprint by 77% relative to the equivalent concrete foundation. The micropile technology acts like roots for the house, anchoring it to the ground both structurally and visually. With an interest in film, the clients wanted the house to provide a cinematic visual composition both for the interior and the exterior. The sequence of the interior spaces allows for light and shadow to shift the perspective and mood of each room, like scenes in a Roger Deakins film. The interior palette draws on neutral tones as its base to allow for the residents' objects to create punctuation of color and visual focus.

这所房子是一个现代的度假胜地，与自然环境建立了冥想的联系。房子的材料色调和结构简单的安静性质使其最令人垂涎的品质能够被清晰地听到——在寂静中，我们可以听到大自然的声音。
The house is a contemporary retreat that offers a meditative connection with the natural surroundings. The quiet nature of the house's material palette and structural simplicity allows its most coveted quality to be heard loud and clear – in stillness we can hear nature speak.