位于安大略省多伦多市Pape和Danforth社区的Charcoal House，欺骗性地呈现出一个喧闹的盒子。其外墙上随机的方形窗户和建筑角落里隐藏的入口门，这些元素不仅让人很难将该建筑与独栋别墅联系起来，而且还欺骗了人们的眼睛，使房子的规模被扭曲，人们可能无法猜测里面有多少层。
Charcoal House, situated in Pape and Danforth neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, is deceivingly presenting a raucous box. The randomly patterned square windows on its façade and the hidden entrance door at the corner of the building are elements that not only make it difficult to associate the building with a single family house, but they also trick the eye to an extend where the scale of the house is distorted and one might not be able to guess the number of floors inside.
虽然整体的外墙，黑色的砖块覆盖，说明了一个繁荣的建筑，但黑盒子里的通风空间揭示了其功能空间的真实身份。正如建筑师所描述的那样，这所房子就像一个 “椰子”，外面是黑暗和坚硬的，里面是白色和美味。
Although the monolithic façade, the black brick cladding, states an asperous architecture, the airy spaces within the black box reveals the true identity of its functional spaces. The house as the architect describes, resembles a “coconut” which is dark and hard on the outside, white and delicious on the inside.
虽然它成功地试图减少与前街的物理联系，为建筑创造了一种奇异的孤独感–例如前门，它被小心翼翼地隐藏在外部走廊内，并融化在建筑转角处的立面上–但这个约2100平方英尺的木结构单户住宅突然转变为一个动态的生活空间，仔细关注每个房间的开口和自然光，并通过创造意外和辉煌的外部开口再次欺骗了人们与外界脱离的直接印象。
While it’s successful attempts to minimize physical connection to the front street creates a bizarre solitude for the building-such as the front door, which is carefully hidden inside an exterior corridor and melts into the façade around the corner of the building- this wood-framed single-family house of about 2,100 square feet suddenly transforms into a dynamic living space with a careful attention to openings and natural lights in each room, and once again deceives one’s immediate impression of disengagement from the outside by creating unexpected and glorious openings to the outside.
炭屋坐落在一块小的土地上，平面很窄。它不是一个宽敞的房子，但一个寻求另类生活空间的前卫思想，也许是在寻找一种效果的改变。现代住宅就是要有现代的生活方式，而木炭屋就是试图为多伦多人提供这种机会。
The Charcoal House sits on a small lot with a narrow plan. It is not a spacious house to live in, but an avant-garde mind that seeks an alternative living space is perhaps looking for a change in effects. A modern house is about a modern living style, and the Charcoal House is an attempt to provide that chance for Torontonians.
Architects: Atelier RZLBD
Area : 2100 m²
Year : 2010
Photographs :borXu Design
City：TORONTO
Country：Canada