当呈现在街道立面时，Datum House在屋顶形式和材料参考方面借鉴了邻近的房产。该项目从周围环境和背景中获得灵感，并通过对传统维多利亚式立面的现代诠释，形成了一个深思熟虑的结果和街道整合。我们一开始就根据客户的要求，为一个成长中的五口之家做了大量的设计。我们的家用集装箱围护结构来自于维多利亚式别墅轮廓的简单挤压，放置在狭窄的坡地上，以建立一个明确的基准。其结果是由周围环境、所需的舒适度以及与现有场地限制的谈判来操纵信封的结果。

When presented at the street elevation, Datum House borrows from the neighboring properties in roof form and material references. The project takes inspiration from its surroundings and context and reinterprets its findings through a contemporary take on a traditional Victorian elevation, resulting in a considered outcome and street integration. We started off with our client’s extensive brief for a home that had to house a growing family of 5. Our domestic container envelope was derived from a simple extrusion of the Victorian cottage silhouette, placed onto the narrow sloping site to set up a defined datum. The outcome is a result of the envelope being manipulated by the surrounding context, the required amenity and its negotiation with the existing site constraints.

分层安排是对坡地条件和相邻住宅的场地限制的回应。该项目被精心安排并包含在挤压的围护结构中，以满足重新制定的侧退要求，并进一步将该建筑正式融入其环境。最终的结果是关于房子里的气氛和空间，以及这些空间与环境的联系。

The split-level arrangement was a response to the conditions of the sloping site and the site constraints of the neighbouring dwellings. The program has been carefully arranged and contained within the extruded envelope to respond to the rescode requirements for side setbacks and furthermore to formally integrate the building into its context. The final outcome is as much about the atmosphere and spaces within the house as it is about the connection of those spaces to its context and surroundings.

从建筑围护结构中减去一个体量以创造一个位于中心的庭院的想法，是为房屋提供自然光并为房间提供视觉便利的策略。以黑色金属护罩的形式插入围护结构中，建立了与视觉和自然光便利性相关的开口。这些时刻打开了我们的家用集装箱围护结构，揭示了外部环境的元素。一个大的枢轴窗将日间床延伸到后院，将窗户变成一个座位和阅读平台。

The idea to subtract a volume from the envelope of the building to create a centrally located courtyard evolved as a strategy to offer the house access to natural light and to provide the rooms with visual amenity. Insertions into the envelope in the form of the black metal shrouds establish openings that relate to both visual and natural light amenity. These moments open our domestic container envelope to reveal elements of the context beyond. A large pivot window extends the daybed into the rear yard to transform the window into a seating and reading platform.

一个中央庭院呈现在入口处。踏入入口处的凹槽，客户可以选择左转进入主生活区，直走进入中央庭院，或者右转，走5步进入铺有绿色地毯的休闲区，或者走14步进入地下的儿童卧室区。Datum住宅分为3层，地面层是开放式的生活空间，线性的厨房布置将餐厅和生活空间联系在一起，南边是后院，北边是中央庭院。第1层包含休闲/书房、欧式洗衣房、主卧室和套间，地下有3间儿童卧室、浴室和卫生间。

A central courtyard is presented at the entry. Stepping into the entry alcove the clients are presented with a choice to turn left and enter into the main living quarters, to go straight and access the central courtyard or to turn right to take 5 steps up into the green carpeted retreat or 14 steps down into the lower ground kids bedroom quarters. Datum house is divided into 3 levels, ground level housing the open plan living with a linear kitchen arrangement tying together the dining and living spaces, flanked by the backyard to the south and the central courtyard to the north. Level 1 contains the retreat/study, European laundry, main bedroom and ensuite and lower ground houses 3 kids bedrooms, bathroom & WC.

Architects: FIGR Architecture & Design
Area : 190 m²
Year : 2016
Photographs :Tom Blachford & Kate Ballis
Manufacturers : Radial Timbers
Builder : Grundella Constructions
Structural Engineer : Meyer Consulting
Building Surveyor : Michel Group Building Surveyors
Styling : Ruth Welsby
Architects In Charge : Michael Artemenko, Adi Atic
City : Ascot Vale
Country : Australia