几乎每个我构思的设计背后都有一个故事。很多时候，这个故事是关于巧合的，甚至是一个最终被证明是成功的失败。一般来说，失败被归咎于命运，但实际上，成功也是命运的结果，至少我的是。绿房子 “就是一个例子。我们需要在RAG大楼的土地上实现新建住房，以便完成预算，最好是在小块土地上实现大面积的房屋，因为这样可以获得很大的收益。

There is a story behind nearly every design I conceive. Very often the story is about coincidence or even a failure that ultimately turns out to be a success. Generally speaking, failures are blamed on fate but, in practice, successes are also the consequence of fate, or at least mine are. The Green House is an example of this. We needed to realize new-build housing on the land of the RAG building in order to close the budget, and preferably houses with a large floor area on a small plot because that would yield a great deal.

然而，第一批RAG买家立即明确表示，他们并不真正欣赏这些房子，无论多么漂亮，都被放在他们的眼皮底下。因此，我们立即将这些极好的房子扔进了垃圾桶，以便制定新的计划。谁知道呢，也许什么时候我们又会把它们捞出来。

However, the first RAG buyers immediately made it clear that they did not really appreciate these houses, however beautiful, being placed right under their noses. So we immediately consigned these superb homes to the rubbish bin in order to create new plans. Who knew, maybe we would fish them back out again sometime.

幸运的是，一个更好的计划取代了它们：两个绿屋，灵感来自于RAG大楼的住房。这意味着住在一楼，有一个朝南的屋顶平台；大而宽敞，绿色，阳光充足，现代，工业，光，和各方面都很开放。为了保护RAG大楼屋顶平台的无障碍视野，新住宅将沉入地下。因此，这些房屋将是分层的，地面上的睡眠区将低于地面一米。通过这种分层建筑的建立，作为汽车港和储藏区屋顶的露台将比一楼的客厅和厨房高一米。厨房的台面将在视觉上延续到屋顶露台，这样室外和室内就有了更明确的联系。

Luckily a much better plan has come in their place: two Green Houses inspired by the housing in the RAG building. That means living on the first floor with a south-facing roof terrace; large, spacious, green, sunny, modern, industrial, light, and open in all aspects. To safeguard the unobstructed view from the roof terraces of the RAG building, the new homes are to be sunk into the ground. Consequently, the houses will be split-level and the ground floor with the sleeping quarters will be one metre below ground level. Through the creation of this split-level building, the terrace, which will be the roof of the car port and storage area, will be one metre higher than the living room and kitchen on the first floor. The counter tops in the kitchen will continue visually in the roof terrace so that outdoors and indoors are more explicitly connected.

虽然RAG建筑在一个屋顶下提供了10个家庭的空间，但绿色房屋是一个单户独立的房子。当我们考虑到哪种材料可以与RAG建筑的黄色石头保持一致或形成对比时，这些房子就变成了绿色。 我们选择了对比：现在，在明亮的黄色砖块旁边将有两个较小的绿色建筑。然而，绿房子的轮廓将与RAG建筑的轮廓一致，因为这些房子也将有RAG建筑以前使用的屋顶平台。因此，RAG建筑的轮廓将反映在绿屋中。

While the RAG building offers space for 10 homes under one roof, the Green House is a single-family detached house. The houses became green once we had considered which material would be in keeping with or rather in contrast to the yellow stone of the RAG building. We chose for contrast: now there will be two smaller green buildings alongside the bright yellow brick block. However the outline of the Green House will be consistent with that of the RAG building because the houses will also have the roof terraces previously utilized in the RAG building. Therefore the silhouette of the RAG building will be mirrored in the Green House.

我们想把RAG建筑不仅作为设计和生活方式的灵感来源，也作为建筑方法的灵感来源。在今天，如何能以一种务实和成本效益高的方式，建造一个具有与飞利浦工程师在50年代在Strijp R上建造建筑物时一样的工业外观的房子？我们的解决方案是一个具有固定尺寸的混凝土建筑系统，预制件和一个灵活的平面图。窗户与外墙完全吻合，在一个固定的框架内，并将以这样的方式放置，它们将提供最大的光线和视野，而不会相互俯视。每栋房子的玻璃数量将是现有法律规定的最低限度的三倍，但同时隐私也将得到保障。除了一楼的生活空间、屋顶露台和绿色的外观，建筑还将采用本身就很美的材料，如水泥、木材和玻璃。楼梯位于建筑的中心位置，所以布局非常实用，可以根据任何人的意愿进行调整。

We wanted to use the RAG building not only as a source of inspiration for the design and way of living but also as inspiration for the construction method. How would it be possible these days to build, in a pragmatic and cost efficient way, a house with the same industrial look as that created by the Philips engineers when they built the buildings on Strijp R in the fifties? Our solution was a concrete building system with fixed sizes, prefabricated parts and a flexible floor plan. The windows fit exactly into the façade, in a fixed framework, and will be placed in such a way that they will offer maximum light and view without overlooking each other. The amount of glass in each house will be nearly three times the minimum required according to existing legislation, yet at the same time privacy will be safeguarded. Aside from the first-floor living, the roof terrace and the green exterior, the building will also be characterized by materials that are in themselves already beautiful, such as cement, wood and glass. The staircase is in the heart of the building so the layout is extremely functional and can be tailored to anyone’s wishes.

Architects : Eek en Dekkers
Area : 408 m²
Year : 2017
Photographs :Thomas Mayer
Manufacturers : Kingspan Insulated Panels
Contractor : Bouwbedrijf van Gerven
Building Engineer : Team 42
Structural Engineer : JV2 bouwadvies
Architects In Charge : Piet Hein Eek, Iggie Dekkers
City : Eindhoven
Country : The Netherlands