Sky Crown Terraces是由Bercy Chen工作室在德克萨斯州奥斯汀设计和建造的两座相同且相邻的房屋。整体形式、庭院和可居住的平屋顶唤起了现代主义所诠释的美国西南部的乡土气息。受Michael Heizer、Eduardo Chillida和Jorge Yazpik的雕塑启发，体积减法的策略增强了房屋的基本概念的物质性，即灰泥盒子上有钢板。乡土的后果与正交抽象的优雅一起，用赤裸裸的简单材料覆盖，丝毫不影响德克萨斯山地的低调景观和原始气候的特殊乐趣。

Sky Crown Terraces are two identical and adjacent houses designed and built by Bercy Chen Studio in Austin, Texas. The monolithic form, courtyards, and habitable flat roofs evoke the vernacular of the American Southwest interpreted by Modernism. Inspired by the sculpture of Michael Heizer, Eduardo Chillida, and Jorge Yazpik, the strategy of volumetric subtraction enhances the materiality of the basic conception of the houses as stucco boxes crowned by steel panels. The consequentiality of the vernacular together with the elegance of orthogonal abstraction clad in nakedly simple materials do nothing to distract from the peculiar delights of the understated landscape and raw climate of the Texas Hill Country.

强调性的二分法
德州明亮的阳光吸引了奥斯汀的轻盈感和充满活力的户外文化，在鲜明的阴影中找到了躲避酷热的喘息机会。外墙将灰泥的缓慢凉爽与钢铁的导热性和生产所带来的灼热并列在一起。在底层，灰泥外墙围绕着阴暗的凹陷孔洞，在空间上加强了其材料的重力和厚度，与覆盖上层的连续钢板的薄度形成对比。与钢材齐平，上层的窗户自由地漂浮在墙面的边缘，进一步使它们非物质化。

Emphatic dichotomy
The bright Texas sun invites a lightness of being and a vigorous outdoor culture in Austin that finds in stark shadows sheltered respite from the intense heat. The exterior walls juxtapose the slow coolness of stucco with the searing heat associated with the thermal conductivity and production of steel. On the ground level, the exterior stucco walls return in plan around shadowy recessed apertures to reinforce spatially the gravity and thickness of their material in contrast with the thinness of the continuous band of steel panels that clad the upper level. Flush with the steel, the windows of the upper level freely float to the edges of the wall planes, further dematerializing them.

自然渗透到室内生活
四个从地面延伸到天空的空隙在每个房子的四面都有裂缝，将自然深入到房子中心的双高入口前庭。通过由这四条自然峡谷组成的双高玻璃墙，来自四个万向的光线进入室内。每个红心方向都有自己的光线调色板，随着太阳穿过天空而改变颜色和强度。

Nature penetrating interior life
Four voids extending from ground to sky cleave each of the four sides of each house, bringing nature deep into the double-height entry vestibule at the heart of the house. Through double-height glass walls framed by these four canyons of nature enters light from the four cardinal directions. Each cardinal direction deploys its own palette of light, shifting in color and intensity as the sun courses across the sky.

室外的房间
四条峡谷中最浅的一条通向一个16’x22’的庭院，这个庭院是从四边形体的一个角上雕刻出来的。其中一栋房子的院子从周围的景观中下沉，而另一栋房子的地势则升高了。在这两种情况下，都有一段楼梯将其直接连接到19’x31’的屋顶平台，该平台占据了峡谷划定的一个体积象限的整个上半部分。

Rooms outdoors
The shallowest of the four canyons leads to a 16’ x 22’ courtyard carved from one of the corners of the quadrilateral mass. The courtyard is sunken from the surrounding landscape in one of the houses, while its grade is elevated in the other. In both cases, a flight of stairs connects it directly to a 19’ x 31’ roof deck that occupies the entire upper half of one of the volumetric quadrants delineated by the canyons.

天空的加冕
屋顶平台被定义为一个室外的房间，它延续了外墙上半部分的钢包层，作为相同材料的穿孔屏。虽然落地窗为室内提供了无障碍的水平视野，但屏风将注意力引向上方的宇宙舞蹈。从某些距离和角度看，它们似乎溶入了天空，不同的不透明度调节了周围树木和山丘的视野。

Coronation of the heavens
The roof deck is defined as an outdoor room by the continuation of the steel cladding the upper half of the exterior walls as perforated screens of the same material. While floor-to-ceiling windows provide unimpeded horizontal views from the interior, the screens direct attention to the cosmic dance above. Appearing to dissolve into the sky from certain distances and vantages, their varying opacity modulates the view of the surrounding trees and hills.

德克萨斯州的 “和风细雨”(Wabi-Sabi)
钢板经过预氧化处理，允许对下面的高质量、纯净的白色灰泥进行有控制的染色，将两种材料融合在一起，形成条纹状的颜色，就像在空白的画布上画上周围德克萨斯州山地悬崖上的矿物沉积物一样。

“Texas Wabi-Sabi”
The steel panels are pre-oxidized to permit controlled staining of the high-quality, pristine white stucco below them, fusing the two materials in streaks of color, as if painting a blank canvas in drips of mineral deposits as found on the cliffs of the surrounding Texas Hill Country.

Architects: Bercy Chen Studio
Area: 3020 ft²
Year: 2017
Photographs: Andrea Calo, Stephen Renard
Manufacturers: Cosentino, Hansgrohe, Ann Sacks, Bosch, Lueders Limestone, Metris S, ProSource Wholesale Floorcoverings, Santa Rosa, Soho 68
Lead Architects: Thomas Bercy, Calvin Chen, Dan Loe, Sasha Doo
Structural Engineering: JM Structural Engineering
Contractor And Builder:Bercy Chen Studio
Text:Saul Jerome E. San Juan
Contractor & Builder:Bercy Chen Studio
City:Austin
Country:United States