明尼多萨之家位于马尼托巴省西部风景如画的土地上，它的设计是为了与周围农村的自然元素接触。一系列的轴线贯穿了整个房子，组织了空间和程序，交错了生活区域，划分了更多的私人空间。这些轴线结合了全高玻璃，模糊了外部和内部条件之间的障碍，通过精心设计的视图，可以感觉到内部空间无限地向外延伸到景观中（反之亦然）。双层高度的空间体量和开放的平面图在一楼和二楼之间创造了一种动态的关系，吸引了人们的好奇心，激活了居民在许多空间中的联系。

Located on a rise in the land in the picturesque landscape of western Manitoba, the Minnedosa House is designed to engage with the natural elements of the surrounding rural countryside. A series of axes throughout the house organize the spaces and programs, interlacing the living areas and dividing the more private spaces. These axes incorporate full height glazing to blur the barrier between the exterior and interior conditions, perceptibly extending the interior spaces infinitely outward into the landscape (or vice versa) through carefully framed views. Double height volumes of space and an open floor plan create a dynamic relationship between the first and second floors, inviting curiosity and activating connections between inhabitants throughout many spaces.

这座房子的设计是为了与一个年轻的家庭一起成长，材料的选择和加工不仅要经得起时间和使用，而且要庆祝它。整个房子采用了一种克制的调色板，包括雪松护墙板、涂油的水曲柳地板、抛光的混凝土、原始钢材和胡桃木硬木。雪松护墙板有一天会成熟为柔和的银色，原钢会被氧化，给它的表面带来新的色调和纹理。水曲柳地板和胡桃木楼梯踏板上的油饰将被刮擦并优雅地磨损，随着时间的推移，揭示出游戏和行动的轨迹。

The house is designed to age alongside a young family, and the materials were selected and finished to not only withstand time and use but to celebrate it. A restrained palette is woven throughout the house and features cedar siding, oiled ash floors, polished concrete, raw steel, and walnut hardwoods. The cedar siding will one day mature to a soft silver color, and the raw steel will oxidize, imparting new hues and texture to its surface. The oiled finish on the ash floors and walnut stair treads will be scuffed and worn gracefully, revealing paths of play and actions over time.

通过这些材料，房子的外观将随着时间的推移而改变，在其表面的标记和铜锈中捕捉到家庭居住的故事。当这些材料组合在一起时，设计-建造的独特方法在项目的细节中显示出来。这种方法结合了当代建筑实践的知识和尖端的制造技术，以及通过提出问题和构思解决方案而产生的严格的设计方法。这鼓励设计和施工在整个过程中不断地、循环地相互启发，以创造出高度有意的、详细的和精心制作的项目。

Through these materials, the house’s appearance will change over the years, capturing the story of the family’s inhabitation in the markings and patina of its surfaces. As these materials come together, the unique approach design-built takes to both design and construction is revealed in the details of the project. This approach combines knowledge of contemporary construction practices and cutting-edge fabrication technologies with a rigorous approach to design borne of asking questions and conceptualizing solutions. This encourages design and construction to continually and cyclically inform one another throughout the entire process to create highly intentional, detailed, and crafted projects.

这种方法的例子在整个项目中随处可见，也许在楼梯上体现得最为突出。楼梯的典型结构要求已经被拆解，重新检查，并重新组装，以参考系统在穿越时施加的力量，以及每个步骤的固定方式。穿孔的原钢板引导着大部分的动作，扩散自然光，延伸出雕刻的扶手，并与每个涂油的胡桃木踏板相交。

Examples of this approach are speckled throughout the project and perhaps manifested most spectacularly in the staircase. The typical structural requirements of a staircase have been disassembled, re-examined, and reassembled to refer to the forces exerted on the system as it is traversed, and to the way each step is held in place. Perforated raw steel panels direct most of the action, diffusing natural light, extending a carved handrail, and intersecting each of the oiled walnut treads.

这些面板夹住薄薄的钢条悬挂在天花板上，使整个系统完全脱离地面，以庆祝空间的垂直过渡。通过模糊设计师和建筑商之间的界限，”设计-建造 “在整个项目中从概念一直追踪到执行，放大了材料加工、并列、组合或固定的方式的表达，以庆祝细节本身的构造质量。

The panels clamp thin steel bars to hang from the ceiling, holding the entire system entirely off the floor in a gesture to celebrate the vertical transition through space. By blurring the line between designer and builder, design-built traces ideas from concept all the way to execution throughout the project, magnifying the expression of the way materials are worked, juxtaposed, combined, or fastened to celebrate the tectonic qualities of the details themselves.

Architects : Design-Built
Area : 2245 ft²
Year : 2019
Photographs :Stationpoint Photographic, Matthew Sawatzky
Manufacturers : Silex
Structural Engineering : Hanuschak Consultants Inc.
Lead Designer : Clayton Salkeld
Lead Designer, Project Manager : Stefan Kroeker
Additonal Design : Braden Funk
City : Minnedosa
Country : Canada