Keep House是一对夫妇居住的地方，他们在家工作，并养育他们的两个孩子。他们的街角街区是一个楔形，其圆形的边缘面向街对面的公园，其后花园达到了一个三角形。该街区从街道上抬高，使其在整个临街面和公园里都能看到。他们需要一个能将公园和花园与家庭联系起来的房子，但又能保护他们在这个固有的可视地点的隐私。
Keep House is where a couple lives, work from home, and raises their two teenagers. Their corner block is a wedge shape, its rounded edge facing a park across the street, its back garden culminating in a triangle. The block is elevated from the street, placing it on view all along its extensive street frontage and from the park. They needed a house that would connect the parkland and garden to the family, yet guard their privacy on the inherently visible site.
对他们来说，Keep House是永远的。它是他们自己的，它使他们得到了庇护和安全。人们说你的家就是你的城堡，我们经常讨论中世纪城堡的想法：城堡内的塔楼作为一个避难所，以防敌人渗透到城堡的其他部分。同样地，Keep House将住宅的隐私从其正面的公共性中保护起来。当然，这也是对流行的 "保持 "或 "永远 "房子的想法的一种发挥。
For them, Keep House is forever. It’s theirs to keep, and it keeps them cocooned and safe. People say your home is your castle, and we often discussed ideas of the medieval castle keep: the tower within a castle compound fortified as a refuge in case enemies penetrate the rest of the castle. Similarly, Keep House shields the home’s privacy from the publicness of its frontage. Of course, it’s also a play on the popular idea of a “keep” or “forever” house.
在试验了许多将房子安置在场地上的安排后，我们决定采用一个细长的形状，弯曲成一个方形的C，基本上形成三个翅膀。它从弯曲的正面向后退去，紧贴着场地的对角线边界，在后面留下一个小的、避风的三角形花园。C形的房子围绕着一个原生的花园庭院折叠，所以房间可以看到花园，然后穿过对面的房间。院子里有阳台，模糊了花园和室内的过渡。这是一个固有的澳大利亚景观，与对面修剪整齐的欧洲公园形成了鲜明对比。
After experimenting with many arrangements for fitting the house onto the site, we settled on an elongated shape bent into a squared-off C, essentially forming three wings. It’s set back from the curved frontage and pressed against the site’s diagonal boundaries, leaving a small, wind-sheltered triangular garden at the back. The C-shaped house folds around a native garden courtyard so the rooms have views into the garden and then through to the rooms opposite. Verandas line the courtyard, blurring the transition between garden and interior. It’s an inherently Australian landscape and a counterpoint to the manicured European park opposite.
不同的景观区之间存在着私密性的过渡：前面可见的草坪和蔬菜区，原生花园庭院，以及从媒体空间进入的后三角区，其四面都有围栏。Keep House展示了建筑如何在完全属于内部的东西和乐意透露给路人的东西之间探索隐私的深浅。它是为一个家庭量身定做的，他们需要有相聚的空间，也需要有分离的空间。内部和外部的生活空间本质上都是澳大利亚的，正如罗宾-博伊德在谈到其他房屋时所说的，它们 "尽可能简单、直接和纯粹地做基本的事情"。
There is a transition of privateness across the varied landscape zones: the visible lawn and veggie patch out the front, the native garden courtyard, and the back triangle accessed from the media space, which is fenced on all sides. Keep House shows how architecture can explore shades of privateness between what is totally inner and what is gladly revealed to passers-by. It’s tailored for a family that needs spaces to come together, and spaces to be apart. The spaces for living, both inside and outside are intrinsically Australian and, as Robyn Boyd said about other houses, they “do the essential thing as simply and directly and purely as possible”.
Architects: BKK Architects
Area : 300 m²
Year : 2021
Photographs :Tom Blachford
Manufacturers : Grazia and Co
Lead Architects : Simon Knott, Vaughan Howard
Interior Design : Elizabeth Mason
Landscape Design : Haydn Barling Landscapes
Construction : Grenville Architectural Construction
City : Glen Iris
Country : Australia
