在灿烂的日光下，盐点屋有一种空灵的存在，就像海市蜃楼一样难以捉摸和失重，其边缘似乎溶入了周围的森林景观。然而，随着光线的变化，房子也在改变自己，从薄纱般的近乎透明转变为不透明的、安静的纪念碑。也许更难能可贵的是：建筑以普通材料和简单体量的适度调色板实现了这些诗意的品质。

In brilliant daylight, the Salt Point House has an ethereal presence as elusive and weightless as a mirage, its edges seemingly dissolving into the surrounding forested landscape. Yet with changing light, the house transforms itself, shifting by turns from gossamer and nearly transparent to opaque and quietly monumental. Perhaps even more remarkable: the architecture achieves these poetic qualities with a modest palette of ordinary materials and simple volumes.

在最基本的条件下，房子是一个开放式的、涂有油漆的雪松箱，内衬是枫木胶合板，两面覆盖着穿孔不锈钢的波纹屏。它的简介几乎不可能更简陋。客户是纽约市的一对夫妇，对他们以前的周末度假地–他们曾经希望购买的乡村狩猎小屋–的关键要素充满了幻想，他们希望有一个小型的、舒适的、容易维护的、有两个卧室的度假地，有一个开放的生活区和一个带屏风的门廊。当然，没有异国情调的要求，但在这个纯粹的谦虚和经济限制的委托中，建筑师发现有机会提炼出形式、比例、材料和细节的本质。灵感也来自于场地–在纽约哈德逊谷的一块9英亩的林地上，沿着一个溢出小瀑布的池塘，有一片田园诗般的空地。

In the most basic terms, the house is an open-ended, painted-cedar box, lined in maple plywood and overlaid on two sides with corrugated screens of perforated, stainless steel. Its brief could hardly have been more humble. The clients, a New York City couple, wistful for the key elements of their former weekend getaway—the rustic hunting shack they had once hoped to buy—wanted a small, comfortable, easily maintained, two-bedroom retreat with an open living area and a screened-in porch. Certainly, no exotic requirements, but in the sheer modesty and economic restraint of this commission, the architects found opportunity to distill form, proportion, materiality, and detail to their essence. Inspiration also came, abundantly, from the site—an idyllic clearing on a wooded, nine-acre parcel in New York’s Hudson Valley, along a pond that spills into a small waterfall.

在外面，涟漪状的屏幕，不锈钢的面纱，同时隐藏和揭示，将读数过滤到景观和结构的纯粹体积，其固体，阴影和闪烁的空隙。既深又浅的层次，既透明又不透明，穿孔的金属斗篷记录了周围环境在季节性变化中的柔和反射。甚至连屏风式门廊的细节也是极简主义的，仿佛只是划定了一个巨大的、立方体的空气体积。这是一个接受但又超越了单纯的胶合板盒子的建筑，在悄悄地演绎平凡的崇高的同时，也表达了皮肤的非物质化。

Outside, the rippled screens, veils of stainless steel, simultaneously hide and reveal, filtering readings out to the landscape and in to the structure’s pure volumes, its solids, shadows, and flickering voids. At once deep and lightly layered, both transparent and opaque, the perforated metal cloak registers muted reflections of the surroundings in seasonal flux. Even the screened-in porch is detailed with minimalist precision, as if simply delineating a great, cubic volume of air. This is an architecture that accepts yet transcends the sheer simplicity of the plywood box, expressing and dematerializing the skin as it quietly renders the prosaic sublime.

Architects: Thomas Phifer and Partners
Area : 204 m²
Year : 2007
Photographs :Scott Frances
City：SALT POINT
Country：UNITED STATES