坐落在公牛围场中间的离网住宅，其灵感来自澳大利亚标志性的Akubra帽子。这个灵感是在与客户的第一次会议上产生的，他们的公牛农场位于塔姆沃思东南约50英里处。客户为他们的新家选址在一个缓坡上，在一片桉树林中，土地向东急剧下降到一个干燥的小溪床。从这个有利位置，客户指出了他们希望从新家欣赏到的风景。南面是 “耶拉岩”，东面是 “悬岩”，北面是穿过原生树丛的独特视野，西面是越过尘土飞扬的公牛围场到远处的起伏山丘的视野。基本上是一个惊人的360度全景。
Located in the middle of a bull paddock sits an off-grid home inspired by the iconic Australian Akubra hat. This inspiration came about at the first meeting with the clients on their bull farm, around 50mins southeast of Tamworth. The client had selected the site for their new home atop a gently sloping hill, amongst a grove of eucalypts, with the land falling sharply away to the east to a dry creek bed. From this vantage point, the clients pointed out the vistas they wanted to appreciate from their new home: “Yella-rock” to the south, “hanging-rock” to the east, a unique vista north through the grove of native trees and a vista west, over the dusty bull paddocks to the rolling hills beyond. Essentially an amazing 360 degree view all the way around.
正是在这一点上，这个项目的关键挑战之一出现了：如何创造低能耗、热舒适的住宅，以庆祝周围的景色。站长好奇地看着，想知道这个城市里的建筑师要做什么，这时我问他要了他的Akubra帽子。我把帽子倒过来，开始解释 “倒置的阿库布拉房子 “的概念。这个想法是，一个单一的大规模的屋顶形式，很像Akubra帽子的帽檐，悬在房子下面。屋顶将挡住所有夏天的阳光，但允许冬天的阳光温暖中央的热质量，这将形成房屋的脊柱，并收集雨水来运行房屋，所有的功能都在下面，庆祝每个方向的景色。
It was at this point that one of the key challenges for this project presented itself: how to create low energy, thermally comfortable home that celebrated views all around. The station manager was curiously watching on, wondering what this city-slicker Architect was going to do, when I asked him for his Akubra hat. Placing it upside down, I started to explain the concept of the “upside-down Akubra house”. The idea being, a single large scale roof form, much like the brim of the Akubra hat, overhanging the house below. The roof would block out all the summer sun, yet allow in the winter sun to warm the central thermal mass that would form the spine of the home as well as catching rainwater to run the house, all with a functional home underneath celebrating views in every direction.
在这次会议上，颠倒的阿库布拉房屋诞生了，这个房屋的屋顶是建筑占地面积的2.5倍，这个房屋自己产生和储存所有的能源，收集足够的水来运行房屋和处理自己的废物。如今，离网生活并不新鲜，但在这个受极端天气条件（包括目前的干旱）影响很大的偏远地区，离网生活是必要的。然而，使这个离网住宅与众不同的是，技术如何成为住宅的美学。
From this meeting, the Upside Down Akubra House was born, a house with a roof that is 2.5 times the size of the building footprint, a home that generates and stores all its own energy and collects enough water to run the house and treat its own waste. Living off-grid is not new these days, but necessary in this remote location, greatly affected by extreme weather conditions including the current drought. What makes this off-grid home unique, however, is how the technology has become the aesthetic of the home.
庆祝离网特征从 “简陋 “的车棚开始，尽管这个车棚的最高点为4.5米，占地面积为80平方米，但远非简陋。事实上，它是一个LG霓虹灯双面光伏的顶棚，这意味着从顶棚的底部可以看到太阳能电池，庆祝整个房子的供电技术。通过暴露太阳能电池板，这向参观者传达了融入设计的生态技术，并教育大家低环境影响的发电选择和能源的有效利用。
Celebrating the off-grid characteristics begins with the “humble” carport, although standing at 4.5m at the tallest point and covering an area of 80m2 this carport is far from humble. It is, in fact, a canopy of LG neon bi-facial photovoltaics, which means that the solar cells are visible from the underside of the canopy celebrating the technology that powers the whole house. Through exposing the solar panels this communicates to visitors the eco-technologies that are integrated into the design and educates all on low environmental impact power generation options and the efficient use of energy.
Architects: Alexander Symes Architect
Area: 195 m²
Year: 2019
Photographs: Barton Taylor
Manufacturers: Big Ass Fans, VELUX Commercial, Eco Outdoor, LG Electronics, Proclima, Stormtech, Viridian, Brink, Chazelles, Eziform, Ozzi Kleen, Pyrolave, Zego
Engineering:Ascent Engineering
Collaborators:Blue Eco Homes
City:Nundle
Country:Australia