何为内部？何为外部？这座小屋告诉你

Colorado小屋

Colorado Lodge / Terremoto Landscape + EARL + SheetrockLA

来自建筑事务所的描述：Colorado小屋是个关于设计、施工、友谊的实验性项目。建筑位于美国加州大熊湖一片2英亩的场地之中，建筑设计是对内与外的边界探索。

Text deion provided by the architects. The Colorado Lodge is an ongoing and iterative experiment in design, construction and friendship. Functionally speaking, it’s a collection of for-rent cabins situated on 2 acres of beautiful land in Big Bear, California. Conceptually speaking, it is an exploration into ways of being with / in / out / side nature.

该项目的发展历程如下：大约在两年前，建筑师首次接触该项目，建筑师的朋友购买了它。这座小屋的原有状况十分糟糕，但是地理位置很好，环境优美，看上去远离市区，但是其实距离并不遥远，这个项目便因此而生。

The annotated history of the project is as follows: About two years ago we first cross paths with the property and after thoroughly not thinking through the magnitude of the property and project, our dear friend purchases it. The cabins are in a terrible way, but the land is gorgeous and it’s uniquely situated in a way that it’s both pleasantly isolated but also close to town. The sparks are there and thus the romance begins.

建筑师的策略是保留小屋外立面，只涂上黑色的抹漆，而对于内部则采用了重建的策略。因此，全新的空间诞生在古朴的躯壳之中。在建筑内部，建筑师应用了极简主义的经济材料，结合了人工与自然的不同概念。

Our architectural approach / strategy is to leave the exterior facades of the cabins intact, neutralize them through painting them black, and then completely rebuild the interiors. A completely new thing inhabits the shell of an old thing. Within the interiors, we use a minimalist, cost-effective materials palette that riffs on notions of nature + artificiality.

胶合板是高度加工但却十分“自然”的材料，它和周围的树木看起来相互结合，在地面层，建筑师应用了看起来像小木条的油毡材质，而在外部的地面上则应用了小木条。那么何为内外呢？只需要通过一道门槛而得以区分。

Plywood, a highly processed but “natural” material, harkens to the forest and towering trees hovering just outside the building shell; the wild animal stares at the animal trapped in a cage at the zoo. For the ground plane surface of the cabins we use linoleum that looks like little sticks of mulch; the natural ground outside is dusted with little sticks of mulch. What is outside, what is inside? To inhabit a shelter is to cross a threshold, nothing more.

项目的景观策略则是“景观最小化”，建筑师通过栅栏来遮挡不够美观的元素，同时让建筑看起来更加丰富。这座建筑就是森林里的小房子，使用者可以在内外空间里自由感受。

Our landscape approach / strategy is to “landscape” as little as possible, because it’s a fool’s errand to garden in the woods. We build a long fence that blocks an undesirable view to a neighboring property and that also creates a compound-like quality to the property. The property is now a room within the forest; you’re inside, outside.

建筑师同样利用木质面板遮挡视野，这些面板位于森林的树木之中。在未来，建筑师还会利用一些简约的基础元素，例如露台、木板道路，给人们带来更多的使用体验。

We build wood partitions that reduce the visual presence of cars as little as possible, these screens float between trees and create previously invisible divisions. In the near future we will build simple, elemental amenities (decks, boardwalks) that don’t tell you what to do or how to live, more as abstract offerings to sit or lay on, look up at the trees, and breathe.