CASA31_4 Room House

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Architect-owners Caroline di Costa and Adrian Iredale worked with the two other parnters in Iredale Pedersen Hook (IPH) on a four-year renovation and extension of their 1936 Queen Anne Federation House in Perth. CASA31_4 Room House is the result. The original house appears untouched from the front while the extension at the back is extrovert, complex and challenging. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: This renovation is as much about expressing spatial, emotional, historical and political ideas as it is about creating more room for a family. The four new rooms are: a room the the sky; a room to the interior; a room to the garden; and a room to the horizon. The new rooms literally preserve and reinterpret the past - a former roof becomes a floor, roof tiles become a musical score on a fence, a grandmother's old sliding door becomes an amber stained glass window - and create new connections with the site itself. The 'horizon' room' is cooled with a mechanism that reinterprets the 19th century 'Coolgardie Safe' a low-tech refrigeration system used by Western Australian miners. The project extends IPH's exploration of sustainability and with buildings that enhance the cultural, social and spiritual concerns of their inhabitants. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: CASA31_4 Room House was recognised twice in Australian Institute of Architects Western Australia chapter awards (2014). It won the Sustainable Architecture Award and it was commended in the Small Project Architecture Awards category. It won the Residential Best of Category award, International Interior Design Association (2013) Global Excellence Awards and the Best of State Awards (WA) for Residential Design at the Australian Interior Design Awards 2014. The project has been published on the cover of News Limited's weekend Home magazine (9 Feb 2014); magazine (17 April 2014); and Designboom architecture (14 April 2014).研究背景：业主建筑师卡罗琳·迪·科斯塔（Caroline di Costa）与阿德里安·艾雷德尔斯（Adrian Iredale），携手艾雷德尔斯·佩德森·胡克建筑事务所（Iredale Pedersen Hook，简称IPH）的另外两位合伙人，耗时四年翻修并扩建了他们位于珀斯的1936年安妮女王式联邦住宅，最终成果即为CASA31_4 Room House。该住宅从外立面看几乎未曾改动，而背面的扩建部分则醒目灵动、结构复杂且极具设计挑战性。 研究贡献：本次翻修不仅为家庭拓展了居住空间，更承载了空间、情感、历史与政治层面的理念表达。新增的四个空间分别为：天域之室、内省之室、庭园之室与地平线之室。新建空间切实留存并重新诠释了历史遗存——原屋顶被改造为室内地板，屋顶瓦片化作围栏上的乐谱纹样，祖母遗留的老式推拉门被改造为琥珀色彩色玻璃窗，同时与场地建立了全新的联结。其中“地平线之室”采用了借鉴19世纪“库尔加迪保险箱（Coolgardie Safe）”的降温机制，该装置是西澳大利亚矿工曾广泛使用的低技术制冷系统。本项目延续了IPH对可持续建筑的探索，打造了能够呼应居住者文化、社交与精神需求的建筑作品。 研究意义：CASA31_4 Room House曾两度斩获澳大利亚建筑师协会西澳分会奖项（2014年）：其一为可持续建筑奖，另一项则在小型项目建筑奖类别中获得表彰。此外，该项目还荣获国际室内设计协会2013年全球卓越奖住宅类最佳奖项，以及2014年澳大利亚室内设计奖西澳州住宅设计最佳奖项。本项目曾登上新闻集团旗下《周末家居》杂志封面（2014年2月9日）、另一本专业杂志（2014年4月17日）以及Designboom建筑板块（2014年4月14日）。